# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第十五条 (Article 15) - 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: 第十五条 (Article 15)（破産手続開始の原因） — address `art-15` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-15 - 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. --- ### 第十五条（破産手続開始の原因） — (Cause for Commencement of Bankruptcy Proceedings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-15 **第一項** 債務者が支払不能にあるときは、裁判所は、第三十条第一項の規定に基づき、申立てにより、決定で、破産手続を開始する。 art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-15/par-1 When a debtor is unable to pay debts, the court commences bankruptcy proceedings upon petition by an order pursuant to the provisions of Article 30, paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 債務者が支払を停止したときは、支払不能にあるものと推定する。 art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-15/par-2 When a debtor has suspended payments, the debtor is presumed to be unable to pay debts. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-15/par-1: 第三十条第一項 → 破産法 第三十条第一項 (Article 30, paragraph (1)), art-30/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-30/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第十六条第一項（法人の破産手続開始の原因） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-16/par-1 - 破産法 第二百四十四条の三第一項（信託財産の破産手続開始の原因） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-244-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-244-3/par-1 --- ## 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