Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act
Article 118, paragraph (1)
第百十八条第一項
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In the following adjudication cases (including adjudication cases for a provisional order sought by designating the adjudication cases set forth in items (i), (iv), and (vi) as cases on the merits), a person who is or is to be an adult under guardianship may participate in proceedings themselves, not through their legal representative, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 31 of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 17, paragraph (1). The same applies when the person is a person under curatorship or a person under assistance (limited to a person under assistance who is required to obtain consent from the assistant for performing procedural acts) and the person has not obtained consent from the curator or supervisor of the curator or the assistant or supervisor of the assistant:
次に掲げる審判事件（第一号、第四号及び第六号の審判事件を本案とする保全処分についての審判事件を含む。）においては、成年被後見人となるべき者及び成年被後見人は、第十七条第一項において準用する民事訴訟法第三十一条の規定にかかわらず、法定代理人によらずに、自ら手続行為をすることができる。その者が被保佐人又は被補助人（手続行為をすることにつきその補助人の同意を得ることを要するものに限る。）であって、保佐人若しくは保佐監督人又は補助人若しくは補助監督人の同意がない場合も、同様とする。
In the following adjudication cases (including adjudication cases for a provisional order sought by designating the adjudication cases set forth in items (i),
(iv), and (vi)(xiii), (xv), and (xvii) as cases on the merits), a person who isor is to be an adult under guardianshipto be a person under assistance (limited to a minor) and a person under assistance (limited to a minor or a person subject to a ruling of a disposition appointing a specified assistant) may participate in proceedings themselves, not through their legal representative, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 31 of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 17, paragraph (1). The same applies when the person is a person undercuratorship or a person underassistance (limited to a person under assistance who is required to obtain consent from the assistant for performing procedural acts) and the person has not obtained consent fromthe curator or supervisor of the curator orthe assistant or supervisor of the assistant:次に掲げる審判事件（第一号、
第四号及び第六号第十三号、第十五号及び第十七号の審判事件を本案とする保全処分についての審判事件を含む。）においては、成年被後見人となるべき者及び成年被後見人補助開始の審判を受ける者となるべき者（未成年者に限る。）及び補助開始の審判を受けた者（未成年者及び特定補助人を付する処分の審判を受けた者に限る。）は、第十七条第一項において準用する民事訴訟法第三十一条の規定にかかわらず、法定代理人によらずに、自ら手続行為をすることができる。その者が被保佐人又は被補助人補助開始の審判を受けた者（手続行為をすることにつきその補助人の同意を得ることを要するものに限る。）であって、保佐人若しくは保佐監督人又は補助人若しく補助人又は補助監督人の同意がない場合も、同様とする。