# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第三百五十四条 (Article 354) - 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: 第三百五十四条 (Article 354)（口頭弁論の終結） — address `art-354` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-354 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-354 - 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. --- ### 第三百五十四条（口頭弁論の終結） — (Conclusion of Oral Arguments) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-354 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-354 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-354 **第一項** 裁判所は、被告が口頭弁論において原告が主張した事実を争わず、その他何らの防御の方法をも提出しない場合には、前条第三項の規定による通知をする前であっても、口頭弁論を終結することができる。 art-354/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-354/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-354/par-1 If the defendant does not deny the facts alleged by the plaintiff in oral arguments or does not submit any manner of defense, the court may conclude oral arguments even before sending the notice under the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-354/par-1: 前条第三項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百五十三条第三項 (Article 353, paragraph (3)), art-353/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-353/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-353/par-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第三百六十七条第二項（小切手訴訟） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-367/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-367/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