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 Legal Education in Modern Japan. met with in such a degree in this coun try. He has done for general education what Mr. Masujima has tried to do for legal study, — make it practical and effec Elements of Civil Law — Civil Code — Criminal tive. The college has been the field for the working out of his ideas. Of late he has Code — Criminal Procedure Code — Civil Pro cedure Code — International Law — French given himself up to his newspaper, the Jiji Civil Code — French Jurisprudence — Econom Shimpo, the largest in the Empire; and the ics — Gymnastics 22 hours. growth of the college has thrown its man agement into the SECOND YEAR. hands of the men Civil Code — Criminal who have been trained Code — Criminal Pro by him. A Japanese cedure Code — Civil of the Japanese, and a Procedure Code — gentleman of the last Commercial Code — generation, yet saga French Civil Code — cious to discern the French Jurisprudence spirit and the needs — Constitutional Law of to-day, he has al — Finance — Moot ways been a lover Court — Gymnastics 26 hours. of things American. Twice he has visited THIRD YEAR. the United States; Civil Code — Civil Pro his three oldest sons cedure Code — Com were educated there mercial Code— French (one of them in Bos Civil Code — Interna ton) tional Law — French when he founded a Jurisprudence — Moot university department Court — Gymnastics (with funds partly con 26 hours. tributed from alumni), The monthly dues he sent to the United KANEKO KENTARO. are one yen, and the States for his foreign I President of the japan Law School.) entrance fee is one instructors. The Law yen. Department has at present for its law courses a staff of seven 7. Law Department of Keiogijukn Uni instructors, — one of them a resident for versity. eigner. Messrs. Mayeda, Kawamura, and Keiogijuku College — the oldest institution Tomitani ^German and French lawyers, al ready mentioned), and Motoda (lately presi in the country, next to the Imperial Uni versity, and the first to teach the English dent of the Tokyo Bar Association) are the language and literature — has an interesting best known. Like the German Law School, history, the events of which are indissolubly this new department begins unassumingly, associated with the career of Mr. Fukuzawa, the students during the first two years num the great educator and editor. A democrat, bering only eighteen all told. Many reasons severely practica!, having a compelling per contribute to make the number a small one. sonality, entirely independent, — one could The annual fee is thirty yen; the entrance not pick out four qualities less frequently fee is three yen, — treble the figures of
 * and in 1889,

Tomii, Mayeda, and Tomitani, already men tioned in other places. The courses are as follows : — FIRST YEAR.