著者

六本 佳平

出版者

日本法社会学会/有斐閣

雑誌

法社会学 (ISSN:04376161)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1986, no.38, pp.140-147, 1986-04-20 (Released:2009-01-15)

著者

六本 佳平

出版者

法学協会

雑誌

法学協会雑誌 = Journal of the Jurisprudence Association (ISSN:00226815)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.137, no.8, pp.1412-1357, 2020-08

著者

六本 佳平

出版者

The Japanese Association of Sociology of Law

雑誌

法社会学 (ISSN:04376161)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1983, no.35, pp.14-33,248, 1983-03-30 (Released:2009-01-15)

参考文献数

130

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This paper attempts to give a brief overview of the works of the Japanese legal scientists concerning the "Law-consciousness of the Japanese", a subject which has occupied and is still occupying the center of attention of the Japanese lawyers, more or less empirically oriented. The author starts by making distinction between "the general sense of justice" component and "the idea of law" component of the term law-consciousness, and concentrates on the latter for the rest of the paper. According to the author, the theme of law-consciousness of the Japanese appeared first in the Japanese intellectual community under the term of the law abiding spirit which was deemed by Professor Kawashima to be lacking among the Japanese populace of the war time, and after the war the theme took a firm root as a respect for law and the modern legal system as it was regarded as a prerequisite for democratic social changes. A model of modern law-consciousnees was drawn from the analysis of the basic principles of private law of the continental West and used as a standard to measure the actual Japanese attitudes toward law revealed in their daily conducts, regarding family relations, for instance. Then the concept was applied to the litigious behaviour of the Japanese who lacked, according to Kawashima, the idea that each individual is equal and entitled to press for the realisation of his own rights guaranteed by law. Later this theory came to be criticized for its one-sidedness, and other factors than law-consciousness such as the defects on the side of legal institutions, were put forward to explain the infrequent use of courts and lawyers in the cases of dispute. As to the transformation of law-consciousness of the Japanese, the author points to the recent discussions, lively conducted not only by law professors, but also by people involved with the legal practice such as business contracts both national and international, which, contrary to Kawashima's prediction, increasingly stress the persistence of the peculiarly Japanese ways of handling legal affairs. The paper is closed with a call for continuation of the discussion more on the base of empirical material and capable of cumulative theoretical advancement.

著者

六本 佳平

出版者

日本法哲学会

雑誌

法哲学年報 (ISSN:03872890)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1975, pp.83-99, 1976-10-10 (Released:2008-11-17)

参考文献数

8

著者

六本 佳平 ダニエル フット IWAI Hiroshi DOI Tadashi KURIYAAM Hiromichi KOMEDA Mototane

出版者

放送大学

雑誌

基盤研究(C)

巻号頁・発行日

2000

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1)法報道の概念および研究分野としての意義について考察した。2)法報道の量の増大について数量的なデータを得るべく、朝日新聞縮刷版により60年、80年、00年の各偶数月の法報道(一定の基準を設定)記事の内容・大きさ・頻度等を調査し、40年間に記事の数が3倍近く増えていることを確認した。3)法律の専門知識とジャーナリズムの専門性とにまたがるこの分野に対する報道機閧の体制について内外の関係者に若干のインタビュー、研究報告により、現状を考察した。4)アメリカ大統領選挙におけるTV報道とその役割について、六本およびフットの報告・討論を行い、メディアの法報道が重要な政治的役割を果たす過程を具体的に分析した。