What is the meaning of the characters ヨ・行ケ・ウ・行ウ・わ・ワ when written after the date?


[![examples of years with characters
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In doing a translation, I have come across a date which has the character ヨ
written in brackets after the year. I found some more cases of the same usage
in what seem to be legal texts, but I still can't figure out what they mean of
how to translate them. Does anyone have some insight? Do I even need to
translate them?




The characters in brackets after the year are a special form of code which
identifies a legal case as belonging to a particular category. The ヨ which you
mention indicates that the case is a civil affairs case at a district court.

A more detailed list of these 事件記録符号 (case record codes) is available here:
<http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/hirano/nyumon/fugo2005.htm>




The characters in brackets after the year are a special form of code which
identifies a legal case as belonging to a particular category. The ヨ which you
mention indicates that the case is a civil affairs case at a district court.

A more detailed list of these 事件記録符号 (case record codes) is available here:
<http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/hirano/nyumon/fugo2005.htm>

