How have we appreciated structural reformation of our society in 90's? Whether our society in 90's was reformation decade or lost one? This paper aims to reply these difficult questions, by examining how we discuss our society in 90's.
In the first section in order to suggest characteristics of our society in 90's, some legal reformations and discussion on them are picked up and examined. We can consider from view of three points, a) the change of legislating process, b) the transformation of modern/traditional legal agent, c) the changing the role of state and local government, and summarize these point into the reconstruction of the public and the private.
The second section analyzes the changing issues in debate of a theory of justice in 70's-90's, the characteristics of 90's. In 90's discussion on justice have focused on re-examination individual or unsituated self, and research on individualism and concept of individual, community and state, and relationship each others in Japanese context. And theories of civil society, which is began to discuss frequently, presents' new type of conception of our society and background of globalization and disturbance of national state system.
The common characteristics of these several modes of discussion on our social is desire for public philosophy. It suggests the reformation of social structure and need of new concept and reconstruction of the public and the private.
Third section considers the relationship between the conceptions of some legal reformation and several modes of our discussion about our society in 90's, from the view of reconstruction of the public and private.
