# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二百条 (Article 200) - 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: 第二百条 (Article 200)（証言拒絶に対する制裁） — address `art-200` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-200 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-200 - 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. --- ### 第二百条（証言拒絶に対する制裁） — (Sanctions for Refusal to Testify) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-200 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-200 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-200 **第一項** 第百九十二条及び第百九十三条の規定は、証言拒絶を理由がないとする裁判が確定した後に証人が正当な理由なく証言を拒む場合について準用する。 art-200/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-200/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-200/par-1 The provisions of Articles 192 and 193 apply mutatis mutandis if, after a judicial decision finding no grounds for a witness' refusal to testify becomes final and binding, the witness still refuses to testify, without a legitimate reason for refusing to do so. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-200/par-1: 第百九十二条 → 民事訴訟法 第百九十二条 (Article 192), art-192 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-192 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-192 - art-200/par-1: 第百九十三条 → 民事訴訟法 第百九十三条 (Article 193), art-193 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-193 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-193 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働審判法 第十七条第二項（証拠調べ等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-tribunal-act/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000045/art-17/par-2 --- ## 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