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Law and Society in Imperial Japan: Suehiro Izutarō and the Search for Equity

Law and Society in Imperial Japan: Suehiro Izutarō and the Search for Equity

Morgan, Jason

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralGeneral LawJapanese History

ISBN10: 1604979933
ISBN13: 9781604979930
Publisher: Cambria Pr
Published: Jan 8 2020
Pages: 290
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Japan emerged from the Edo Period (1600-1868) with a legal system which, in many ways, tended to privilege situational judgment over strict adherence to universally-applicable legal codes. Under pressure from without and within to modernize, Japan adopted many Western laws and jurisprudential practices which were largely alien to Japanese society. At the same time, Japan took on Western modes of political participation which tended to exacerbate more than solve the social ills attendant on industrialization and modernity. Suehiro Izutarō, a legal scholar at the University of Tokyo, and a group of likeminded professors and activists attempted to ameliorate Japanese social problems through a case law method, making the courts more responsive to the poor through the application of a native form of Japanese equity from the Edo Period. However, as Japan's regional reach expanded and the world situation darkened, the prerogatives of empire cut short Suehiro's social experiments and eventually co-opted even Suehiro himself in imperial logic.

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