If a person effecting service of a document does not find the person that is to be served at the non-workplace location where service is to be effected, the document may be delivered to an employee or other worker, or to a person that lives with the person to be served, who will exercise reasonable discretion concerning the receipt of that document. The same applies if a person engaging in postal services is to deliver the document at the business office of Japan Post Co., Ltd.
就業場所以外の書類の送達をすべき場所において送達を受けるべき者に出会わないときは、使用人その他の従業者又は同居者であって、書類の受領について相当のわきまえのあるものに書類を交付することができる。郵便の業務に従事する者が日本郵便株式会社の営業所において書類を交付すべきときも、同様とする。
If a person effecting service does not find the person to be served at their workplace (including if the place reported in the notification submitted pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of Article 104, paragraph (1) is the workplace) and another person stated in Article 103, paragraph (2) or that person's legal representative or employee or other worker who will exercise reasonable discretion concerning the receipt of a document does not refuse to have the document delivered to them, the document may be delivered to such a person.
If a person that is to be served or a person to whom a document is to be delivered pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of paragraph (1) refuses to service or refuses delivery of the document without a legitimate reason for refusing to do so, the document may be left at a place where service of the document may be effected.
送達を受けるべき者又は第一項前段の規定により書類の交付を受けるべき者が正当な理由なくこれを受けることを拒んだときは、書類の送達をすべき場所に書類を差し置くことができる。
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(Place for Service)
If the place specified in the preceding paragraph is unknown or there is an obstacle to effecting service at that place, service of documents may be effected at another person's address…
前項に定める場所が知れないとき、又はその場所において送達をするのに支障があるときは、書類の送達は、送達を受けるべき者が雇用、委任その他の法律上の行為に基づき就業する他人の住所等（以下「就業場所」という。）においてすることができる。
Open this provision(Notifying the Court of the Place for Service)
The party, legal representative, or litigation representative must notify the court in charge of the case of the place or places where the relevant person may be served with documents…
当事者、法定代理人又は訴訟代理人は、書類の送達を受けるべき場所（日本国内に限る。）を受訴裁判所に届け出なければならない。この場合においては、送達受取人をも届け出ることができる。
Open this provision(Substituted Service and Service by Leaving Documents)
If a person effecting service of a document does not find the person that is to be served at the non-workplace location where service is to be effected…
就業場所以外の書類の送達をすべき場所において送達を受けるべき者に出会わないときは、使用人その他の従業者又は同居者であって、書類の受領について相当のわきまえのあるものに書類を交付することができる。郵便の業務に従事する者が日本郵便株式会社の営業所において書類を交付すべきときも、同様とする。
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「就業場所」
The domicile, residence, place of business or business office of another person at which the person to be served works under employment, a mandate (委任) or another legal act — a place where documents may be served on them.
Short name set inArticle 103, paragraph (2)
service
送達
The delivery of a document in a court proceeding, such as a lawsuit, to the person it is for, by a procedure the law lays down: unless a provision says otherwise, the court carries it out of its own motion, the court clerk handles the work (Code of Civil Procedure, Article 98), and the person who effects it reports on it to the court in writing (Article 100, paragraph (1)); the complaint must be served on the defendant (Article 138, paragraph (1)), and the judgment on the parties (Article 255, paragraph (1)). A document is served by post or by a court enforcement officer (執行官) (Article 101, paragraph (1)), as a rule by handing it to the person (Article 102-2), at their address, residence, place of business or office, or at their workplace where those are unknown or service there meets an obstacle (Article 103); each party, legal representative and litigation representative (訴訟代理人) must tell the court a place in Japan where they are to be served (Article 104, paragraph (1)), and service abroad is made at the presiding judge's request to that country's authorities or to a Japanese ambassador, minister or consul there (Article 108). If the person is not found at a place other than their workplace, the document may be handed to an employee or a person living with them who can be trusted to receive it, and if it is refused without a legitimate reason it may be left there (Article 106, paragraphs (1) and (3)); where it cannot be served in those ways, the court clerk may send it by registered mail, and it counts as served when it is sent (Article 107, paragraphs (1) and (3)). An electronic record can also be served through the courts' electronic system on a person who has registered for it, by making it available to them and sending them a notice, and that service takes effect when they view it or save it to their computer, or one week after the notice was sent, whichever comes first (Articles 109-2, paragraph (1), and 109-3, paragraph (1)); a person who must make filings online, such as a litigation representative (訴訟代理人) entrusted with the case, can be served this way even without registering, and without a notice, the week then running from when the record was made available (Articles 109-4 and 132-11, paragraph (1)). Where a party's address or other place for service is unknown, among other cases, the court clerk may serve by publication (公示送達), on petition or where the court orders it, and serves the same party by publication again of the clerk's own motion, as a rule (Article 110, paragraphs (1) to (3)): that the clerk holds the document and will hand it over at any time is made available for anyone to view, by a method the Supreme Court's rules (最高裁判所規則) set, and posted on the court's notice board or shown on a screen at the court (Article 111), and service takes effect two weeks after that begins, or six weeks for service to be made abroad, though one made again of the clerk's own motion takes effect the day after it begins (Article 112, paragraphs (1) and (2)). Some time limits run from service: an appeal to the court of second instance (控訴), for one, must be filed within two weeks of the day the judgment is served (Article 285).
Written by AI using Code of Civil Procedure, Arts. 98, 100 to 104, 106 to 112, 132-11, 138, 255, 285 as a reference.