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

本研究主要目的是探讨近代日本法在亚洲的扩张及其对台湾现行法律的影响。为了使这项研究有一个坚实的基础，建立了几个数据库，如“台湾法律论文和资料数据库”和“用日语撰写的关于近代中国法律、殖民地台湾法律和”（前）满洲国”法律的论文和资料数据库“。不断收集全新的基础资料和史料书。并编写出版了《台湾现行法论文》、《中国近代法律的史研究手册》、《清代、民国时期法律的顾问人物志》等。同时也为社会提供了中国近代法律的史，特别是中国民法的制定过程的新信息。

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.