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Legislation
Seventeen-article constitution (604)
- Taika Reform Edict (646)
the Constitution of the Empire of Japan
- Imperial House Law (1889)
- Imperial Ordinance Concerning the House of Peers (1889)
- Imperial Rescript on Education (1890)
- Imperial Rescript on the Tripartite Pact (1940)
- Imperial Rescript on Surrender (1945)
the Constitution of Japan (1947)
- Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs (2004)
- Act on the Control of Organizations Which Have Committed Acts of Indiscriminate Mass Murder (2006)
- Civil Code of Japan (2006)
- Copyright Act of Japan (2006)
- National Government Organization Act (2006)
- Penal Code (2006)
- Subversive Activities Prevention Act (2006)
- Bank of Japan Act (2007)
Caselaw
Treaties
- Treaty of Kanagawa (1854)
- Harris Treaty (1858)
- Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895)
- Treaty of Portsmouth (1905)
- Remarks by Admiral Togo at dispersal ceremony for the combined fleet (1905)
- Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty (1910)
- Twenty-One Demands (1915)
- Japan's Surrender Communiqués (1945)
- Imperial Rescript on Surrender (1945)
- Japanese Instrument of Surrender (1945)
- Governmental and Administrative Separation of Certain Outlying Areas from Japan (20 Jan 1946)
- Rusk documents (10 Aug 1951)
- Treaty of San Francisco (1952)
- Treaty of Peace between Japan and the Republic of China (1952)
- Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea (1965)
- Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China (1972)
Works about the law
- "The People's Rights in Japan", in Littell's Living Age, 151 (1881)
- The Civil Code of Japan Compared with the French Civil Code (1902), by Kazuo Hatoyama
- Constitutional Imperialism in Japan (1916), by Ernest Wilson Clement
- Commentary of Minister of State Tokujiro Kanamori on the Constitution (1946)