Keywords
legal term
meiji era
legilinguistics
roots
genesis
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Abstract
During the Meiji era, Japan began its modernization and the Western culture was
introduced to Japan. Japan had to construct a modern society, fusing complicatedly with a model of
the Japanese tradition. In the legislation field, beginning with the Constitution of the Empire of
Japan, the establishment of the first unified nationwide law was attempted in this period. In
particular concerning the civil code, The French Code (later German Code) was considered as the
most comprehensive code, and its translation was made and edited as a Japanese Civil Code.
However, translating the original concepts which had not existed in Japan was a very difficult task.
They coined words preserving the original sequence of elements and as a result there is a gap
between the European legal terms and the Japanese ones especially in translation. The current legal
terminology was made based on such a historical background, in consequence it has become less
familiar to Japanese people. I would like to consider theses problems on some examples.
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