A Positive Study on the Legal System in Japanese Empire and Colonies

本项目旨在为研究者提供有关日本帝国时期殖民地法律的基本文献，以描述日本法律对东亚现代法律的制度的影响，并研究各国社会历史背景的差异和各种制度的相互比较，利用日本帝国与其殖民地之间的比较框架，以“冈松三太郎文正文件”等档案为基础。捐赠给早稻田大学图书馆的《千草达雄文正文献》（1282件）和《宫内岸信介文正文献》（436件）向公众开放。台湾司法研究院所藏《殖民地时期台中地方法院审判记录》（40，033例，326卷）已初步编制档案目录。在这一过程中，举办了6次关于“帝国和殖民地法律的制度”的学习班和1次关于同一主题的国际专题讨论会。

This project is an attempt to provide researchers with fundamental documents on colonial laws in Japanese Imperial Period to depict influence of Japanese Law on modern legal system in East Asia and to study differences of socio-historical backgrounds among countries and inter-comparison of each system, using comparative framework between Imperial Japan and her colonies based on archives of "Okamatsu Santaro Monjo Documents" and so on.Web catalogues of "Chigusa Tatsuo Monjo Documents" (1282 items) and "Miyauchi Kishi Monjo Documents" (436 items) donated to Waseda University Library are open to public. A tentative archival catalogue of "Judicial Records of Taichung District Court in Colonial Times" (40,033 cases of 326 volumes) in Academy for the Judiciary in Taiwan has been created. In this process, 6 study sessions on "The Empire and the Colonial Legal System" and 1 International Symposium on the same topic were held.