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became its preparatory department. The president of the school is Mr. Kato Hinoyuki, the President of the Imperial University; and the Dean is Dr. Yamawaki Gen. The actual teaching staff numbers seven, three of these — Messrs. Lönholm, Nippold, and Wernicke — being foreigners specially engaged for this school. The course is as follows : —
stance, is its chief patron, a distinction which only one other school can boast); it is at tended by a good class of students, and its instruction is of the best. Its special merit is the attention it pays to Roman Law; for, as will be seen from the curricula, the aver age Japanese student is cut off from any con siderable acquaintance with the historical associations of the new national law.
FIRST YEAR. Hours per week.
Commercial Law Civil Code German Criminal Law Criminal Procedure Civil Procedure Practical Cases
6 3 2 i 2 i
SECOND YEAR. Criminal Code German Criminal Law Roman Law Civil Procedure Civil Code International Law Economics
.2 2 5 i 3 3 3
THIRD YEAR. International Law 3 Roman Law 2 Criminal Code i Economics 6 Constitutional and Administrative Law . . 3 The number of graduates has been, in 1888, 13; in 1889, y; in 1890, 7; and in 1891, 19. The present students number 95 in the Law Department, and 329 in the Preparatory Department. As a knowledge of German is a requirement, entrance to the Law Department is practically open only to those who graduate from the Preparatory Department, which aims at giving a Middle School education. The annual fee is fifteen yen, the entrance fee being one yen. The school is working without ostentation, and the more thorough quality of its training does not tend to make it a popular one. But it has influential backing ( Prince Kitashirakawa of the Imperial family, for in
5. Law Institute {formerly English Law School). We come next to the most popular school in Tokyo, the great representative of AngloAmerican law, now known as the Law Insti tute {Hogaku-In). Up to 1885 the only place where English law could be studied was the Imperial University. In that year a few of the graduates of that institution, realizing that the new Codes existed no longer in imagination only, and were to be opposed then, if ever, and desiring at the same time to furnish greater facilities for the study of Anglo-American law, and to create a popular feeling in its favor, met and took measures to found a law school. The committee consisted of Messrs. Takahashi Kazumasa (an English barrister now de ceased, whom reputation names as the greatest member of the Tokyo Bar, past or present), Masujima Rokuichiro (an English barrister, the most successful of living prac titioners), Okayama Kanekichi (now always named among the loaders of the bar), and Takahashi Kenzo (editor of the " Official Gazette "). The school was opened in the fall of 1885 with 97 students; the number now enrolled falls a little short of 1,200. The daily at tendance is from 500' to 600. The gradu ates numbered, in 1886, 4; in 1887, 18; in 1888, 51; in 1889, 143; in 1890, 309; in 1891, 343. In 1886 two sections were formed, one studying from English text books expounded in Japanese, the other conducted in Japanese entirely. About one third of the students belong to the former section, their training in English having usu
