"The Institute’s activities initially focused on research into legal systems, primarily of Western countries, but with the development of Japan’s social and economic systems and the evolution of Japan’s own legal system, steadily increasing importance has been given to promulgating information about Japan’s legal system to Western and other Asian countries." he Institute of Comparative Law was organized at the School of Law in 1958. The institute’s mission is to make great contributions to legal studies in Japan and abroad through comparative legal research. The institute has been providing legal researches of comparative law and introducing Japanese law abroad. Also, the Library of theInstitute has been collecting a large number of foreign legal resources, especially statutes, cases, and law reviews.