If a seller that has advertised terms and conditions for selling goods or specified rights through mail order sales has received an offer to enter into a sales contract for those goods or specified rights or entered into a sales contract for those goods or specified rights, the person making the offer or the purchaser (simply referred to as the "purchaser" in the following paragraph) may withdraw the offer to enter into the sales contract or cancel the sales contract (hereinafter referred to as a "withdrawal of an offer or cancellation" of a contract in this Article) during the period up until eight days have passed since the date on which the purchaser is delivered the goods or is transferred the specified rights; provided, however, that this does not apply if the seller had indicated special provisions on withdrawal of an offer or cancellation of a contract in its advertisement (if the sales contract is an electronic consumer contract prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Special Provisions of the Civil Code for Electronic Consumer Contracts (Act No. 95 of 2001) or in any other cases specified by order of the competent ministry, the case where the seller had indicated special provisions in its advertisement and had also indicated those special provisions by a method other than an advertisement that is specified by order of the competent ministry).
通信販売をする場合の商品又は特定権利の販売条件について広告をした販売業者が当該商品若しくは当該特定権利の売買契約の申込みを受けた場合におけるその申込みをした者又は売買契約を締結した場合におけるその購入者（次項において単に「購入者」という。）は、その売買契約に係る商品の引渡し又は特定権利の移転を受けた日から起算して八日を経過するまでの間は、その売買契約の申込みの撤回又はその売買契約の解除（以下この条において「申込みの撤回等」という。）を行うことができる。ただし、当該販売業者が申込みの撤回等についての特約を当該広告に表示していた場合（当該売買契約が電子消費者契約に関する民法の特例に関する法律（平成十三年法律第九十五号）第二条第一項に規定する電子消費者契約に該当する場合その他主務省令で定める場合にあつては、当該広告に表示し、かつ、広告に表示する方法以外の方法であつて主務省令で定める方法により表示していた場合）には、この限りでない。
If a person withdraws an offer or cancels a contract, the purchaser bears the costs required for taking back or returning any goods already delivered or any specified rights already transferred under the sales contract.