# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第五百八十七条 (Article 587) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-587. 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: 第五百八十七条 (Article 587)（運送人の不法行為責任） — address `art-587` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-587 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-587 - 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. --- ### 第五百八十七条（運送人の不法行為責任） — (Tort Liability of Carriers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-587 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-587 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-587 **第一項** 第五百七十六条、第五百七十七条、第五百八十四条及び第五百八十五条の規定は、運送品の滅失等についての運送人の荷送人又は荷受人に対する不法行為による損害賠償の責任について準用する。ただし、荷受人があらかじめ荷送人の委託による運送を拒んでいたにもかかわらず荷送人から運送を引き受けた運送人の荷受人に対する責任については、この限りでない。 art-587/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-587/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-587/par-1 The provisions of Articles 576, 577, 584, and 585 apply mutatis mutandis to the liability of a carrier toward a shipper or consignee to compensate for damage in tort arising as a result of loss, damage, or delay; provided, however, that this does not apply to a carrier's liability to a consignee if the carrier undertakes transportation from the shipper even though the consignee had previously refused to have the goods transported through entrustment by the shipper. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-587/par-1: 第五百七十六条 → 商法 第五百七十六条 (Article 576), art-576 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-576 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-576 - art-587/par-1: 第五百七十七条 → 商法 第五百七十七条 (Article 577), art-577 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-577 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-577 - art-587/par-1: 第五百八十四条 → 商法 第五百八十四条 (Article 584), art-584 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-584 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-584 - art-587/par-1: 第五百八十五条 → 商法 第五百八十五条 (Article 585), art-585 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-585 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-585 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第五百六十四条第一項（物品運送に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-564/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-564/par-1 - 商法 第五百八十八条第一項（運送人の被用者の不法行為責任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-588/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-588/par-1 - 商法 第五百九十三条第二項（引渡しを受けていない手荷物に関する運送人の責任等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-593/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-593/par-2 - 商法 第七百六十八条第一項（船荷証券が作成された場合の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-768/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-768/par-1 --- ## 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