# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第三百十一条 (Article 311) - 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: 第三百十一条 (Article 311)（上告裁判所） — address `art-311` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-311 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-311 - 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. --- ### 第三百十一条（上告裁判所） — (Final Appellate Court) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-311 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-311 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-311 **第一項** 上告は、高等裁判所が第二審又は第一審としてした終局判決に対しては最高裁判所に、地方裁判所が第二審としてした終局判決に対しては高等裁判所にすることができる。 art-311/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-311/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-311/par-1 A final appeal may be filed with the Supreme Court against a final judgment that the high court enters as the court of second instance or as the court of first instance, or may be filed with the high court against a final judgment that the district court enters as the court of second instance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第二百八十一条第一項ただし書の場合には、地方裁判所の判決に対しては最高裁判所に、簡易裁判所の判決に対しては高等裁判所に、直ちに上告をすることができる。 art-311/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-311/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-311/par-2 In a case as referred to in the proviso to Article 281, paragraph (1), a final appeal may be filed directly with the Supreme Court against a district court judgment, and may be filed directly with a high court against a summary court judgment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-311/par-2: 第二百八十一条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百八十一条第一項 (Article 281, paragraph (1)), art-281/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-281/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-281/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第三百二十一条第二項（原判決の確定した事実の拘束） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-321/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-321/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第三百二十七条第二項（特別上告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-327/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-327/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