# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第五百九十六条 (Article 596) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-596. 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: 第五百九十六条 (Article 596)（場屋営業者の責任） — address `art-596` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-596 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-596 - 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. --- ### 第五百九十六条（場屋営業者の責任） — (Liability of Establishment's Proprietor) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-596 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-596 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-596 **第一項** 旅館、飲食店、浴場その他の客の来集を目的とする場屋における取引をすることを業とする者（以下この節において「場屋営業者」という。）は、客から寄託を受けた物品の滅失又は損傷については、不可抗力によるものであったことを証明しなければ、損害賠償の責任を免れることができない。 art-596/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-596/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-596/par-1 If a person in the business of conducting transactions at a hotel, food and beverage establishment, bathhouse, or other such establishment at which it is intended for customers to gather (hereinafter referred to as an "establishment's proprietor" in this Section) receives goods under bailment from a customer, the establishment's proprietor is not entitled to be released from the liability to compensate the customer for loss or damage arising as a result of loss or damage to the bailed goods unless it proves that the loss or damage is due to force majeure. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 客が寄託していない物品であっても、場屋の中に携帯した物品が、場屋営業者が注意を怠ったことによって滅失し、又は損傷したときは、場屋営業者は、損害賠償の責任を負う。 art-596/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-596/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-596/par-2 An establishment's proprietor is liable to compensate for loss or damage if the goods that the customer has carried into an establishment are lost or damaged due to the proprietor's failure to exercise due care, even if these are goods that a customer has not bailed to it. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 客が場屋の中に携帯した物品につき責任を負わない旨を表示したときであっても、場屋営業者は、前二項の責任を免れることができない。 art-596/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-596/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-596/par-3 An establishment's proprietor may not be released from the liability referred to in the preceding two paragraphs even if it indicates that it does not assume liability for goods that customers carry into the establishment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-596/par-3: 前二項 → 商法 第五百九十六条第一項 (Article 596, paragraph (1)), art-596/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-596/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-596/par-1 - art-596/par-3: 前二項 → 商法 第五百九十六条第二項 (Article 596, paragraph (2)), art-596/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-596/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-596/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第五百九十六条第三項（場屋営業者の責任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-596/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-596/par-3 - 商法 第五百九十八条第一項（場屋営業者の責任に係る債権の消滅時効） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-598/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-598/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