The paper discusses how European private law was studied and adopted in Japan in the 19th and 20th century and whether the private law developed there as a "fruit of comparative law" could serve if not as a basis, then as inspiration for a unified European private law today. This is the English...

"Selective marital surname" has reemerged in media headlines. Japan appears to be the only country in the world that holds onto the unitary surname system, under which 96% of wives relinquish their birth surnames. Majority of the Japanese population seems to accept, wittingly or unwittingly, the...