HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF THE JAPANESE CIVIL CODE

众所周知，前日本民法典是在布瓦索纳德草案的基础上，以法国民法典为蓝本编纂的。然后，在经历了所谓的“编纂之争”之后，日本民法典的编纂是参照德国民法典的草案进行的。因此，仔细研究日本民法典所采用的原则和规则，它们似乎来自欧洲民法的传统，可以追溯到罗马法。我们项目的每一位调查员都致力于研究日本民法典中所采用的原则和规则的起源和发展。1998年9月9日，我们在福冈举办了为期三天的“日本民法典百年国际历史”国际研讨会。我们与6位德国学者和4位法国学者一起，从不同的角度对日本民法典与欧洲传统民法进行了比较。我们计划在1999年11月之前以日文和外文两种版本发表我们的研究成果。

It is well known that the former Japanese Civil Code had been codified based on Boissonade's draft modeled on the French Code civil. Then, after going through so-called "Controversy about the codification", the Japanese Civil Code, as it stands, is codified with referring the drafts of the German Civil code. Therefore, on close examinations of the principles and rules adopted in the Japanese Civil Code, it appears that they come from the European tradition in the civil law, which goes back to the roman law.Each investigators of our project worked on the origin and development of the principles and rules adopted in the Japanese Civil Code. And we conducted the international symposium on the subject of "A Century of the Japanese Civil Code Its History in International Context" in Fukuoka from Sept. 9 for three days in 1998. With 6 German and 4 French scholars, we compared the Japanese Civil Code with the European tradition in the civil law from diverse viewpoints.We plan to publish our study in this symposium by November 1999 both in the Japanese edition and the foreign languages version.