# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第八十二条 (Article 82) - 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: 第八十二条 (Article 82) — address `art-82` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-82 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-82 - 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. --- ### 第八十二条 art-82 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-82 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-82 **第一項** 破産管財人は、破産者にあてた郵便物等を受け取ったときは、これを開いて見ることができる。 art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-82/par-1 Upon receiving a postal item, etc. addressed to the bankrupt, a bankruptcy trustee may open the item and view its content. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 破産者は、破産管財人に対し、破産管財人が受け取った前項の郵便物等の閲覧又は当該郵便物等で破産財団に関しないものの交付を求めることができる。 art-82/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-82/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-82/par-2 The bankrupt may request a bankruptcy trustee to let the bankrupt inspect the postal item, etc. stated in the preceding paragraph received by the bankruptcy trustee, or deliver it to the bankrupt, if the postal item, etc. does not relate to the bankruptcy estate. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-82/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第八十二条第一項 (Article 82, paragraph (1)), art-82/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-82/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第八十一条第一項（郵便物等の管理） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-81/par-1 - 破産法 第八十二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-82/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-82/par-2 - 破産法 第九十六条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-96/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