# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百二条 (Article 702) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-702. 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: 第七百二条 (Article 702)（船舶の賃借人による修繕） — address `art-702` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-702 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-702 - 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. --- ### 第七百二条（船舶の賃借人による修繕） — (Repairs by Ship's Lessee) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-702 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-702 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-702 **第一項** 船舶の賃借人であって商行為をする目的でその船舶を航海の用に供しているものは、その船舶を受け取った後にこれに生じた損傷があるときは、その利用に必要な修繕をする義務を負う。ただし、その損傷が賃貸人の責めに帰すべき事由によるものであるときは、この限りでない。 art-702/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-702/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-702/par-1 A lessee of a ship that uses that ship in a voyage at sea for the purpose of conducting commercial transactions bears the obligation to make the repairs needed to enable the use of the ship if the ship incurs any damage after the lessee receives it; provided, however, that this does not apply if the cause of the damage is attributable to the lessor. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A lessee of a ship that uses that ship in a voyage at sea for the purpose of conducting commercial acts bears the obligation to make the repairs needed to enable the use of the ship if the ship incurs any damage after the lessee receives it; provided, however, that this does not apply if the cause of the damage is attributable to the lessor." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第七百三条第一項（船舶の賃借人の権利義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-703/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-703/par-1 - 商法 附則第九条第一項（船舶賃貸借に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4301-29/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4301-29/art-9/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-11-05 - 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 (商法), Article 702, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb), 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