Hiromi Sasamoto-Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 713280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hiromi Sasamoto-Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hiromi |
| FAMILY NAME | Sasamoto-Collins |
| SIGNATURE | SASAMOTO-COLLINS H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Emperor's Sovereign Status and the Legal Construction of Gender in Early Meiji Japan
Between 1878 and 1883 the Meiji government began to consolidate basic structures of the modern Japanese state that persisted until Japan's defeat in 1945. Women were denied voting rights at the local level, excluded from newspaper operation, and exposed to discriminatory criminal laws. The early exclusion of women from the legal sphere quickly embedded gender inequality in the new structures of state. This article examines how gender discriminati…
Progress impeded
Japan's first Western-style criminal law of 1880 is an odd mixture of ‘old’ and ‘new’. The principle of legality (‘no punishment without law’) is laid out in this code for the first time in the country's legal history, while another mooted principle, legal equality (‘everyone has to obey the same law’), is finally omitted. Instead, the law introduces new forms of legal inequality. This paper compares the law with one of its main drafts which stil…
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Progress impeded
Japan's first Western-style criminal law of 1880 is an odd mixture of ‘old’ and ‘new’. The principle of legality (‘no punishment without law’) is laid out in this code for the first time in the country's legal history, while another mooted principle, legal equality (‘everyone has to obey the same law’), is finally omitted. Instead, the law introduces new forms of legal inequality. This paper compares the law with one of its main drafts which stil…
The Emperor's Sovereign Status and the Legal Construction of Gender in Early Meiji Japan
Between 1878 and 1883 the Meiji government began to consolidate basic structures of the modern Japanese state that persisted until Japan's defeat in 1945. Women were denied voting rights at the local level, excluded from newspaper operation, and exposed to discriminatory criminal laws. The early exclusion of women from the legal sphere quickly embedded gender inequality in the new structures of state. This article examines how gender discriminati…
Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (1 works) · Citizenship (1 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (1 works) · Criminal Code (1 works) · Criminal law (1 works) · Emperor (1 works)