# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百八十九条 (Article 889) - 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: 第八百八十九条 (Article 889)（直系尊属及び兄弟姉妹の相続権） — address `art-889` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-889 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-889 - 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. --- ### 第八百八十九条（直系尊属及び兄弟姉妹の相続権） — (Right of Inheritance of Lineal Ascendants and Siblings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-889 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-889 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-889 **第一項** 次に掲げる者は、第八百八十七条の規定により相続人となるべき者がない場合には、次に掲げる順序の順位に従って相続人となる。 art-889/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-889/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-889/par-1 If no one becomes an heir pursuant to the provisions of Article 887, the following persons become heirs in accordance with their places in the line of succession, in the following order: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 被相続人の直系尊属。ただし、親等の異なる者の間では、その近い者を先にする。 art-889/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-889/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-889/par-1/item-1 lineal ascendants of the decedent; provided, however, that between persons of differing degrees of kinship, persons of a closer degree of kinship to the decedent have priority in inheritance; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 被相続人の兄弟姉妹 art-889/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-889/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-889/par-1/item-2 siblings of the decedent. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第八百八十七条第二項の規定は、前項第二号の場合について準用する。 art-889/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-889/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-889/par-2 The provisions of Article 887, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis in a case as referred to in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-889/par-1: 第八百八十七条 → 民法 第八百八十七条 (Article 887), art-887 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-887 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-887 - art-889/par-2: 第八百八十七条第二項 → 民法 第八百八十七条第二項 (Article 887, paragraph (2)), art-887/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-887/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-887/par-2 - art-889/par-2: 前項第二号 → 民法 第八百八十九条第一項第二号 (Article 889, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-889/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-889/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-889/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百八十九条第二項（直系尊属及び兄弟姉妹の相続権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-889/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-889/par-2 - 民法 第八百九十条第一項（配偶者の相続権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-890/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-890/par-1 - 民法 第九百一条第二項（代襲相続人の相続分） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-901/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-901/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