Westernization of Asian Law and Asian Identities

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In promoting support for the drafting and/or enhancement of laws in Asian countries, it is important to objectively analyze the tense relationship between Asian and Western cultural frameworks, before attempting to understand dissimilarities and compare legal cultures among Asian countries. This paper refers to the importance of coordination of transplanting laws and Asian legal traditions and legal cultures through Japan’s experience of those assistance for legal reform to Asian countries and also tries to discuss how to theorize and develop its methodology on the premise that it is possible to compare laws and legal cultures of Asian worlds with those of the West as well as how to theorize it on the premise that it is possible to compare laws and legal cultures of Asian countries.