# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第百三十六条の二 (Article 136-2) - 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: 第百三十六条の二 (Article 136-2)（映像等の送受信による通話の方法による債権者集会） — address `art-136-2` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-136-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-136-2 - 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. --- ### 第百三十六条の二（映像等の送受信による通話の方法による債権者集会） — (Creditors' Meeting Based on Communication Using Audiovisual Transmissions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-136-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-136-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-136-2 **第一項** 裁判所は、相当と認めるときは、最高裁判所規則で定めるところにより、裁判所並びに破産者、破産管財人、届出をした破産債権者及び外国管財人（第二百四十五条第一項に規定する外国管財人をいう。次項において同じ。）が映像と音声の送受信により相手の状態を相互に認識しながら通話をすることができる方法によって、債権者集会の期日における手続を行うことができる。 art-136-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-136-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-136-2/par-1 If the court finds it to be appropriate, pursuant to the provisions of the Rules of the Supreme Court, the court may conduct proceedings on a date of a creditors' meeting using a means that enables the court, the bankrupt, a bankruptcy trustee, holders of filed bankruptcy claims, and foreign trustees (meaning foreign trustees prescribed in Article 245, paragraph (1); the same applies in the following paragraph) to communicate one another through audio and visual transmissions while gaining an awareness of one another' situation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の期日に出席しないでその手続に関与した破産者、破産管財人、届出をした破産債権者及び外国管財人は、その期日に出席したものとみなす。 art-136-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-136-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-136-2/par-2 The bankrupt, a bankruptcy trustee, holders of a filed bankruptcy claim, and foreign trustees who have participated in the proceedings without appearing on a date referred to in the preceding paragraph are deemed to have appeared on that date. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-136-2/par-1: 第二百四十五条第一項 → 破産法 第二百四十五条第一項 (Article 245, paragraph (1)), art-245/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-245/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-245/par-1 - art-136-2/par-1: 次項 → 破産法 第百三十六条の二第二項 (Article 136-2, paragraph (2)), art-136-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-136-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-136-2/par-2 - art-136-2/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第百三十六条の二第一項 (Article 136-2, paragraph (1)), art-136-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-136-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-136-2/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第百三十六条の二第一項（映像等の送受信による通話の方法による債権者集会） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-136-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-136-2/par-1 - 破産法 第百三十六条の二第二項（映像等の送受信による通話の方法による債権者集会） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-136-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-136-2/par-2 --- ## 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