# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第百六十四条 (Article 164) - 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: 第百六十四条 (Article 164)（準備的口頭弁論の開始） — address `art-164` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-164 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-164 - 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. --- ### 第百六十四条（準備的口頭弁論の開始） — (Commencement of Preliminary Oral Arguments) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-164 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-164 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-164 **第一項** 裁判所は、争点及び証拠の整理を行うため必要があると認めるときは、この款に定めるところにより、準備的口頭弁論を行うことができる。 art-164/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-164/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-164/par-1 If the court finds it necessary in order to arrange issues and evidence, the court may hold preliminary oral arguments as provided for in this Subsection. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百五十条第一項（権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-150/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-150/par-1 --- ## 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