Law (Civil Law) B

Academic unit or major

Humanities and social science courses

Instructor(s)

Hironao Kaneko

Class Format

Lecture (Zoom)

Media-enhanced courses

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Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

1-2 Mon (W934) / 1-2 Thu (W934)

Class

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Course Code

LAH.S202

Number of credits

200

Course offered

2020

Offered quarter

4Q

Syllabus updated

Jul 10, 2025

Language

Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

In this course students will study about the Japanese Civil Code, as one of the most important Japanese law. This lecture credit is correspond to the "Civil Law" credit that is required to entry to the official professional exams. Students who are interested in Intellectual Property Law are recomended to study Civil Code too. Students will be accustomed to use the Code book, "Ropo", helping study Japanese laws that relating to students future works.

Course description and aims

To understand the structure of the Civil Code and Basic legal knowledge. This lecture covers over all themes of civil law, including the general provisions, property, securities, contract law, tort, family law(family and testament).

Student learning outcomes

実務経験と講義内容との関連 (又は実践的教育内容)

Based on lacturr's experience as a researcher at the software protection institution, students can practically understand Civil Law.

Keywords

faith, public order, propertry, freedom of contract, freedom of decision, agreement, insurance, contract categories, equality, redistribution of resource

Competencies

• Specialist skills
• Intercultural skills
• Communication skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

lecture on basic knowledge about every section of the Civil Code. Discussion about real judgement with small group of participants. Participants sometimes would be required to produce notebook as confirm understanding of each lectures. Using small size Code Book.
This course will welcome students who are not accustomed to Japanese-Chinese characters. Slids will be contain English terms as possible.

Course schedule/Objectives

Study advice (preparation and review)

To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to take preparation and reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.

Textbook(s)

Ken Kawai, First Course to Civil Law, (Yuhikaku)　（Abailable at Univ. Coop Shop and delivery service)
Code book(RopoZensyo, every publishers OK) You should by the latest version because Civil Code ammended.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Minpou-Hanrei-hyakusen, (Yuhikaku)
Yoshio Shiomi,Minpo Zen (Yuhikaku)

Evaluation methods and criteria

daily activity (30%) & intertrim report + paper test (70%)

Related courses

• LAH.S102 ： Law (Civil Law) A
• LAH.S101 ： Law (Constitutional Law) A
• LAH.S302 ： Law (Civil Procedure Law) C
• LAH.S201 ： Law (Constitutional Law) Ｂ
• LAH.S303 ： Law (Intelectual Property Law) C
• LAH.S250 ： Seminar on Social Sciences (Japanese Law Study Seminar)1

Prerequisites

Caution: Please participate in the first or the second class. (Without these participation, registration will be canceled.)
For foreign students. This lecture is focusing on Japanese Civil Code. Some part may be common to your countiries legal system but other may be totaly different. Please prepair youu countries introductory text book for contract law. It is helpful for your study.
Try note taking mixing Japanese and your counries language. It may be good experience to learning Kanji. (If you feel difficulty in note taking by any reasons, please consult to the university's barreir free consultant desk.)

Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).

kaneko(@)ila.titech.ac.jp

Office hours

Monday & Thursday 12:00to12:30

Other

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