| Legal Reform in Occupied Japan: A Participant Looks Back: A Participant Looks Back Subjects: Law reform -- Japan; Japan -- Constitutional law; Justice Administration of -- Japan; Japan -- History -- Allied occupation 1945-1952; After a distinguished career as a jurist in Germany, Alfred Oppler came to the United States in 1939, and in 1946 was invited to Tokyo, where he was SCAP's authority on reform of the Japanese legal order to implement the principles of the new Constitution. Here is his account of the legal reforms and the methods used to achieve them. |