Chapter VIII Concealing Parties' Domiciles and Identifying Information
第八章 当事者に対する住所、氏名等の秘匿
Article 133Concealing a Petitioner's Domicile or Identifying Information
第百三十三条（申立人の住所、氏名等の秘匿）
If a person filing a motion or statement or that person's legal representative makes a prima facie showing that disclosure of the whole or part of the information about the person's or legal representative's domicile, residence, or other place at which they are ordinarily present (referred to below as the person's or representative's "address" in this paragraph and the following paragraph) to a party would be likely to substantially interfere with their public life, the court may, upon application, reach a judicial decision in the form of a ruling to anonymize the whole or part of the person's or representative's address. The same applies with regard to the name of a person filing a motion or statement or that person's legal representative or any other information sufficient to identify that person or representative (referred to below as "identifying information" in the following paragraph).
When a person files the petition referred to in the preceding paragraph, they must file a notification with the court, in writing or by any other means specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court, indicating the address or identifying information of the person filing the motion or statement referred to in that paragraph or of that person's legal representative (referred to below as the "person seeking anonymity" in this Chapter; the address and identifying information of a person seeking anonymity are referred to as the "personal information of a person seeking anonymity" in paragraph (2) of the following Article) and indicating other information specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court.
Once a petition as referred to in paragraph (1) has been filed, no person other than the person seeking anonymity whom the petition concerns may request access to the part of a case record or filing records (meaning a case record or the records of a case in which there has been a petition for a disposition as referred to in Article 132-4, paragraph (1); the same applies in this Chapter) that contain information indicated in the notification under the provisions of the preceding paragraph (referred to as the "part of a record containing information indicated in an anonymity notification" in the following Article) (access to a case record or filing records means access to a case record, access to a hard-copy record of a disposition on the collection of evidence, or access to an electronic or magnetic record of a disposition on the collection of evidence; the same applies in this Chapter) until the judicial decision on that petition becomes final and binding.
第一項の申立てがあったときは、その申立てについての裁判が確定するまで、当該申立てに係る秘匿対象者以外の者は、訴訟記録等（訴訟記録又は第百三十二条の四第一項の処分の申立てに係る事件の記録をいう。以下この章において同じ。）中前項の規定による届出に係る部分（次条において「秘匿事項届出部分」という。）について訴訟記録等の閲覧等（訴訟記録の閲覧等、非電磁的証拠収集処分記録の閲覧等又は電磁的証拠収集処分記録の閲覧等をいう。以下この章において同じ。）の請求をすることができない。
An immediate appeal may be filed against a judicial decision denying the petition referred to in paragraph (1).
第一項の申立てを却下した裁判に対しては、即時抗告をすることができる。
When the court issues a ruling as referred to in paragraph (1) with regard to the domicile or name of a person seeking anonymity (referred to below as an "anonymity ruling" in this Chapter), it must specify, in that ruling, information that will be used in place of the domicile or name of the person seeking anonymity. To apply the provisions of this Code or of other laws and regulations in such a case if information used in place of a domicile or name has been entered or recorded in proceedings in the case in question or in a counterclaim, intervention, judicial enforcement, provisional seizure, or provisional disposition related to that case, the domicile or name of the person seeking anonymity is deemed to have been entered or recorded.
第百三十三条の二（秘匿決定があった場合における閲覧等の制限の特則）
When an anonymity ruling has been made, it limits the persons who may request access to a part of a case records or filing records containing information indicated in an anonymity notification to the person seeking anonymity who is covered by that ruling.
In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the court, upon petition, may issue a ruling limiting persons who may request access to a part of the case records or filing records that does not contain information indicated in an anonymity notification but that does contain the personal information of a person seeking anonymity or information which can be used to infer the personal information of a person seeking anonymity (referred to below as a "part of a record containing the personal information of a person seeking anonymity" in this Article), to the person seeking anonymity who is covered by the anonymity ruling.
Once a petition as referred to in the preceding paragraph has been filed, a person other than the person seeking anonymity who has petitioned for the anonymity ruling may not request access to a part of a record containing the personal information of the person seeking anonymity until a judicial decision on the petition becomes final and binding.
An immediate appeal may be filed against a judicial decision denying the petition referred to in paragraph (2).
第二項の申立てを却下した裁判に対しては、即時抗告をすることができる。
If a petition under paragraph (2) is filed, and if the court finds it to be necessary, it may output the content of the parts of the electronic or magnetic case records or filing records (meaning the electronic or magnetic case records or a part of the information from the court's computer files that appears in the records of a case in which there has been a petition for a disposition as referred to in Article 132-4, paragraph (1); the same applies in this paragraph and the following paragraph) containing the personal information of a person seeking anonymity into paper format or record them onto another recording medium, as well as taking measures to delete them from the electronic or magnetic case records or filing records or any other measures specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court as necessary and appropriate to securely manage the part of the records containing the personal information of a person seeking anonymity.
裁判所は、第二項の申立てがあった場合において、必要があると認めるときは、電磁的訴訟記録等（電磁的訴訟記録又は第百三十二条の四第一項の処分の申立てに係る事件の記録中ファイル記録事項に係る部分をいう。以下この項及び次項において同じ。）中当該秘匿事項記載部分につき、その内容を書面に出力し、又はこれを他の記録媒体に記録するとともに、当該部分を電磁的訴訟記録等から消去する措置その他の当該秘匿事項記載部分の安全管理のために必要かつ適切なものとして最高裁判所規則で定める措置を講ずることができる。
If the measures to delete content from electronic or magnetic case records or filing records under the provisions of the preceding paragraph have been taken but a subsequent judicial decision denying the petition under paragraph (2) becomes final and binding or a subsequent judicial decision setting aside the decision on the petition becomes final and binding, the court clerk must record those parts of the records containing the personal information of the person seeking anonymity into the court's computer files.
第百三十三条の三（送達をすべき場所等の調査嘱託があった場合における閲覧等の制限の特則）
If, in order to serve a party or their legal representative, the court commissions an investigation into a party's or legal representative's domicile or residence or into any other place where they are to be served, and the court finds there to be a clear likelihood that allowing the inspection of a paper document or electronic or magnetic record containing a report of the results of the commissioned investigation would substantially interfere with that party's or legal representative's public life, it may issue a ruling limiting the persons permitted to request access to that document or record, to paper documents or electronic or magnetic records under Article 100 concerning service effected based on the report, and to any other case records or filing records connected with similar paper documents or electronic or magnetic records, to the party or legal representative in question. This also applies if the court commissions an investigation into the name of a party or their legal representative and other information sufficient to identify them, for the purpose of identifying the party or their legal representative.
裁判所は、当事者又はその法定代理人に対して送達をするため、その者の住所、居所その他送達をすべき場所についての調査を嘱託した場合において、当該嘱託に係る調査結果の報告が記載され、又は記録された書面又は電磁的記録が閲覧されることにより、当事者又はその法定代理人が社会生活を営むのに著しい支障を生ずるおそれがあることが明らかであると認めるときは、決定で、当該書面又は電磁的記録及びこれに基づいてされた送達に関する第百条の書面又は電磁的記録その他これに類する書面又は電磁的記録に係る訴訟記録等の閲覧等の請求をすることができる者を当該当事者又は当該法定代理人に限ることができる。当事者又はその法定代理人を特定するため、その者の氏名その他当該者を特定するに足りる事項についての調査を嘱託した場合についても、同様とする。
The provisions of paragraphs (5) and (6) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis if a ruling under the provisions of the preceding paragraph is issued.
Article 133-4Setting Aside Anonymity Rulings
第百三十三条の四（秘匿決定の取消し等）
A person other than one subject to an anonymity ruling, a ruling under Article 133-2, paragraph (2), or a ruling under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (referred to as "anonymity ruling or similar measures" in the following paragraph and paragraph (7)) may file a petition with the court where the case records or filing records are kept seeking to set aside that ruling, on the grounds that any prescribed requirement has not been met or is no longer being met.
With permission from the court where the case records or filing records are kept, even if an anonymity ruling or similar measures are in place, a party other than the person covered by the ruling or measures may request access to a part of the case records or filing records that is restricted pursuant to the provisions of Article 133-2, paragraph (1) or (2) or Article 133-3, paragraph (1) if it is likely to substantially interfere with the party's own allegations or defense.
If a petition for permission under the provisions of the preceding paragraph is filed and a prima facie showing is made of the fact on which the petition is based, the court shamust permit the request.
裁判所は、前項の規定による許可の申立てがあった場合において、その原因となる事実につき疎明があったときは、これを許可しなければならない。
Before the court reaches a judicial decision to set aside an anonymity ruling or similar measures as referred to in paragraph (1) or to grant the permission referred to in paragraph (2), it must hear opinions of the persons specified in the following items, in accordance with the categories stated in those items:
a judicial decision on an anonymity ruling or a ruling under Article 133-2, paragraph (2):the person seeking anonymity covered by the ruling;
秘匿決定又は第百三十三条の二第二項の決定に係る裁判をするとき 当該決定に係る秘匿対象者
a judicial decision on a ruling under the preceding Article:the party or legal representative covered by the ruling.
前条の決定に係る裁判をするとき 当該決定に係る当事者又は法定代理人
An immediate appeal may be filed against a judicial decision concerning the petition to set aside an anonymity ruling or similar measures as referred to in paragraph (1) or a judicial decision concerning the petition for permission referred to in paragraph (2).
A judicial decision setting aside an anonymity ruling or similar measures as referred to in paragraph (1) or granting the permission referred to in paragraph (2) does not take effect until it becomes final and binding.
If a judicial decision granting the permission referred to in paragraph (2) is reached, the party petitioning for permission or their legal representative, litigation representative, or assistant in court must not, without a legitimate reason, use information obtained based on that permission for any other purpose than conducting the proceedings or disclose that information to a person other than the person covered by the anonymity ruling or similar measures.