# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第百三十三条 (Article 133) - Law: 民事訴訟法 (Code of Civil Procedure), 平成八年法律第百九号 - English title "Code of Civil Procedure": 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: 第百三十三条 (Article 133)（申立人の住所、氏名等の秘匿） — address `art-133` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-133 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-133 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百三十三条（申立人の住所、氏名等の秘匿） — (Concealing a Petitioner's Domicile or Identifying Information) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-133 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-133 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-133 **第一項** 申立て等をする者又はその法定代理人の住所、居所その他その通常所在する場所（以下この項及び次項において「住所等」という。）の全部又は一部が当事者に知られることによって当該申立て等をする者又は当該法定代理人が社会生活を営むのに著しい支障を生ずるおそれがあることにつき疎明があった場合には、裁判所は、申立てにより、決定で、住所等の全部又は一部を秘匿する旨の裁判をすることができる。申立て等をする者又はその法定代理人の氏名その他当該者を特定するに足りる事項（次項において「氏名等」という。）についても、同様とする。 art-133/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-133/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-133/par-1 If a person filing a motion or statement or that person's legal representative makes a prima facie showing that disclosure of the whole or part of the information about the person's or legal representative's domicile, residence, or other place at which they are ordinarily present (referred to below as the person's or representative's "address" in this paragraph and the following paragraph) to a party would be likely to substantially interfere with their public life, the court may, upon application, reach a judicial decision in the form of a ruling to anonymize the whole or part of the person's or representative's address. The same applies with regard to the name of a person filing a motion or statement or that person's legal representative or any other information sufficient to identify that person or representative (referred to below as "identifying information" in the following paragraph). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の申立てをするときは、同項の申立て等をする者又はその法定代理人（以下この章において「秘匿対象者」という。）の住所等又は氏名等（次条第二項において「秘匿事項」という。）その他最高裁判所規則で定める事項を書面その他最高裁判所規則で定める方法により届け出なければならない。 art-133/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-133/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-133/par-2 When a person files the petition referred to in the preceding paragraph, they must file a notification with the court, in writing or by any other means specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court, indicating the address or identifying information of the person filing the motion or statement referred to in that paragraph or of that person's legal representative (referred to below as the "person seeking anonymity" in this Chapter; the address and identifying information of a person seeking anonymity are referred to as the "personal information of a person seeking anonymity" in paragraph (2) of the following Article) and indicating other information specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の申立てがあったときは、その申立てについての裁判が確定するまで、当該申立てに係る秘匿対象者以外の者は、訴訟記録等（訴訟記録又は第百三十二条の四第一項の処分の申立てに係る事件の記録をいう。以下この章において同じ。）中前項の規定による届出に係る部分（次条において「秘匿事項届出部分」という。）について訴訟記録等の閲覧等（訴訟記録の閲覧等、非電磁的証拠収集処分記録の閲覧等又は電磁的証拠収集処分記録の閲覧等をいう。以下この章において同じ。）の請求をすることができない。 art-133/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-133/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-133/par-3 Once a petition as referred to in paragraph (1) has been filed, no person other than the person seeking anonymity whom the petition concerns may request access to the part of a case record or filing records (meaning a case record or the records of a case in which there has been a petition for a disposition as referred to in Article 132-4, paragraph (1); the same applies in this Chapter) that contain information indicated in the notification under the provisions of the preceding paragraph (referred to as the "part of a record containing information indicated in an anonymity notification" in the following Article) (access to a case record or filing records means access to a case record, access to a hard-copy record of a disposition on the collection of evidence, or access to an electronic or magnetic record of a disposition on the collection of evidence; the same applies in this Chapter) until the judicial decision on that petition becomes final and binding. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第一項の申立てを却下した裁判に対しては、即時抗告をすることができる。 art-133/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-133/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-133/par-4 An immediate appeal may be filed against a judicial decision denying the petition referred to in paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 裁判所は、秘匿対象者の住所又は氏名について第一項の決定（以下この章において「秘匿決定」という。）をする場合には、当該秘匿決定において、当該秘匿対象者の住所又は氏名に代わる事項を定めなければならない。この場合において、その事項を当該事件並びにその事件についての反訴、参加、強制執行、仮差押え及び仮処分に関する手続において記載し、又は記録したときは、この法律その他の法令の規定の適用については、当該秘匿対象者の住所又は氏名を記載し、又は記録したものとみなす。 art-133/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-133/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-133/par-5 When the court issues a ruling as referred to in paragraph (1) with regard to the domicile or name of a person seeking anonymity (referred to below as an "anonymity ruling" in this Chapter), it must specify, in that ruling, information that will be used in place of the domicile or name of the person seeking anonymity. To apply the provisions of this Code or of other laws and regulations in such a case if information used in place of a domicile or name has been entered or recorded in proceedings in the case in question or in a counterclaim, intervention, judicial enforcement, provisional seizure, or provisional disposition related to that case, the domicile or name of the person seeking anonymity is deemed to have been entered or recorded. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-133/par-1: この項 → 民事訴訟法 第百三十三条第一項 (Article 133, paragraph (1)), art-133/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-133/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-133/par-1 - art-133/par-1: 次項 → 民事訴訟法 第百三十三条第二項 (Article 133, paragraph (2)), art-133/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-133/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-133/par-2 - art-133/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第百三十三条第一項 (Article 133, paragraph (1)), art-133/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-133/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-133/par-1 - art-133/par-2: 次条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第百三十三条の二第二項 (Article 133-2, paragraph (2)), art-133-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-133-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-133-2/par-2 - art-133/par-3: 第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第百三十三条第一項 (Article 133, paragraph (1)), art-133/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-133/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-133/par-1 - art-133/par-3: 第百三十二条の四第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第百三十二条の四第一項 (Article 132-4, paragraph (1)), art-132-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-132-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-132-4/par-1 - art-133/par-3: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第百三十三条第二項 (Article 133, paragraph (2)), art-133/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-133/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-133/par-2 - art-133/par-3: 次条 → 民事訴訟法 第百三十三条の二 (Article 133-2), art-133-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-133-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-133-2 - art-133/par-4: 第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第百三十三条第一項 (Article 133, paragraph (1)), art-133/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-133/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-133/par-1 - art-133/par-5: 第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第百三十三条第一項 (Article 133, paragraph (1)), art-133/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-133/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-133/par-1 ## Cited by 19 provisions cite this one. 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