# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第百九条 (Article 109) - Law: 破産法 (Bankruptcy Act), 平成十六年法律第七十五号 - English title "Bankruptcy 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: 第百九条 (Article 109)（外国で弁済を受けた破産債権者の手続参加） — address `art-109` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-109 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-109 - 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. --- ### 第百九条（外国で弁済を受けた破産債権者の手続参加） — (Participation in Proceedings by Bankruptcy Creditors Receiving Payment in Foreign States) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-109 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-109 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-109 **第一項** 破産債権者は、破産手続開始の決定があった後に、破産財団に属する財産で外国にあるものに対して権利を行使したことにより、破産債権について弁済を受けた場合であっても、その弁済を受ける前の債権の額について破産手続に参加することができる。 art-109/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-109/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-109/par-1 A bankruptcy creditor may participate in the bankruptcy proceedings with regard to the amount of the claim before receiving the payment even if the bankruptcy creditor has received payment of their bankruptcy claim after an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings is issued by exercising their right against property that belongs to the bankruptcy estate and exists in a foreign state. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第百四十二条第二項（破産債権者の議決権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-142/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-142/par-2 - 破産法 第二百一条第四項（配当額の定め及び通知） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-201/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-201/par-4 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 破産法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/416AC0000000075/20260521_505AC0000000053), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Bankruptcy Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4895/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 204 — 破産法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19