# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第九十五条 (Article 95) - 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: 第九十五条 (Article 95)（期間の計算） — address `art-95` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-95 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-95 - 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. --- ### 第九十五条（期間の計算） — (Computation of Time Frames) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-95 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-95 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-95 **第一項** 期間の計算については、民法の期間に関する規定に従う。 art-95/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-95/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-95/par-1 The computation of a time frame is governed by the provisions of the Civil Code on periods of time. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The computation of a time frames is governed by Civil Code provisions on periods of time." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4797/tb **第二項** 期間を定める裁判において始期を定めなかったときは、期間は、その裁判が効力を生じた時から進行を始める。 art-95/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-95/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-95/par-2 If a judicial decision specifying a time frame does not specify when the time frame begins, the time frame begins from the time that the judicial decision becomes effective. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 期間の末日が日曜日、土曜日、国民の祝日に関する法律（昭和二十三年法律第百七十八号）に規定する休日、一月二日、一月三日又は十二月二十九日から十二月三十一日までの日に当たるときは、期間は、その翌日に満了する。 art-95/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-95/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-95/par-3 If the last day of a time frame falls on a Sunday, Saturday, a holiday prescribed in the Act on National Holidays (Act No. 178 of 1948), January 2nd, January 3rd, or any day from December 29th to December 31st, that time frame expires on the following day. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-18 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Civil Procedure (民事訴訟法), Article 95, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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