Bankruptcy Act

An interested person may make a request to the court clerk for the inspection of documents and any other materials (referred to below as "documents and other materials" in this Article and Article 12, paragraph (1) of the following Article) submitted to the court or prepared by the court pursuant to the provisions of this Act (including other Acts as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this Act; the same applies in paragraph (1) of the following Article).

An interested person may make a request to the court clerk to copy documents and other materials, or to issue an authenticated copy, transcript, or extract of documents and other materials, or to issue a certificate of matters concerning the case, etc..

Pursuant to the provisions of the Rules of the Supreme Court, an interested person may make a request to the court clerk to inspect matters recorded in computer files (excluding the following paragraph, paragraph (3), and the following Article; simply referred to below as "computer files") (referred to below in this Article and Article 12, paragraph (6) as "information from the court's computer files") stored on a computer (including its input and output devices; the same applies below) used by the court pursuant to the provisions of this Act displayed in a manner prescribed by the Rules of the Supreme Court.

An interested person may make a request to the court clerk, pursuant to the provisions of the Rules of the Supreme Court, to copy the information from the court's computer files by means of recording the matters in computer files stored on a computer used by the person by using an electronic data processing system (meaning an electronic data processing system connecting a computer used by the court to a computer used by the other party using the procedure via a telecommunications line; the same applies below) or any other method prescribed by the Rules of the Supreme Court.

An interested person may make a request to the court clerk, pursuant to the provisions of the Rules of the Supreme Court, to issue a paper document stating all or part of the information from the court's computer files as certified by the court clerk to contain information in the paper document identical to the information from the court's computer files according to the methods prescribed by the Rules of the Supreme Court, or to provide an electronic or magnetic record (meaning any record which is produced by electronic, magnetic, or any other means unrecognizable by natural perceptive senses and is used for information processing by a computer; the same applies below) containing all or part of the information from the court's computer files as certified by the court clerk to contain information identical to the information from the court's computer files according to the methods prescribed by the Rules of the Supreme Court, by means of recording it in computer files stored on a computer used by the person via an electronic information processing system prescribed by the Rules of the Supreme Court or any other method prescribed by the Rules of the Supreme Court.

As provided for by the Rules of the Supreme Court, an interested person may make a request to the court clerk to issue a paper document stating the matters involved in the case as certified by the court clerk with respect to the matters according to the methods prescribed by the Rules of the Supreme Court, or to provide an electronic or magnetic record containing the matters as certified by the court clerk with respect to the matters according to the methods prescribed by the Rules of the Supreme Court, by means of recording it in computer files stored on a computer used by the person via an electronic information process system or any other method prescribed by the Rules of the Supreme Court.

Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding three Articles, a person stated in the following items may not make a request under the provisions of the preceding three Articles until the order, provisional order, or judicial decision specified in the respective item is issued or made; provided, however, that this does not apply when the relevant person is a petitioner for commencement of bankruptcy proceedings;

an interested person other than the debtor:a suspension order under the provisions of Article 24, paragraph (1), comprehensive stay order prescribed in Article 25, paragraph (2), provisional order under the provisions of Article 28, paragraph (1), order for temporary administration prescribed in Article 91, paragraph (2), provisional order under the provisions of Article 171, paragraph (1) or judicial decision on a petition to commence bankruptcy proceedings; or

the debtor:a judicial decision to designate the date for oral argument concerning for interrogation or date on which the debtor is to be summoned to appear with respect to a petition to commence bankruptcy proceedings, or any order, provisional order, or judicial decision as specified in the preceding item.

If, with regard to the following documents and other materials, a prima facie showing is made to the effect that there is a part (referred to belowthe documents, etc. in this Article as the "detrimental part")question contain parts likely to be significantly detrimental to the administration or realization of the bankruptcy estate (prior to the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings, the debtor's property) if an interested person conductsit is subject to the inspection or copying of them, the , issuance of an authenticated copy, transcripttranscription, or extract of them, or extraction or reproduction (hereinafter referred to as "access" in this paragraph through paragraph (3)) conducted by an interested person (the reproductionpart of them (documents, etc. is referred to below as the "detrimental part" in this Article as "access"), the courtparagraph through paragraph (3)), upon the petition of thea bankruptcy trustee or temporary administrator that submitted the documents and other materials, etc. in question, the court may limit the persons that may make a request for access toof the detrimental part to the person that has filed the petition (if that person isin case the petition has been filed by a temporary administrator, the temporary administrator or a bankruptcy trustee; the same applies in the following paragraph):

The provisions of the preceding paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis to information from the court's computer files. In this case, the phrase "copying, issuance of an authenticated copy, transcription, or extraction or reproduction" in paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "copying, issuance of certifying all or part of the content, or provision of electronic or magnetic record certifying all or part of the content".

Except as otherwise specially provided, when there are special provisions, unless contrary to their nature, the provisions of Part I1 through Part IV4 of the Code of Civil Procedure (excluding Article 71, paragraph (2), Article 91-2, Article 92, paragraphs (9) and (10), Article 92-2, paragraph (2), Article 94, Article 100, paragraph (2), Part I, Chapter V, Section 4, Subsection 3, Article 111, Part I, Chapter VII, Article 133-2, paragraphs (5) and (6),apply mutatis mutandis to bankruptcy proceedings, etc. In this case, the phrase "excluding a person that became a litigation representative with approval pursuant to the proviso to Article 133-354, paragraph (2), Article 151, paragraph (3), 1))" in Article 160132-11, paragraph (21), Article 185, paragraph (3), Article 205, paragraph (2), Article 215, paragraph (2), Article 227, paragraph (2), and Article 232-2 of that Code) apply mutatis mutandis to bankruptcy proceedings, etc., to the extent that they are not contrary to their nature. In this case, item (i) of the Code of Civil Procedure, is deemed to be replaced with "limited to an attorney at law) or person appointed as a bankruptcy trustee, temporary administrator, bankruptcy trustee representative, or temporary administrator representative", "the phrases set outdelegation" in the middle column of the Appended Table in that item is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of that Code set outdelegation or appointment", and "Article 2" in the upper columnitem (ii) of that Table areparagraph is deemed to be replaced with the phrases set out in the lower column of that Table, respectively"Article 2 of that Code applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 9".