〔オンデマンド版〕Lectures on Japanese Law from a Comparative Perspective（邦題：比較的観点からの日本法講義）

ⅠOrigins and Sources

Chapter 1 Pre-Meiji Japanese Law
1- Ancient Ages
2- Classic Ages
3- Medieval Ages
4- Edo bakufu
Chapter 2 Post-Meiji Japanese law
1- Revere the Emperor, expel the barbarians ! 　
2- The Shogun resigns, the Emperor is restored
3- Enrich the Country, strengthen the Militia 　
4- The first steps of the Meiji Government : the dajōkan structure 　
5- Towards a true National Assembly : the Popular Rights Movement
6- The birth of the Meiji Constitution 　
7- The Era of Codification　
8- Taishō democracy
9- One single roof covering all directions ! 　
10- The Shōwa Revolution 　
11- Post-occupation Japan
Chapter 3 Sources of Japanese Law
1- ‘Rule of law’ as the basis of the system 　
2- Written sources of law 　
3- Non-written sources of law

Ⅱ Legal Professionals, Courts and Trials

Chapter 4 The Legal Profession in Japan
1- A three-fold legal profession… 　
2- …With a unified entrance　
3- Judges　
4- Prosecutors
5- Attorneys 　
6- Foreign Law Attorneys 　
7- Paralegals
Chapter 5 The Japanese Judiciary
1- The Japanese judiciary before World War II 　
2- The Ōtsu incident as an enduring symbol of judicial independence　
3- The Judiciary under the current Constitution 　
4- The Justice SystemReform
5- The structure of the Japanese judiciary
Chapter 6 Civil an Criminal Litigation
1- The adversarial principle 　
2- The civil lawsuit or civil lawsuits ? 　
3- The process of civil litigation
4- The Criminal Procedure Code 　
5- The pre-trial stage 　
6- The trial stage 　
7- A performance in four acts 　
8- The lay-judges system

Ⅲ The Constitution

Chapter 7 The Birth of the Shōwa Constitution and the Principle of Popular Sovereignty
1- The PotsdamDeclaration 　
2- The drafting of the new Constitution 　
3- The legitimacy of the Shōwa Constitution 　
4- The principle of popular sovereignty　
5- Who are the Japanese people ?
Chapter 8 The Principle of Separation of Powers and the Japanese Parliamentary System
1- The National Diet
2- The Cabinet
Chapter 9 Constitutional Control as the Guarantee of Fundamental Human Rights
1- Several approaches to the power of constitutional control 　
2- Which formof constitutional control obtains in Japan ?
3- Constitutional litigation in Japan : the requirement of controversy
4- Basic guidelines of constitutional control 5- The Bill of Rights of the Japanese Constitution
Chapter 10 The Principle of Pacifism
1- The Principle of Pacifismand the origins of Article 9 　
2- The Japanese rearmament : the birth of the Self-Defense Forces and the US-Japan Security Treaty 3- How much defensive are the SDF
4- The SDF and the power of constitutional control
5- The US-Japan Security Treaty and the overseas deployment of SDF

Ⅳ The Civil Code

Chapter 11 Basics of Civil law
1- Origins and evolution of the Japanese Civil code
2- A set of rules about ‘persons’ and ‘things’
3- Personhood
4- Creating rights and duties : juristic acts
5- Acting through the intervention of other persons : the rules of agency
6- The effect of the lapse of time in creating and destroying rights6
Chapter 12 Real Rights
1- Things as the subject matter of real rights
2- The concept of real rights : nature and particularities
3- The principle of numerus clausus and the rule of exclusion
4- Legal actions to protect real rights
5- The meaning of ‘having something’ : possession and ownership
6- Rights over someone else’s thing : encumbrances
7- The double-sale scenario
Chapter 13 Obligations
1- Identifying basic concepts
2- Performing obligations
3- Binding yourself for another’s obligation
4- Extinguishing obligations
5- Contracts and everyday life
6- Freedomof contract and its restrictions
7- Offer and acceptance
8- Contracts as juristic acts
9- The contract of sale
10- Quasi-contracts : management of business and unjust enrichment
11- The principle of alterum non laedere
12- The structure of a tort
13- Making up for the wrongdoing of others
Chapter 14 Family and Inheritance Law
1- From‘the-m ale-is-in-charge’ rule to the ‘equality of sexes’
2- Basic terminology on kinship
3- The koseki registration system
4- When love begins : basic principles of marriage
5- Relationships between spouses
6- Parents-children relationships
7- When love ends : basic principles of divorce
8- Inheritance law

Ⅴ The Criminal Code

Chapter 15 Criminal law-General Part
1- The legality principle as the cornerstone of criminal law
2- Constitutive elements of a crime
3- Punishments and penalties under Japanese Criminal law
4- Concurrence and plurality of criminal offenses
Chapter 16 Criminal law-Special Part
1- Crimes against individuals
2- Crimes against society
3- Crimes against the state