Portal:Law of Japan

Legislation

• Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs (2004)
• Act on the Control of Organizations Which Have Committed Acts of Indiscriminate Mass Murder (2006)
• Bank of Japan Act (2007)
• Civil Code of Japan (2006)
• Portal:Constitutions of Japan
• Copyright Act of Japan (2006)
• Imperial House Law
• Imperial Ordinance Concerning the House of Peers (1889)
• Imperial Rescript on Education (1890)
• Imperial Rescript on the Tripartite Pact (1940)
• Imperial Rescript on Surrender (1945)
• National Government Organization Act (2006)
• Penal Code (Japan) (2006)
• Subversive Activities Prevention Act (2006)
• Taika Reform Edict (646)

Case laws

• Ryuichi Shimoda et al. v. The State (1963)

Treaties

• Treaty of Kanagawa (1854)
• Harris Treaty (1858)
• Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895)
• Treaty of Portsmouth (1905)
• Remarks by Admiral Togo at dispersal ceremony for the combined fleet (1905)
• Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty (1910)
• Twenty-One Demands (1915)
• Japan's Surrender Communiqués (1945)
• Imperial Rescript on Surrender (1945)
• Japanese Instrument of Surrender (1945)
• Governmental and Administrative Separation of Certain Outlying Areas from Japan (20 Jan 1946)
• Rusk documents (10 Aug 1951)
• Treaty of San Francisco (1952)
• Treaty of Peace between Japan and the Republic of China (1952)
• Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea (1965)
• Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China (1972)

Articles

• The Civil Code of Japan Compared with the French Civil Code (1902), by Kazuo Hatoyama
• "The People's Rights in Japan", in Littell's Living Age Volume 151 (1881)