The Prime Minister or a trial examiner may make service by publication in the following cases:
内閣総理大臣又は審判官は、次に掲げる場合には、公示送達をすることができる。
the domicile or residence of the person to be served, or the place where to serve is unknown;
送達を受けるべき者の住所、居所その他送達をすべき場所が知れない場合
it is not possible to make the service pursuant the provisions of Article 107, paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding Article;
前条において準用する民事訴訟法第百七条第一項の規定により送達をすることができない場合
with regard to service that must be made in a foreign country, it is not possible to make the service through the means prescribed in Article 108 of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding Article, or in a case that is found not possible to make the service even through those means; or
even after six months have elapsed since the competent government agency of a foreign country is issued a request to make the service pursuant to the provisions of Article 108 of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding Article, a document certifying that the agency has made the service have not been sent.
Service by publication is made by a posting made on the notice board of the Financial Services Agency indicating that the documents that are required to be served will be delivered to the person that is to be served with them at any time.
公示送達は、送達すべき書類を送達を受けるべき者にいつでも交付すべき旨を金融庁の掲示場に掲示することにより行う。
Service by publication becomes effective after two weeks have elapsed from the day on which the posting under the provisions of the preceding paragraph was made.
公示送達は、前項の規定による掲示を始めた日から二週間を経過することによつて、その効力を生ずる。
For service by publication in respect of service that must be made in a foreign country, the period referred to in the preceding paragraph is six weeks.
外国においてすべき送達についてした公示送達にあつては、前項の期間は、六週間とする。
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(Application, Mutatis Mutandis of Code of Civil Procedure)
The provisions of Article 99, Article 100, paragraph (1), Article 101, and Articles 102-2 through 108 of the Code of Civil Procedure apply mutatis mutandis to the service of documents.
書類の送達については、民事訴訟法第九十九条、第百条第一項、第百一条及び第百二条の二から第百八条までの規定を準用する。この場合において、同項中「裁判所」とあるのは「内閣総理大臣又は審判官」と、同法第百一条第一項中「執行官」とあるのは「金融庁の職員」と…
Open this provision(Service by Publication)
Service by publication is made by a posting made on the notice board of the Financial Services Agency indicating that the documents that are required to be served will be delivered to the person that…
公示送達は、送達すべき書類を送達を受けるべき者にいつでも交付すべき旨を金融庁の掲示場に掲示することにより行う。
Open this provision(Service by Publication)
Service by publication becomes effective after two weeks have elapsed from the day on which the posting under the provisions of the preceding paragraph was made.
公示送達は、前項の規定による掲示を始めた日から二週間を経過することによつて、その効力を生ずる。
Open this provision(Effecting Service by Registered Mail)
In the cases listed in the following items, if it is impossible for service to be effected pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article…
前条の規定により送達をすることができない場合（第百九条の二の規定により送達をすることができる場合を除く。）には、裁判所書記官は、次の各号に掲げる区分に応じ、それぞれ当該各号に定める場所に宛てて…
Open this provision(Service in a Foreign Country)
Service of documents that is to be effected in a foreign country is effected based on the presiding judge's request for the competent government agency of that country or the Japanese ambassador…
外国においてすべき書類の送達は、裁判長がその国の管轄官庁又はその国に駐在する日本の大使、公使若しくは領事に嘱託してする。
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内閣総理大臣
The head of the Cabinet. Designated by the Diet from among its own members, and appointed by the Emperor on that designation (Articles 67 and 6). The Prime Minister appoints and may dismiss the other Ministers of State at will, and a majority of them must be members of the Diet (Article 68). No Minister of State can be subjected to legal action while in office without the Prime Minister's consent (Article 75).
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 6, 67, 68, 75 and Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan as a reference.