# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百五十七条 (Article 857) - 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: 第八百五十七条 (Article 857)（未成年被後見人の身上の監護に関する権利義務） — address `art-857` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-857 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-857 - 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. --- ### 第八百五十七条（未成年被後見人の身上の監護に関する権利義務） — (Rights and Duties in Respect of Physical Custody of a Minor Ward) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-857 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-857 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-857 **第一項** 未成年後見人は、第八百二十条から第八百二十三条までに規定する事項について、親権を行う者と同一の権利義務を有する。ただし、親権を行う者が定めた教育の方法及び居所を変更し、営業を許可し、その許可を取り消し、又はこれを制限するには、未成年後見監督人があるときは、その同意を得なければならない。 art-857/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-857/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-857/par-1 The guardian of a minor has the same rights and duties as a person exercising parental authority with respect to the matters prescribed in Article 820 through Article 823;provided, however, that in order to change the plan of education or residence fixed by a person exercising parental authority, in order to give the minor permission to do business, or in order to revoke or limit that permission, the guardian must obtain the consent of the supervisor, if there is one. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-857/par-1: 第八百二十条から第八百二十三条まで → 民法 第八百二十条 (Article 820), art-820 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-820 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-820 - art-857/par-1: 第八百二十条から第八百二十三条まで → 民法 第八百二十一条 (Article 821), art-821 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-821 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-821 - art-857/par-1: 第八百二十条から第八百二十三条まで → 民法 第八百二十二条 (Article 822), art-822 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-822 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-822 - art-857/par-1: 第八百二十条から第八百二十三条まで → 民法 第八百二十三条 (Article 823), art-823 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-823 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-823 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百六十七条第二項（未成年被後見人に代わる親権の行使） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-867/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-867/par-2 --- ## 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 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4275/tb), 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