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], retrieved 2023-04-11:

     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.