# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第五百七十八条 (Article 578) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-578. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 商法 (Commercial Code), 明治三十二年法律第四十八号 - English title "Commercial Code": 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: 第五百七十八条 (Article 578)（複合運送人の責任） — address `art-578` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-578 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-578 - 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. --- ### 第五百七十八条（複合運送人の責任） — (Liability of Multimodal Transport Operators) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-578 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-578 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-578 **第一項** 陸上運送、海上運送又は航空運送のうち二以上の運送を一の契約で引き受けた場合における運送品の滅失等（運送品の滅失、損傷又は延着をいう。以下この節において同じ。）についての運送人の損害賠償の責任は、それぞれの運送においてその運送品の滅失等の原因が生じた場合に当該運送ごとに適用されることとなる我が国の法令又は我が国が締結した条約の規定に従う。 art-578/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-578/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-578/par-1 The liability of a carrier to compensate for loss or damage arising as a result of loss, damage, or delay (meaning loss of, damage to, or delay in the arrival of the goods; hereinafter the same applies in this Section) if it has undertaken two or more modes of transportation from among land transportation, marine transportation, and air transportation under a single contract is to be governed by the provisions of Japanese laws and regulations or treaties which Japan has signed that are to be applied to each mode of transportation if the thing that causes the loss, damage, or delay occurs during that mode of transportation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、陸上運送であってその区間ごとに異なる二以上の法令が適用されるものを一の契約で引き受けた場合について準用する。 art-578/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-578/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-578/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis if a carrier, under a single contract, undertakes land transportation to which two or more different laws and regulations apply for each segment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-578/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第五百七十八条第一項 (Article 578, paragraph (1)), art-578/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-578/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-578/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第五百七十八条第二項（複合運送人の責任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-578/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-578/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 商法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/132AC0000000048/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Commercial Code — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05