法務部

Japanese

Kanji in this term
法 務 部
ほう
Grade: 4 		む
Grade: 5 		ぶ
Grade: 3
on'yomi goon

Etymology

Compound of 法務(ほうむ) (hōmu, “legal affairs”) + 部(ぶ) (bu, “division,department”)

Noun

法(ほう)務(む)部(ぶ) • (hōmubu) 

  1. legal affairs department
    • 2015 September 28, Colin P.A. Jones, “Where's the justice? In Japan's legal terminology, it's almost nowhere to be seen”, in The Japan Times‎[1] (in English), retrieved 11 April 2023:
      Hōmu (法務) just means “legal affairs” and thus might as well be a synonym for “boring” to many people. Corporate legal departments (hōmubu, 法務部) use the same term.
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