CHIN KIM is Board of Editors and Professor of California Western School of San Diego, California. 1. For an analysis of the 1947 and its English text, see McNelly, Present Constitution, 2 Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan 3-7, 9-13 (1983). Kodansha, id. at 1-3, 7-9, undertakes an analysis of the 1868 Meiji Constitution and presents its English text. This may serve as a comparison of the Meiji Constitution and the New Democratic Constitution of 1947. 2. A. Oppler, Reform of Japan's Legal and Judicial System Under Allied Occupation, 24 Wash. L. Rev. 290 (1949); A. Oppler, Legal Reform In Occupied Japan (1976); Arthur von Mehren, ed., Law In Japan (1963); L.H. Redford, ed., The Occupation of Japan: Impact of Legal Reform (1977); Upham, Law and Social C7hange in Postwar Japan (1987). 3. The literal English translation of would be or Illustrated Laws. It refers to a statute dealing with Choice-of-Law-Rules. When Germany deliberated the codification of its Civil Code in the 1880s and 1890s, the issue surfaced on how to treat International Law (Choice-of-Law-Rules) whether to have a separate statute or to incorporate into the Civil Code. The latter approach was adopted as it became the Introductory Law to the Civil Code (Das EGBGB Das Einfiihrungsgesetz zum Burgerlichen Gesetsbuche). As to the legislative history of German International see Kegel, Internationales Privatrecht 97 (4th ed. 1977); Horn, Kotz and Leser, German and Commercial Law: An Introduction, Chap. 12 (1982). On the other hand, Japan used one of the legislative drafts on Choice-of-Law rules as its model by using a separate statutory format known as Horei. The English text of the old Horei Law No. 10, June 21, 1898, appears in Ehrenzweig, Ikehara & Jensen, American-Japanese International Law 115-7 (1974), although some revisions, as discussed elsewhere, have been made since it was printed. Another English text of the old Horei, which reflects amendments made up until June 12, 1986, under the title, Law Concerning the Application of Laws in General (Horei), appears in Eibun-Horei-Sha, Inc. 1 EHS Law Bulletin Series Japan, AB (1979-), (hereafter EHS). For a discussion of Japanese Horei rules, see Ehrenzweig, Ikehara & Jensen, supra, and Danaher, Private International Law, in 6 Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan 250-2 (1963). As to the Japanese text of the old Horei, see Suzuki & Tanaka, et al., ed., Roppo Zensho (Complete Six Codes) 61-62 (1979) (hereafter Suzuki & Tanaka). As to the Japanese text of the new Horei and implementing special laws of two Hague Conventions on the Conflicts of Laws Relating to the Form of Testamentary Dispositions and on the Law Applicable to Maintenance Obligations which Japan ratified, see Ohsumi, et al., ed., Mohan Roppo (Model Six Codes) 49-53 (1991) (hereafter Ohsumi). These two special