Law (Civil Law) B

Academic unit or major

Humanities and social science courses

Instructor(s)

Hironao Kaneko

Class Format

Lecture (Face-to-face)

Media-enhanced courses

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Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

unknown

Class

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Course Code

LAH.S202

Number of credits

200

Course offered

2025

Offered quarter

4Q

Syllabus updated

May 7, 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 recommended to study Civil Code too. Students will be accustomed to use the Code book, "Roppo", helping study Japanese laws that relating to students future works.
University students are adults who have right and obligation.

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

Keywords

faith, public order, property, 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 judgment 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. Slides 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)

Toyohiro Nomura, Minjiho-Nyumon 8th Supplement ed. (YUHIKAKU-ARUMA )
Code book(RopoZensyo, every publishers OK) You should by the latest version because Civil Code amended.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

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

Evaluation methods and criteria

daily activity (40%) & interterm report + paper test (60%)

Related courses

• LAH.S102 ： Law (Civil Law) A
• LAH.S101 ： Law (Constitutional Law) A
• LAH.S302 ： Law （Civil dispute Resolution Law) C
• LAH.S201 ： Law (Constitutional Law) Ｂ
• LAH.S303 ： Law (Intelectual Property Law) C
• LAH.S301 ： Law(Law in our society-The Constitution of Japan)C

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 countries legal system but other may be totally different. Please prepare your countries introductory text book for contract law. It is helpful for your study.
Please check schedule in November by University LMS.
Try note taking mixing Japanese and your countries 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 barrier 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

Please check schedule in November by Web system