當代日本的民事訴訟

The Contemporary Civil Action in Japan

本論文的目的是介紹日本民事訴訟在當代的一些情況，並且從程序法的視角加以較深入的考察。作者首先以審判的正當性理論為軸，將訴訟目的論及程序保障論等學說主張作為考察對象，就第二次世界大戰後日本民事訴訟法學學說的發展及現狀做了詳細的介紹和系統的梳理，並加入了作者自身的分析考察。其次作者又以訴訟主體之間的職能分工問題及程序的非正式化問題為重點，就有關審理程序論近年的學說狀況進行了考察，並對近幾年來日本民事訴訟程序改革的新動向也做了介紹。

The purpose of this paper is to introduce several aspects of contemporary civil lawsuits in Japan, and to examine these aspects from the perspective of the procedural legal theory. First, the author, based on the theory of the judicial legitimacy, describes the postwar development and the present -- day feature of the doctrines of code of civil procedure in Japan, with a view to the theories of the purpose of lawsuits and of the due process of law, and then, he offers his own opinions on these subjects. Second, he examines the contemporary discussion on Judicial pattern, focusing on the division of roles of the parties and on the informalization of the legal procedure, and also, he presents the trend of the reformation of the civil procedure of late years in Japan.