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 Legal Education in Modern Japan. trative Court (Makimura) the AttorneyGeneral (Matsuoka), — these, and others lend their names. The President of the school is no less than Mr. Kaneko Kentaro, the Chief Secretary of the House of Peers, whose name is familiar in the United States and England. " His tastes and his capacity as a scholar fit him emi nently for this position, and one almost regrets that his patriotism leads him to con secrate chieHy to politics the services that would otherwise be so valuable to science. It is to Mr. Kaneko's official influence that we may look principally for all that is being done and that will be done for the scientific study of Japanese legal history." It is worth a passing notice that the chiefs of three of the eight important law schools were educated at American law schools. The "Institute for History and Antiquities," the centre of antiquarian studies, has an intimate connection with the Japan Law School, and some of its members, Including Mr. Konakamura, Mr. Naito, and Mr. Kimura, the

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three great legal scholars of the older gene ration, are nominally on the law school staff. But I cannot find that they have yet done more than deliver an occasional public lec ture. However, Mr. Matsuzaki, one of the best younger scholars and a specialist in Local Institutions and Taxation under the Tokugawas, lectures on Economics; and Mr. Miyazaki, the best modern student of the indigenous law, is preparing a brief course of lectures on that subject. The courses are : — FIRST YEAR. Civil Code (Property), 5 hours; Civil Code (Per sons), 2 hours; Criminal Code, 3 hours; Crim inal Procedure Code, i hour; Constitutional and Administrative Law, 3 hours; Economics, 2 hours. SECOND YEAR. Civil Code (Obligations), 7 hours; Civil Code (Suretyship and Mortgage), 2 hours; Civil Code (Persons), 2 hours; Civil Code (Proof), i hour; Civil Procedure Code, 3 hours; Inter national Law, 2 hours.