Abstract
The post war family law in Japan had liberated women from feudal oppression, however, it did not directly result in the autonomous liberation of women. This means so called "company-centralized or controlled lifestyle" type of rule over women has been continuing as if it were a result of women's subjective selection, thus women has been keeping under the established social system of the post war Japan. From 1990s, because of the hilights of women's claim to self-autonomy and to democratizaton, family law reform is at last discussing with great reality.
This essay will discuss about the role of the post war family law in the development of sexual inequality.
