# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百十二条の二 (Article 412-2) - 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: 第四百十二条の二 (Article 412-2)（履行不能） — address `art-412-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-412-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-412-2 - 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. --- ### 第四百十二条の二（履行不能） — (Impossibility of Performance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-412-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-412-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-412-2 **第一項** 債務の履行が契約その他の債務の発生原因及び取引上の社会通念に照らして不能であるときは、債権者は、その債務の履行を請求することができない。 art-412-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-412-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-412-2/par-1 If the performance of an obligation is impossible in light of the contract or other sources of claims and common sense trading practices in the transaction, the obligee may not request the performance of the obligation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 契約に基づく債務の履行がその契約の成立の時に不能であったことは、第四百十五条の規定によりその履行の不能によって生じた損害の賠償を請求することを妨げない。 art-412-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-412-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-412-2/par-2 The impossibility of the performance of an obligation based on a contract on the time of the formation of the contract does not preclude claiming compensation for damage that arises from the impossibility of the obligation pursuant to the provisions of Article 415. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-412-2/par-2: 第四百十五条 → 民法 第四百十五条 (Article 415), art-415 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-415 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-415 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第十七条第一項（債務不履行の責任等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-17/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