ABSTRACT
Old Japan, in contrast with Old China, very early drafted legal blueprints for the superstructure of the state. In this fundamental sense, Japan has always been-at least until the recent emergence of the People’s Republic of China-far more legalistic in its governing process, as compared with the Middle Kingdom of China. Over the very edge of Japanese history (as we have seen in Chap. 1) marched grand constitutions and law codes, evidence that the Japanese tried to accept literally what the Chinese meant figuratively.
