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Languages : en
Pages : 255
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Provisional Report on Investigations of Laws and Customs in the Island of Formosa
Author: Provisional Report on Investigations of Laws and Customs in the Island of Formosa
Author: Santarō OkamatsuPublisher:
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Category : Taiwan (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Provisional Report on Investigations of Laws and Customs in the Island of Formosa
Author: Rinji Taiwan Kyūkan ChōsakaiPublisher:
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Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Provisional Report on Investigations of Laws and Customs in the Island of Formosa
Author: Santaro OkamatsuPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Development of Jury Service in Japan
Author: Anna DobrovolskaiaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317035976
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This book presents a comprehensive account of past and present efforts to introduce the jury system in Japan. Four legal reforms are documented and assessed: the implementation of the bureaucratic and all-judge special jury systems in the 1870s, the introduction of the all-layperson jury in the late 1920s, the transplantation of the Anglo-American-style jury system to Okinawa under the U.S. Occupation, and the implementation of the mixed-court lay judge (saiban’in) system in 2009. While being primarily interested in the related case studies, the book also discusses the instances when the idea of introducing trial by jury was rejected at different times in Japan’s history. Why does legal reform happen? What are the determinants of success and failure of a reform effort? What are the prospects of the saiban’in system to function effectively in Japan? This book offers important insights on the questions that lie at the core of the law and society debate and are highly relevant for understanding contemporary Japan and its recent and distant past.
Japanese Colonial Government
Author: Noboru AsamiPublisher:
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Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium
Author: Susan L. BurnsPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824839196
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Beginning in the nineteenth century, law as practice, discourse, and ideology became a powerful means of reordering gender relations in modern nation-states and their colonies around the world. This volume puts developments in Japan and its empire in dialogue with this global phenomenon. Arguing against the popular stereotype of Japan as a non-litigious society, an international group of contributors from Japan, Taiwan, Germany, and the U.S., explores how in Japan and its colonies, as elsewhere in the modern world, law became a fundamental means of creating and regulating gendered subjects and social norms in the period from the 1870s to the 1950s. Rather than viewing legal discourse and the courts merely as technologies of state control, the authors suggest that they were subject to negotiation, interpretation, and contestation at every level of their formulation and deployment. With this as a shared starting point, they explore key issues such reproductive and human rights, sexuality, prostitution, gender and criminality, and the formation of the modern conceptions of family and conjugality, and use these issues to complicate our understanding of the impact of civil, criminal, and administrative laws upon the lives of both Japanese citizens and colonial subjects. The result is a powerful rethinking of not only gender and law, but also the relationships between the state and civil society, the metropole and the colonies, and Japan and the West. Collectively, the essays offer a new framework for the history of gender in modern Japan and revise our understanding of both law and gender in an era shaped by modernization, nation and empire-building, war, occupation, and decolonization. With its broad chronological time span and compelling and yet accessible writing, Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium will be a powerful addition to any course on modern Japanese history and of interest to readers concerned with gender, society, and law in other parts of the world. Contributors: Barbara J. Brooks, Daniel Botsman, Susan L. Burns, Chen Chao-Ju, Darryl Flaherty, Harald Fuess, Sally A. Hastings, Douglas Howland, Matsutani Motokazu.
Law and Custom in Korea
Author: Marie Seong-Hak KimPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110700697X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Sets forth the evolution of Korea's law and legal system from the Chosǒn dynasty through the colonial and postcolonial modern periods.
Chinese Working-Class Lives
Author: Hill GatesPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501719920
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Taiwan’s working class has been shaped by Chinese tradition, by colonialism, and by rapid industrialization. This book defines that class, explores that history, and presents with sensitive honesty the life experiences of some of its women and men. Hill Gates first provides a solid and informative introduction to Taiwan’s history, showing how mainland China, Japan, the convulsions of twentieth-century wars, and the East Asian economic expansion interacted in forming Taiwanese urban life. She introduces nine individuals from Taiwan’s three major ethnic groups to tell the stories of their lives in their own words. The narrators include a fortuneteller, a woman laborer, and a retired air force mechanic. A former spirit medium and a janitor are among the others who speak.
Civil Law in Qing and Republican China
Author: Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804779279
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The opening of local archives to Western scholars in the 1980's has provided the basis for this reexamination of civil law in Qing and Republican China. This pathbreaking volume demonstrates that, contrary to previous scholarly understanding, Qing and Republican courts dealt extensively with such civil matters as land rights, debt, marriage, and inheritance, and did so with striking consistency and in conformity with the written code.
