ABSTRACT
This Chapter surveys the some issues based upon the abovementioned notion of the nation-state. It explores the question of the ways in which gender relations in Japan have been integrated into the state's fundamental laws and embedded in the legal system, and what kind of gender relations have been configured in the process of the formation of the modern Japanese nation-state and society. The chapter examines is the distinctive features that those gender relations which were established during the formation of the modern age brought about in the structure of the Japanese state and society. It considers what kind of sensations and consciousness they shaped; in what way they developed into the habitus of the people; and how people confronted or resisted those social norms and internalised structures. The Chapter analyses selected examples of discussions concerning the family in the drafting of the Meiji Civil Code.
