# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第百四十八条 (Article 148) - 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: 第百四十八条 (Article 148)（裁判長の訴訟指揮権） — address `art-148` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-148 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-148 - 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. --- ### 第百四十八条（裁判長の訴訟指揮権） — (Presiding Judge's Authority to Control Litigation Proceedings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-148 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-148 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-148 **第一項** 口頭弁論は、裁判長が指揮する。 art-148/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-148/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-148/par-1 The presiding judge directs oral arguments. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 裁判長は、発言を許し、又はその命令に従わない者の発言を禁ずることができる。 art-148/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-148/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-148/par-2 The presiding judge may permit a person to speak or prohibit a person who does not comply with the judge's orders from speaking. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第八十九条第四項（和解の試み等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-89/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-89/par-4 - 民事訴訟法 第八十九条第五項（和解の試み等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-89/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-89/par-5 - 民事訴訟法 第百七十条第五項（弁論準備手続における訴訟行為等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-170/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-170/par-5 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/408AC0000000109/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Civil Procedure — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4797/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - This site's parser, version 209 — 民事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17