American and Continental European Ways of Legal Thinking on Constitutional Adjudication

通过对美国和德国宪法审查方式的整合与调和，构建一个适合于分析、理解并最终批判日本最高法院判决的框架：对于具有宪法预定内容的权利，审查分两步进行;第一步，借助于德国的“Rechtsbereich”和“Eingriff”概念确定权利的限制，第二步，按照美国的审查方式重新表述为“普通审查”，证明限制的正当性。

Constructing a framework appropriate for analyzing, understanding, and eventually critiquing the decisions of the Japanese Supreme Court, through integration and conciliation of the American and German ways of constitutional scrutiny, as follows : concerning the rights which have the constitutionally predefined contents the scrutiny proceeds in two steps ; in the first step the limitation of right is ascertained with the help of German concepts of "Rechtsbereich" and "Eingriff", and in the second step the limitation is to be justified in accordance with the American way of scrutiny reformulated as" ordinary scrutiny".