New legal training system was established at 2004. It organically connects legal education, the national bar examination and legal training as a “process”. Law school system would be its core. Law schools have to provide the education especially for training for the legal professions (judges, prosecutors, and lawyers). Therefore the education at law school should build a bridge between theoretical education and practical education. This paper would examine that the subject of legal philosophy plays an crucial role in such new legal training system.
Legal education would be classified into two categories. These categories are the rationalistic theoretical education and the apprentice education as apprenticeship. In Japan the undergraduate schools and the postgraduate schools have given great deal of weight to the rationalistic theoretical education. But not only the theoretical education but also the apprentice education are indispensable for the education for legal professions.