# 仲裁法 / Arbitration Act — 第五十三条 (Article 53) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-53. 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: 第五十三条 (Article 53)（収賄、受託収賄及び事前収賄） — address `art-53` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-53 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-53 - 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. --- ### 第五十三条（収賄、受託収賄及び事前収賄） — (Acceptance of Bribes; Acceptance upon Request; Acceptance in Advance of Assumption of Office) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-53 · https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-53 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-53 **第一項** 仲裁人が、その職務に関し、賄賂を収受し、又はその要求若しくは約束をしたときは、五年以下の拘禁刑に処する。この場合において、請託を受けたときは、七年以下の拘禁刑に処する。 art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-53/par-1 An arbitrator who accepts, solicits, or promises to accept a bribe in connection with their duties is subject to imprisonment for not more than five years. In this case, when the arbitrator agrees to perform an act in response to a request, imprisonment for not more than seven years is imposed. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "An arbitrator who accepts, solicits, or promises to accept a bribe in connection with their duties is subject to imprisonment for not more than five years. In this case, when the official agrees to perform an act in response to a request, imprisonment for not more than seven years is imposed." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4440/tb **第二項** 仲裁人になろうとする者が、その担当すべき職務に関し、請託を受けて、賄賂を収受し、又はその要求若しくは約束をしたときは、仲裁人となった場合において、五年以下の拘禁刑に処する。 art-53/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-53/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-53/par-2 If a person seeking to be appointed as an arbitrator has accepted a request to perform an act, and accepts, solicits or promises to accept a bribe in connection with a duty that they are to assume, and if the person is appointed as an arbitrator, that person is subject to imprisonment for not more than five years. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 仲裁法 第五十五条第一項（加重収賄及び事後収賄） — https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-55/par-1 - 仲裁法 第五十七条第一項（贈賄） — https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-57/par-1 - 仲裁法 第五十八条第一項（国外犯） — https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-58/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-11-02 - 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 (仲裁法), Article 53, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4440/tb), 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