Trends of European private law and modernization of Japanese obligation law

本研究的目的是跟踪欧洲和欧盟私法的发展，以及日本合同法和日本侵权法的发展。此外，在前人研究的基础上，得出债法改革工作和日本私法现代化的改革讨论的结果，具体分析欧盟平面的私法趋势以及欧洲国家与日本法的私法现代化，并将结果作为一些文章发表。特别是通过与日本国内外专家的交流，可以从多个角度明确这一问题的现状，并将其具体化，加深我们对这一问题的认识和理解，这是非常有意义的。研究结果表明，欧洲私法的协调与统一趋势不仅扩大到合同法领域，而且扩大到整个私法领域。通过研究，也为日本债法的改革提供了一些重要的启示。

This research's goal is to follow the development in European and EU private law, and Japanese contract law and tort law in Japan. Additionally, it is to get a result for the reform-works on the law of obligations and the reform discussion on the modernization ofJapanese private laws, based on previous studies.This research would concretely analyze the trend of private laws in EU plane and the modernization of private laws on European countries in relation to Japanese law, and published the result as some articles. Especially by exchange between experts from within and outside of Japan we could clear the current of this problem from several angles and then concretize the issues of it. It was very meaningful to deepen our knowledge and understanding of it.As results of this research it was identified that the trend of harmonization and unification on European private law is enlarged not only to contract law area, but also to the whole private law. By this research also some important indications for the reform-works on the Japanese law of obligations were gained.