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The ie (家) or "household" was the basic unit of Japanese law, from the founding of the Meiji Civil Code in 1896, [1] until the end of World War II: most civil and criminal matters were considered to involve families rather than individuals. The ie was considered to consist of grandparents, their son and his wife and their children, although ...
The Imperial House Law of 1889 was the first Japanese law to regulate the imperial succession. Until October 1947, when it was abolished and replaced with the Imperial Household Law, it defined the succession to the throne under the principle of agnatic primogeniture. In all instances, the succession proceeded from the eldest male heir to the ...
A koseki (戸籍) or family register [1] [2] is a Japanese family registry. Japanese law requires all Japanese households (basically defined as married couples and their unmarried children) to make notifications of their vital records (such as births, adoptions, deaths, marriages and divorces) to their local authority, which compiles such records encompassing all Japanese citizens within their ...
Prohibited degree of kinship. In law, a prohibited degree of kinship refers to a degree of consanguinity (blood relatedness), or sometimes affinity (relation by marriage or sexual relationship) between persons that makes sex or marriage between them illegal. An incest taboo between parent and child or two full-blooded siblings is a cultural ...
v. t. e. Jus sanguinis (English: / dʒʌs ˈsæŋɡwɪnɪs / juss SANG-gwin-iss[1] or / juːs -/ yooss -, [2] Latin: [juːs ˈsaŋɡwɪnɪs]), meaning 'right of blood', is a principle of nationality law by which nationality is determined or acquired by the nationality of one or both parents. [3][4] Children at birth may be nationals of a ...
The Imperial House (皇室, Kōshitsu), also referred to as the Imperial family or the Yamato dynasty, is the dynasty and imperial family of Japan, consisting of those members of the extended family of the reigning emperor of Japan who undertake official and public duties. Under the present constitution of Japan, the emperor is "the symbol of ...
Japanese imperial succession debate. The Japanese imperial family tree as of February 2022. From 2001 to 2006, Japan discussed the possibility of changing the laws of succession to the Chrysanthemum Throne, which is currently limited to males of the Japanese imperial family. As of September 2024, there are three people in the line of succession ...
Japanese adult adoption is the practice in Japan of legally and socially accepting a nonconsanguineal adult into an offspring role of a family. The centuries-old practice was developed as a mechanism for families to extend their family name, estate and ancestry without an unwieldy reliance on blood lines. Still common today, adult adoption is a ...