HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF THE JAPANESE CIVIL CODE

众所周知，前日本民法典是以法国民法典为蓝本，以布瓦索纳德的草案为基础编纂的。然后，在经历了所谓的“法典化之争”之后，日本民法典是参照德国民法典草案编纂的。因此，通过对日本民法典中的原则和规则进行仔细的考察，可以发现，这些原则和规则来自于可以追溯到罗马法的欧洲民法传统。本课题的每位研究者都对日本民法典中的原则和规则的起源和发展进行了研究。2010年9月26日，在福冈市召开了“日本民法典的世纪及其国际背景下的历史”国际研讨会。1998年9月3日我们与6名德国学者和4名法国学者一起，从不同的角度对日本民法典与欧洲民法传统进行了比较，并计划在1999年11月之前以日文版和外文版在本次研讨会上发表。

It is well known that the former Japanese Civil Code had been codified based on Boissonade's draft modeled on the French Code civil. Then, after going through so-called "Controversy about the codification", the Japanese Civil Code, as it stands, is codified with referring the drafts of the German Civil code. Therefore, on close examinations of the principles and rules adopted in the Japanese Civil Code, it appears that they come from the European tradition in the civil law, which goes back to the roman law.Each investigators of our project worked on the origin and development of the principles and rules adopted in the Japanese Civil Code. And we conducted the international symposium on the subject of "A Century of the Japanese Civil Code Its History in International Context" in Fukuoka from Sept. 9 for three days in 1998. With 6 German and 4 French scholars, we compared the Japanese Civil Code with the European tradition in the civil law from diverse viewpoints.We plan to publish our study in this symposium by November 1999 both in the Japanese edition and the foreign languages version.