Research for development of and education for legal mind

我们与千叶南高中、千叶大学附属初中和小学的老师合作，组织了一系列的实验教育。我们的目的是给初等和中等教育的学生一个机会，使他们有一些执行司法和正义的基本经验。这是我们从2001年开始的研究的第三阶段。我们选择了Kaiware案例作为我们的材料，在这个案例中，日本政府被起诉在发布有关集体感染原因的信息方面存在疏忽。原告是来自日本各地的Kaiware萝卜农民，他们因厚生省宣布酒井市小学午餐中的Kaiware萝卜是导致3名儿童死亡和数千名儿童腹泻的O-157结肠炎的嫌疑人而遭受了损失。我们花了2003年的时间准备材料；编辑法庭判决，采访双方的律师等等。2004年，我们在上述学校开设了课程。在给出基本事实后，学生们被分成6人一组，并讨论正确的决定。我们发现结果相当令人满意。每一所学校的学生都热衷于讨论以寻求正义。我们要求他们首先运用自己的正义感，看看小组成员之间的结果是否相同。然后，他们被要求通过说服他人或被他人说服来试图达成某种共识。我们的最终目标是看看日本社会是否可以重新安排，使人们的正义感比现在发挥更大的作用。这个目标雄心勃勃，而且有点遥不可及。但就目前而言，我们相信我们的实验是成功的。在我们的研究结果的出版中，我们包括了我们所使用的材料，不同级别的学校的教师可以使用这些材料来指导成人和青少年，以适应将于2008年开始的新的日本混合陪审团制度。少

We organized a series of experimental education in cooperation with the teachers in Chiba Minami High School, and Junior High and Elementary Schools both attached to Chiba University. Our purpose was to give an opportunity for pupils in primary and secondary education to have some basic experience of performing judiciary and justice. This was the third phase of our research which had started in 2001. We chose as our material the Kaiware Case in which the state of Japan was sued for negligence in releasing the information concerning the cause of mass-infection. The plaintiffs were the farmers of Kaiware radish from all over Japan who suffered from the announcement by the Ministry of Health that Kaiware radish served in elementary school lunch in the city of Sakai was the suspect for the mass infection of O-157 colitis which caused the death of 3 children and diarrhea of thousands.We spent the year of 2003 preparing materials ; editing the court-decisions, interviewing attorneys of both … More parties etc. In 2004 we run the classes in the schools mentioned above. After given basic facts, pupils were divided into the groups of 6 each and discussed for the right decision.We find the result rather satisfactory. The pupils of every school became fascinated in discussing in search of justice. We asked them to apply their own sense of justice first and see if the results were the same among the members of the group. Then they were expected to try to reach some consensus by either persuading or being persuaded by others.Our final goal is to see if Japanese society can be rearranged so that people's sense of justice plays a greater roll than present. That goal is ambitious and a bit remote. But for the time being our experiment, we believe, was a success. In the publication of the result of our research we included the materials we had used, which teachers in different levels of school can use for the purpose of instructing people, adult and junior, for the new Japanese mixed-jury system which will start in 2008. Less