# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第五十九条 (Article 59) - 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: 第五十九条 (Article 59)（交互計算） — address `art-59` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-59 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-59 - 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. --- ### 第五十九条（交互計算） — (Open Accounts) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-59 **第一項** 交互計算は、当事者の一方について破産手続が開始されたときは、終了する。この場合においては、各当事者は、計算を閉鎖して、残額の支払を請求することができる。 art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-59/par-1 Open accounts terminate when a bankruptcy proceeding is commenced against either party to the account. In this case, each party may close the account and claim payment of the balance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による請求権は、破産者が有するときは破産財団に属し、相手方が有するときは破産債権とする。 art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-59/par-2 The claim under the provisions of the preceding paragraph belongs to the bankruptcy estate if it is held by the bankrupt, or is a bankruptcy claim if it is held by the other party. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-59/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第五十九条第一項 (Article 59, paragraph (1)), art-59/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-59/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第五十九条第二項（交互計算） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-59/par-2 - 破産法 第九十七条第一項第十号（破産債権に含まれる請求権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-97/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-97/par-1/item-10 --- ## 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