Open AccessThe influence of Western laws on Japanese law in history and experience for Vietnam today
Author(s) -
Mai Văn Thắng,
Hoang Van Doan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
vnu journal of science: legal studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2588-1167
DOI - 10.25073/2588-1167/vnuls.4167
Subject(s) - law , government (linguistics) , political science , legal history , perspective (graphical) , computer science , philosophy , linguistics , artificial intelligence
This article approaches from a legal history perspective to discover the effects of advanced laws in Western such as Germany, France, the United States on Japanese law in the modern era. Thereby, the authors clarify the ways of integrating foreign law and decode the choices, decisions of the Japanese government. This paper also focuses on analysis areas of the Japanese legal system that have been affected by the Western laws as well as clarifies the factors of foreign law integration and reasons of the success of the Japanese legal system when it integrates laws from different legal systems of the West as well as the harmonious combination of traditional Japanese elements with extrinsic progress values. It shows the valuable experiences for Vietnam in the process of building and perfecting the current legal system..