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The Soma affair and family confinement in Japan
Retainer Nishikori Gōsei alleged Lord Sōma Tomotane was wrongfully confined by relatives in an inheritance dispute; the scandal produced the 1900 Mental Patients' Custody Act, which legalized home confinement (私宅監置) for 50 years
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What the record says
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- Country / period
- Japan, 1883–1895
- Mechanism
- Family confinement of a feudal lord
- What is documented
- Retainer Nishikori Gōsei alleged Lord Sōma Tomotane was wrongfully confined by relatives in an inheritance dispute; the scandal produced the 1900 Mental Patients' Custody Act, which legalized home confinement (私宅監置) for 50 years
- Finding or status
- Legislative history (Taiwanese legal abstract; Utsunomiya, JSSW 2009, Japanese)
- Limits
- The founding Japanese case is a family-inheritance dispute — direct parallel to Packard
- Label
- SUPPORTED (local-language)
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Reference and provenance
1883-JP-SOMA-INCIDENT