# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第二百七十四条 (Article 274) - 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: 第二百七十四条 (Article 274)（贈賄罪） — address `art-274` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-274 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-274 - 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. --- ### 第二百七十四条（贈賄罪） — (Crime of Offering Bribes) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-274 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-274 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-274 **第一項** 前条第一項又は第三項に規定する賄賂を供与し、又はその申込み若しくは約束をした者は、三年以下の拘禁刑若しくは三百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。 art-274/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-274/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-274/par-1 A person that has given, offered, or promised to offer a bribe prescribed in paragraph (1) or (3) of the preceding Article is to be punished by imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine of not more than three million yen, or both. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前条第二項、第四項又は第五項に規定する賄賂を供与し、又はその申込み若しくは約束をした者は、五年以下の拘禁刑若しくは五百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。 art-274/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-274/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-274/par-2 A person that has given, offered, or promised to offer a bribe prescribed in paragraph (2), (4), or (5) of the preceding Article is punishable by imprisonment for not more than five years or a fine of not more than five million yen, or both. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-274/par-1: 前条第一項 → 破産法 第二百七十三条第一項 (Article 273, paragraph (1)), art-273/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-273/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-273/par-1 - art-274/par-1: 第三項 → 破産法 第二百七十三条第三項 (Article 273, paragraph (3)), art-273/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-273/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-273/par-3 - art-274/par-2: 前条第二項 → 破産法 第二百七十三条第二項 (Article 273, paragraph (2)), art-273/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-273/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-273/par-2 - art-274/par-2: 第四項 → 破産法 第二百七十三条第四項 (Article 273, paragraph (4)), art-273/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-273/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-273/par-4 - art-274/par-2: 第五項 → 破産法 第二百七十三条第五項 (Article 273, paragraph (5)), art-273/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-273/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-273/par-5 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第三百三十一条第一項第三号（取締役の資格等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-331/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-331/par-1/item-3 - 破産法 第二百七十六条第一項（国外犯） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-276/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-276/par-1 - 破産法 第二百七十七条第一項（両罰規定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-277/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-277/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