# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百十五条 (Article 715) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-715. 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: 第七百十五条 (Article 715)（船長の解任） — address `art-715` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-715 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-715 - 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. --- ### 第七百十五条（船長の解任） — (Dismissal of Master) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-715 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-715 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-715 **第一項** 船舶所有者は、いつでも、船長を解任することができる。 art-715/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-715/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-715/par-1 A shipowner may dismiss the master at any time. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により解任された船長は、その解任について正当な理由がある場合を除き、船舶所有者に対し、解任によって生じた損害の賠償を請求することができる。 art-715/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-715/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-715/par-2 The master who is dismissed pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may demand compensation from the shipowner for loss or damage arising from the dismissal, unless there are reasonable grounds for the dismissal. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 船長が船舶共有者である場合において、その意に反して解任されたときは、船長は、他の船舶共有者に対し、相当の対価で自己の持分を買い取ることを請求することができる。 art-715/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-715/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-715/par-3 If the master is one of the part owners of the ship and is subject to involuntary dismissal, the master may demand that the other part owners buy out the master's share at a reasonable price. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 船長は、前項の規定による請求をしようとするときは、遅滞なく、他の船舶共有者又は船舶管理人に対してその旨の通知を発しなければならない。 art-715/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-715/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-715/par-4 Before seeking to make the demand under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the master must issue notice of this to the other part owners or to the ship's manager without delay. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Before seeking to make the demand under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the master must issue notice of this to the other part owners or to the ship's husband without delay." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb --- ## Cites - art-715/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第七百十五条第一項 (Article 715, paragraph (1)), art-715/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-715/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-715/par-1 - art-715/par-4: 前項 → 商法 第七百十五条第三項 (Article 715, paragraph (3)), art-715/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-715/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-715/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第七百十五条第二項（船長の解任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-715/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-715/par-2 - 商法 第七百十五条第四項（船長の解任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-715/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-715/par-4 --- ## 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 715, paragraph (4) — 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