①A judicial decision concerning bankruptcy proceedings, etc. may be made without oral argument.

②The court may conduct necessary investigation on a case related to bankruptcy proceedings, etc. by its own authority.

①A summons for an appearance date in bankruptcy proceedings, etc. is made by serving a writ of summons, by announcing the date to a person who has appeared in connection with the case in question, or by any other means found to be appropriate.

②If a summons for an appearance date is made other than through the service of a writ of summons or an announcement of the date to a person who has appeared in connection with the case in question, no legal sanction or other disadvantage may be attributed to a person who does not appear on that date; however, this does not apply if the relevant person has submitted a document stating that the person has received a summons for the appearance date.

Service by publication in bankruptcy proceedings, etc. is effected by posting, at the posting area for the court, a notice to the effect that the court clerk retains the documents to be served and will deliver them to the person who is to be served at any time.

①Of the petitions and other statements in bankruptcy proceedings, etc. (referred to below in this Article as a "petition or statement"), a petition or statement that is to be filed by means of a paper document, etc. (meaning a paper document, piece of writing, document, transcript, extract, authenticated copy, duplicate copy, extra copy, or other piece of paper or tangible object bearing information that can be perceived by the human senses, such as characters or shapes; the same applies in the following paragraph and paragraph (4)) pursuant to the provisions of this Act or other laws and regulations relevant to the petition or statement, and that is filed with a court specified by the Supreme Court (including one filed with the presiding judge, authorized judge, commissioned judge, or court clerk of that court), may, notwithstanding the provisions of those laws and regulations, be filed by using an electronic data processing system (meaning an electronic data processing system connecting a computer used by the court (including its input and output devices; the same applies in this paragraph and paragraph (3)) to a computer used by the person filing the petition or statement via a telecommunications line), as provided for by the Rules of the Supreme Court.

②A petition or statement filed pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is deemed to have been filed by means of a paper document, etc. prescribed in the provisions of the laws and regulations relevant to the petition or statement, in which it is provided that the petition or statement is to be filed by means of a paper document, etc., and the provisions of the laws and regulations relevant to the petition or statement apply.

③A petition or statement filed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) is deemed to have arrived at the court as referred to in that paragraph when it is recorded in a file stored on the computer used by that court.

④Notwithstanding the provisions of other laws and regulations relevant to the petition or statement, in the case referred to in paragraph (1), a person filing a petition or statement that is to bear a signature, etc. (meaning the relevant person's signature, name, or seal or other inclusion of the relevant person's name or trade name in the paper document, etc.; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) pursuant to the provisions of those laws and regulations, in lieu of affixing this signature, etc., is to take measures to clarify the name or trade name of the person filing the petition or statement, as provided for by the Rules of the Supreme Court.

⑤When a petition or statement filed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) has been recorded in the file prescribed in paragraph (3), the court as referred to in paragraph (1) is to output the contents of the data recorded in the file in the form of a paper document.

⑥The inspection or copying of documents and other materials relating to a case, or the issuance of an authenticated copy, transcript, or extract thereof, under the provisions of this Act or other laws and regulations in relation to a petition or statement filed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), is to be effected by means of the paper document referred to in the preceding paragraph. The same applies to the service or sending of documents relating to the petition or statement.

①When a written judgment is prepared for a judicial decision concerning bankruptcy proceedings, etc., the main text, the parties and legal representatives, and the court relating to the judicial decision must be stated in the written judgment.

②When the written judgment referred to in the preceding paragraph is served, the service is to be made by means of an authenticated copy of the written judgment.

A person that has an interest in a judicial decision concerning bankruptcy proceedings, etc., only as specially provided for in this Act, may file an immediate appeal against the judicial decision. The period for filing is two weeks from the day on which the public notice becomes effective if a public notice of the juridical decision is made.

①A public notice under the provisions of this Act is made public in the Official Gazette.

②A public notice becomes effective on the day following the day on which it is published.

③If a service is required to be made pursuant to the provisions of this Act, it may be substituted by a public notice; provided, however, that this does not apply if both public notice and service are required to be made pursuant to the provisions of this Act.

④When a public notice of a judicial decision is made pursuant to the provisions of this Act, it is deemed that all interested parties are notified of the judicial decision.

⑤The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs do not apply if special provisions exist in this Act.

①An 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 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).

②An interested person may make a request to the court clerk to copy documents and other materials, to issue an authenticated copy, transcript, or extract of documents and other materials, or to issue a certificate of matters concerning the case.

③The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply with respect to documents and other materials which are prepared in the form of audiotapes or videotapes (including objects onto which a fixed set of information has been recorded by any equivalent means). In this case, upon the request of an interested person with regard to these materials, the court clerk must permit the reproduction of the documents and other materials prepared in audiotapes or videotapes.

④Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs, a person stated in the following items may not make a request under the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs until the order, provisional order, or judicial decision specified in the respective item is issued or made; provided, however, that this does not apply if the relevant person is a petitioner for commencement of bankruptcy proceedings:

①If, 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 below in this Article as the "detrimental part") 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 conducts the inspection or copying of them, the issuance of an authenticated copy, transcript, or extract of them, or the reproduction of them (referred to below in this Article as "access"), the court, upon the petition of the bankruptcy trustee or temporary administrator that submitted the documents and other materials in question, may limit the persons that may make a request for access to the detrimental part to the person that has filed the petition (if that person is a temporary administrator, the temporary administrator or a bankruptcy trustee; the same applies in the following paragraph):

②When the petition stated in the preceding paragraph is filed, an interested person (excluding the one who filed the petition stated in that paragraph; the same applies in the following paragraph) may not make a request for access of the detrimental part until a judicial decision on the petition becomes final and binding.

③An interested person that intends to make a request for access of the detrimental part may file a petition to the bankruptcy court for reversal of the order issued under the provisions of paragraph (1), on the grounds that the requirement prescribed in that paragraph is not met or is no longer met.

④An immediate appeal may be filed against an order dismissing the petition stated in paragraph (1), and a judicial decision on the petition stated in the preceding paragraph.

⑤An order to reverse the order under the provisions of paragraph (1) does not become effective unless it becomes final and binding.

Except as otherwise specially provided, the provisions of Part I through Part IV 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), Article 133-3, paragraph (2), Article 151, paragraph (3), Article 160, paragraph (2), 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, the phrases set out in the middle column of the Appended Table in the provisions of that Code set out in the upper column of that Table are deemed to be replaced with the phrases set out in the lower column of that Table, respectively.

Beyond what is provided for in this Act, the necessary particulars concerning bankruptcy proceedings, etc. are specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court.