O processo de ocidentalização do Estado e do direito japonês na era Meiji: conflitos e contradições

Abstract

This work is dedicated to the study of the relationship between Japanese culture and the Western Legal System, introduced in Japan at the beginning of the Meiji era. This phenomenon coincided with the birth of a new Japanese state, which, after years of isolation, would introduce western democratic institutions consolitaded in the West over centuries of its history. This survey intends, then, to investigate the contradictions and conflicts related to this cultural transplantation, showing their causes and effects. The purposeof this work is, therefore, to make visible howthe traditional Japanese culture represented, to some extent, anobstacle to the realization of the principleson which were based the legal and political institutions in the West, by the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.