19世纪末,台湾沦为日本的首块殖民地。为对台湾社会进行全面改造,日本殖民统治者打破了在台沿用200多年的行政兼理司法的传统,在台湾历史上首次引进了近代西方的司法制度;台湾近代司法制度深受日本法的影响,同时又是一个相对独立、自足的体系,展现出鲜明的殖民地法特征。 At the end of the 19th century, Taiwan became Japan's first colony. In order to comprehensively rebuild the society in Taiwan, the Japanese colonial rulers broke away from the tradition of administering the judiciary for more than 200 years in Taiwan and introduced the judicial system of the modern West for the first time in Taiwan's history. The modern judicial system in Taiwan is greatly influenced by the Japanese law At the same time, it is also a relatively independent and self-contained system that shows distinctive characteristics of colonial law.