# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百二十四条の二 (Article 724-2) - 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: 第七百二十四条の二 (Article 724-2)（人の生命又は身体を害する不法行為による損害賠償請求権の消滅時効） — address `art-724-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-724-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-724-2 - 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. --- ### 第七百二十四条の二（人の生命又は身体を害する不法行為による損害賠償請求権の消滅時効） — (Extinctive Prescription of Claim for Damages Arising from Death to Person or Injury to Person Caused by Tort) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-724-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-724-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-724-2 **第一項** 人の生命又は身体を害する不法行為による損害賠償請求権の消滅時効についての前条第一号の規定の適用については、同号中「三年間」とあるのは、「五年間」とする。 art-724-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-724-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-724-2/par-1 For the purpose of the application of the provisions of item (i) of the preceding Article with regard to the extinctive prescription of the claim for damages for death or injury to person caused by tort, the term "three years" in the same item is deemed to be replaced with "five years". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-724-2/par-1: 前条第一号 → 民法 第七百二十四条第一項第一号 (Article 724, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-724/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-724/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-724/par-1/item-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第三十五条第二項（不法行為等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-35/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-35/par-2 - 銀行法 第五十二条の五十九第五項（所属銀行等の賠償責任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-59/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-59/par-5 --- ## 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