# 仲裁法 / Arbitration Act — 第三十二条 (Article 32) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-32. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 仲裁法 (Arbitration Act), 平成十五年法律第百三十八号 - English title "Arbitration Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第三十二条 (Article 32)（審理の方法） — address `art-32` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-32 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-32 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十二条（審理の方法） — (Proceedings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-32 **第一項** 仲裁廷は、当事者に証拠の提出又は意見の陳述をさせるため、口頭審理を実施することができる。ただし、一方の当事者が第三十四条第三項の求めその他の口頭審理の実施の申立てをしたときは、仲裁手続における適切な時期に、当該口頭審理を実施しなければならない。 art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-32/par-1 An arbitral tribunal may hold oral hearings to have the parties produce evidence or state their opinions; provided, however, that if one party makes the request referred to in Article 34, paragraph (3) or otherwise petitions to hold oral hearings, the arbitral tribunal must hold the oral hearings at an appropriate stage of the arbitration procedure. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、当事者間に別段の合意がある場合には、適用しない。 art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-32/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply if otherwise agreed by the parties. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 仲裁廷は、意見の聴取又は物若しくは文書の見分を行うために口頭審理を行うときは、当該口頭審理の期日までに相当な期間をおいて、当事者に対し、当該口頭審理の日時及び場所を通知しなければならない。 art-32/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-32/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-32/par-3 If the arbitral tribunal holds an oral hearing to hear opinions or inspect goods or documents, it must notify the parties of the date, time and place of the oral hearing, leaving a reasonable period of time before the date of the oral hearing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 当事者は、主張書面、証拠書類その他の記録を仲裁廷に提供したときは、他の当事者がその内容を知ることができるようにする措置を執らなければならない。 art-32/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-32/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-32/par-4 If a party has submitted a written allegation, documentary evidence or any other records to the arbitral tribunal, the party must take measures to enable the other party to know their contents. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 仲裁廷は、仲裁判断その他の仲裁廷の決定の基礎となるべき鑑定人の報告その他の証拠資料の内容を、すべての当事者が知ることができるようにする措置を執らなければならない。 art-32/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-32/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-32/par-5 An arbitral tribunal must take measures to enable all the parties to know the content of the report of the expert and other evidentiary material which should serve as the basis for the arbitral award or other decisions by the arbitral tribunal. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-32/par-1: 第三十四条第三項 → 仲裁法 第三十四条第三項 (Article 34, paragraph (3)), art-34/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-34/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-34/par-3 - art-32/par-2: 前項 → 仲裁法 第三十二条第一項 (Article 32, paragraph (1)), art-32/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-32/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 仲裁法 第三十二条第二項（審理の方法） — https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-32/par-2 - 仲裁法 附則第三条第三項（消費者と事業者との間に成立した仲裁合意に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/suppl-4151-138/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/suppl-4151-138/art-3/par-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 仲裁法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000138/20260521_504AC0000000048), retrieved 2026-11-01 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Arbitration Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4440/tb), retrieved 2026-11-01 - This site's parser, version 219 — 仲裁法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-01