# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第百三十五条 (Article 135) - 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: 第百三十五条 (Article 135)（債権者集会の招集） — address `art-135` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-135 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-135 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百三十五条（債権者集会の招集） — (Convocation of Creditors' Meetings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-135 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-135 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-135 **第一項** 裁判所は、次の各号に掲げる者のいずれかの申立てがあった場合には、債権者集会を招集しなければならない。ただし、知れている破産債権者の数その他の事情を考慮して債権者集会を招集することを相当でないと認めるときは、この限りでない。 art-135/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-135/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-135/par-1 The court must convoke a creditors' meeting upon the petition of any of the persons stated in the following items; provided, however, that this does not apply when the court finds it inappropriate to convoke a creditors' meeting taking into consideration the number of known bankruptcy creditors and other circumstances: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 破産管財人 art-135/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-135/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-135/par-1/item-1 a bankruptcy trustee; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第百四十四条第二項に規定する債権者委員会 art-135/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-135/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-135/par-1/item-2 the creditors' committee prescribed in Article 144, paragraph (2); or Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "the creditors' committee prescribed in Article 144 (2); or" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4895/tb **三** 知れている破産債権者の総債権について裁判所が評価した額の十分の一以上に当たる破産債権を有する破産債権者 art-135/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-135/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-135/par-1/item-3 a bankruptcy creditor that holds a bankruptcy claim that accounts for one-tenth or more of the amount of total claims held by known bankruptcy creditors as estimated by the court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 裁判所は、前項本文の申立てがない場合であっても、相当と認めるときは、債権者集会を招集することができる。 art-135/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-135/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-135/par-2 The court may convoke a creditors' meeting when the court finds it appropriate even when the petition stated in the main clause of the preceding paragraph is not filed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-135/par-1/item-2: 第百四十四条第二項 → 破産法 第百四十四条第二項 (Article 144, paragraph (2)), art-144/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-144/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-144/par-2 - art-135/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第百三十五条第一項 (Article 135, paragraph (1)), art-135/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-135/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-135/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第八十八条第三項（破産管財人の任務終了の場合の報告義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-88/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-88/par-3 - 破産法 第百三十五条第二項（債権者集会の招集） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-135/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-135/par-2 - 破産法 第百三十九条第一項（決議に付する旨の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-139/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-139/par-1 - 破産法 第二百十七条第二項（破産手続開始の決定後の破産手続廃止の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-217/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-217/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Bankruptcy Act (破産法), Article 135, paragraph (1), item (ii) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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