The study of problems of constitutional and legal regulation using estological methods continues. The origin, development and operation of the constitutional and legal status of the state symbols of Japan is considered (an estological study of one of the institutions of Japanese constitutional law). Empirical materials and authentic documents (sources of law, acts of interpretation of law, acts of implementation and application of law) of Japan are introduced into scientific circulation. Conclusive constitutional and legal norms that have significant signs of legal and linguistic uncertainty are subject to esthological research. Based on the study of the patterns of existence of interests in constitutional law and the interests of constitutional legal regulation in Japan, conclusions are synthesized about the meaning and content of state symbols, its legal and technical features. As a result of the study, the presence of a phenomenology of interests of constitutional and legal regulation is revealed. The hypothesis is confirmed that the interests of legal regulation differ from the political interests of subjects of constitutional law.

estology, estological research, research methodology, mechanism of state power, mechanism of legal regulation, political system, value, interest, subject of constitutional and legal relations, objects of interest of constitutional and legal regulation, state symbols, flag, coat of arms, anthem, Emperor, Japan

Yurkovskiy Alexey Vladimirovich – Сandidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of State and Legal Disciplines, Irkutsk Law Institute (branch) of the University of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation (1, Shevtsova st., Irkutsk, 664035, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0000-0002-0926-8965, ResearcherID: AAH-4911-2021, RSCI AuthorID: 499288, e-mail: avyurkovsky@mail.ru

Yurkovskiy A. V. Estological study of the state symbols of Japan [Estologicheskoe issledovanie gosudarstvennoj simvoliki YAponii] Sibirskij yuridicheskij vestnik [Siberian Law Herald]. 2024, no 1(104), pp. 33–42. – DOI 10.26516/2071-8136.2024.1.33 (in Russian)

340.1

1. Batbayar Ts. Mongoliya i YAponiya v pervoj polovine HKH veka [Mongolia and Japan in the first half of the twentieth century]. Ulan-Ude, Publishing house – polygraph. Complex VSGAKI, 2002, 229 p. (in Russian)

2. Bachurin A.S. Metodologicheskie problemy izucheniya sintoizma [Methodological problems in the study of Shintoism] Religiovedenie. Nauchno-teoreticheskij zhurnal [Religious Studies. Scientific and theoretical journal], 2004. no. 4, pp. 19-31. (in Russian)

3. Galkina D.V., Yurkovsky A.V. Cennosti i anticennosti v Konstitucii YAponii [Values and anti-values in the Japanese Constitution]. Problemy sovremennogo rossijskogo zakonodatelstva [Problems of modern Russian legislation]. Materials of the III All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference. Irkutsk, 2015, pp. 78-80. (in Russian)

4. Georgiev Yu. Zakulisnyj reformator epohi Mejdzi [Behind-the-scenes reformer of the Meiji era]. Elektronnyj zhurnal «YAponiya segodnya» [Electronic magazine “Japan Today”]. Available at: japantoday.ru/arch/jur№al/0106/10.shtml (Date of access: January, 15, 2024). (in Russian)

5. Kosareva T. Gosudarstvennye simvoly YAponii [State symbols of Japan]. Available at: http://info-japan.ru/articles/gosudarstvennye-simvoly-yaponii (date of access: January, 07, 2024) (in Russian)

6. Krupyanko M.I., Areshidze L.G. YAponskij nacionalizm. Ideologiya i politika [Japanese nationalism. Ideology and politics: scientific publication of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies]. Moscow, Intern. Relations Publ., 2012, 401 p. (in Russian).

7. Kuznetsov S.I. YAsukuni dzindzya kak simvol yaponskogo nacionalizma [Yasukuni jinja as a symbol of Japanese nationalism]. Rossiya i Vostok: vzglyad iz Sibiri v nachale tysyacheletiya [Russia and the East: a view from Siberia at the beginning of the millennium]. Materials and abstracts of reports. to international scientific-practical conf. Irkutsk, Ottisk, 2002, pp. 101-105. (in Russian)

8. Markaryan S. B. Istoriya vzaimootnoshenij religii i gosudarstva v YAponii [History of the relationship between religion and state in Japan]. YAponiya [Japan]. 1998-1999. Moscow, 1999, pp. 66-83. (in Russian)

9. Mordovtseva T.V. Kulturologicheskij smysl yuridicheskoj kategorii “tradicionnaya religiya” i ee alternativy v rossijskom zakonodatelstve [Culturological meaning of the legal category “traditional religion” and its alternatives in Russian legislation]. Gosudarstvennaya vlast i mestnoe samoupravlenie [State power and local self-government], 2013, no. 12, pp. 18-21. (in Russian)

10. Nakamura Kooya. Istoriya Yaponii [History of Japan: collection. ist. prod. Ed. by I.A. Nastenko. 4th ed., erased. Moscow, Rus. Panorama Publ., 2006, 503 p. (in Russian)

11. Panov A.N. Institut imperatora i ego mesto v gosudarstvennoj sisteme sovremennoj yaponii [The institution of the emperor and its place in the state system of modern Japan]. YAponiya. Ezhegodnik [Japan. Yearbook], 2012, no. 41. Available at: http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/institut-imperatora-i-ego-mesto-v-gosudarstvennoy-sisteme-sovremennoy-yaponii (date of access: January, 16, 2024). (in Russian)

12. Slovari i enciklopedii na Akademike [Dictionaries and encyclopedias on Academician]. Available at: http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/dic_fwords/8673 (date of access: January, 16, 2024). (in Russian)

13. Odintsov V.V., Smolitskaya G.P., Golovanova E.I., Vasilevskaya I.A. SHkolnyj slovar inostrannyh slov [School dictionary of foreign words: a manual for students]. Ed. by V.V. Ivanova. Moscow, Education Publ., 1983, 207 p. (in Russian)

14. Yurkovsky A.V. YUrkovskij A.V. Kategoriya “interesy” v konstitucionnom prave YAponii [Category “interests” in Japanese constitutional law]. Akademicheskij yuridicheskij zhurnal [Academic Law Journal], 2016, no. 1 (63), pp. 46-52. (in Russian)

15. Bloom M.L. The Sangoku-Mappō construct. Buddhism, nationalism, and history in medieval Japan. Discourse and Ideology in Medieval Japanese Buddhism. NY, 2006, pp. 31-51. (in English)

16. Takekoshi Y. The Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan. London, 1930, 632 p. (in English)