legalism in which one makes choices based on the same set of laws that everyone else does. The women's movement in Japan has suffered some slow-ups because of this very belief and Japanese are not as willing to take a case to court. They would rather rely on the bureaucracy to take care of things. Japanese culture and it's change throughout the country's history has had and remains to be a major subject when considering the Japanese legal system.
             The history of the legal system is also an important topic when trying to understand the Japanese legal system. Prior to the Meiji restoration the system consisted of a systematic code, kujikata osadamegaki, which was a collection of statutes in a two volume series. The second volume was secret and only a set of people designated by the shogunate could access this information. It wasn't necessary for the public to know this part of the code the Tokugawa shogunate believed. After the fall of the shogun and the Formation of the Meiji Empire in 1867 the emperor felt the need to replace the feudal law code an
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