# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百三十五条 (Article 235) - Law: 民法 (Civil Code), 明治二十九年法律第八十九号 - English title "Civil Code": 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: 第二百三十五条 (Article 235) — address `art-235` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-235 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-235 - 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. --- ### 第二百三十五条 art-235 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-235 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-235 **第一項** 境界線から一メートル未満の距離において他人の宅地を見通すことのできる窓又は縁側（ベランダを含む。次項において同じ。）を設ける者は、目隠しを付けなければならない。 art-235/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-235/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-235/par-1 A person that installs a window or porch (including a veranda, the same applies in the following paragraph) at a distance of less than one meter from a boundary line allowing the observation of the residential land of another person must put up a privacy screen. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の距離は、窓又は縁側の最も隣地に近い点から垂直線によって境界線に至るまでを測定して算出する。 art-235/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-235/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-235/par-2 The distance referred to in the preceding paragraph is calculated by measuring the length of a straight line from the point on the window or porch closest to the neighboring land, to where it reaches the boundary line at a right angle. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-235/par-1: 次項 → 民法 第二百三十五条第二項 (Article 235, paragraph (2)), art-235/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-235/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-235/par-2 - art-235/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第二百三十五条第一項 (Article 235, paragraph (1)), art-235/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-235/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-235/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第二百三十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-235/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-235/par-1 - 民法 第二百三十五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-235/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-235/par-2 - 民法 第二百三十六条第一項（境界線付近の建築に関する慣習） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-236/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-236/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/129AC0000000089/20260624_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11