# 民法 / Civil Code — 第六百九条 (Article 609) - 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: 第六百九条 (Article 609)（減収による賃料の減額請求） — address `art-609` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-609 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-609 - 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. --- ### 第六百九条（減収による賃料の減額請求） — (Demand for Reduction of Rent Due to Decrease in Profits) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-609 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-609 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-609 **第一項** 耕作又は牧畜を目的とする土地の賃借人は、不可抗力によって賃料より少ない収益を得たときは、その収益の額に至るまで、賃料の減額を請求することができる。 art-609/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-609/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-609/par-1 If a lessee of land that is meant for cultivation or livestock farming obtains profits less than the rent due to force majeure, the lessee may demand that the amount of the rent be reduced to the level of the amount of the profits. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第六百十条第一項（減収による解除） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-610/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-610/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