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Legal Edîication in Modern yapan. i. The Law Department of the Imperial of specialized departments of Law, Engineer ing, Medicine, and so forth. Alongside of the University. The present Imperial University was Higher Middle Schools exist a few private institutions in Tokyo and Kyoto, giving sim formed in 1886 by uniting the Tokyo Uni ilar instruction, but usually of not so high a versity with the Engineering College. The grade. One of these, Keiogijuku, has added former in its Law Department was the result a university department, with schools of Law, of an amalgamation of the Tokyo Law School Literature, and Economics; and the Doshisha (established in 1871 by the Judicial Depart of Kyoto is preparing a similar addition. ment) with the Tokyo University, — a pro

tean institution which, But the vast majority of intending law stu under various names, traced its beginnings dents, after leaving the Middle School, go back to Tokugawa for their legal training times, and had, in the to the so-called spe course of its history, cial schools (technical absorbed a polytechnic they should, perhaps, and a medical school, with other minor insti be named). These are tutions. The first law private institutions, course dated from offering a course three years in length. They 1873; but the real strength of the Law are successful in com Department came petition with the uni from the Tokyo Law versities, not only be School, among whose cause they are easier to enter and save the graduates — some student a few years' thirty in number — time, but because they one finds most of the cater more to the leading French law tastes of the student yers of to-day in community, and be Japan. As the de cause membership in partment is now or them involves a mini MIYAZAKl MICHISAHURO ganized, graduation mum restraint of lib (Of the Imperial University.) from a Higher Mid erty in respect to at dle School or the at tendance, choice of studies, and other mat tainment of an equivalent degree of know ters. These attractions, and the fact that ledge, is required for admission; but practi Several of them bring to their students, cally none but graduates of these institutions equally with the Government University, enter. The ordinary fee is two and a half a0 exemption from conscription, make up yen (the yen is now worth about seventy-five cents) per month; but a student of good de for the special advantages which the lat ter has in respect to scholarships and to portment and high scholarship may be ex prizes in the shape of Government positions. cused from payment, and may, if necessary, Of the four thousand law students in Tokyo borrow annually not more than eighty-five some ninety-five per cent attend the special yen as a loan scholarship. How many avail schools. themselves of these privileges I do not know. Taking the chief institutions in the order The total number of students in 1886 was of their establishment, we find, — 130; in 1891, 308. But here, as in most of