A research about the expansion of modern Japanese law in Asia and its impact on present Taiwanese law

本课题的主要目的是研究近代日本法律在亚洲的扩张及其对台湾现行法律的影响。为使这项研究站稳脚跟，建立了“台湾法论文资料资料库”、“日文中国法、殖民地台湾法、近代(原)万寿国法文献资料库”等资料库。不断收集全新的基础资料和史料。编写并出版了多篇台湾现行法律论文、中国近代法律史研究手册、清代或民国时期法律顾问专著等。也为社会提供了一些关于中国近代法律史的新信息，特别是关于中国民法制定过程的新信息。

Main purpose of this project is to do some research about the expansion of modern Japanese law in Asia and its impact on present Taiwanese law. To put this research on a firm footing, several databases such as‘Database on papers and materials on Taiwanese law' and‘Database of papers and materials written in Japanese language on Chinese law, Colonial Taiwanese law, and law of"(former) Manshukoku" in Modern Era' are produced. Brand-new basic materials and historical source books are collected continuously. And several theses on Taiwanese law in force, handbook of research on modern Chinese legal history, and prosopographical essays on legal adviser at Qing or Minguo era, are prepared and published. Some new information on modern Chinese legal history, especially on the process of making its civil law, is also provided to the society.