Japan
| Legal system family | Common law + Civil law |
| How the law works | Based on Germanic civil law and the Japanese civil code of 1895. However, Japanese law does include common law elements: the 1948 Japanese Code of Criminal Procedure provides that verdicts from lower courts that conflict with Supreme Court precedents may be used as evidence on appeal. A precedent is considered stronger if resulting from a verdict made in the Grand Bench. Therefore, while Supreme Court precedents do not necessarily force courts to uphold them, they are studied extensively by Japanese law students. |
| Form of government | constitutional monarchy |
| Constitution | Constitution of Japan |
| Legislature | National Diet |
| Highest court | Supreme Court of Japan |
| Head of state | Naruhito |
| Head of government | Sanae Takaichi |
| Age of majority | 18 |
| Minimum marriage age | 18 |
| Retirement age | 60 |
| Official languages | Japanese |
| Capital | Tokyo |
| Continent | Asia |
| Population | 123,802,000 |
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