日本民法上 祭祀財産承繼規定의 變遷에 관한 小考

It is a tradition for Japanese and Korean to worship their ancestors, and to consider religious services for the worship as important events. It is not rare, even today, to visit their ancestors’ graves in the memory of them. Japanese politicians and lawmakers have intervened that tradition through revising laws. For instance, Myunchi civil law defined a succession of property for ancestor worship as the privileged right of ‘headship(in Korean, “kadok”) inheritance.’ However, after the War, there were a lot of debates and criticisms on that issue. And finally, the revision of law made a family system and ‘headship inheritance’ abolished. The purpose of this paper is to clarify what kind of debates and criticisms were there, to find out how the law revised at that time, and to search the current theories and case laws on that issue in Japan as well. I hope that this research and study could suggest the problems and solutions on the regime for a Korean succession of property for ancestor worship.