# 少年法 / Juveniles Act — 第五十九条 (Article 59) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-59. 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: 少年法 (Juveniles Act), 昭和二十三年法律第百六十八号 - English title "Juveniles Act": 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: 第五十九条 (Article 59)（仮釈放期間の終了） — address `art-59` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-59 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-59 - 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. --- ### 第五十九条（仮釈放期間の終了） — (Termination of the Parole Period) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-59 **第一項** 少年のとき無期拘禁刑の言渡しを受けた者が、仮釈放後、その処分を取り消されないで十年を経過したときは、刑の執行を受け終わつたものとする。 art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-59/par-1 If a person who has been sentenced to imprisonment for life as a juvenile has been paroled, and ten years have passed without revocation of the parole, then the person is deemed to have served their full sentence. machine translation, not official **第二項** 少年のとき第五十一条第二項又は第五十二条第一項若しくは同条第一項及び第二項の規定により有期拘禁刑の言渡しを受けた者が、仮釈放後、その処分を取り消されないで仮釈放前に刑の執行を受けた期間と同一の期間又は第五十一条第二項の刑期若しくは第五十二条第一項の長期を経過したときは、そのいずれか早い時期において、刑の執行を受け終わつたものとする。 art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-59/par-2 If a person who has been sentenced to imprisonment for a fixed term as a juvenile, pursuant to the provisions of Article 51, paragraph (2), or pursuant to the provisions of Article 52, paragraph (1) or paragraphs (1) and (2) of that Article, has been paroled, and, without revocation of the parole, a period equal to the period during which the person served the sentence before being paroled, or the term of sentence prescribed in Article 51, paragraph (2) or the maximum term of imprisonment prescribed in Article 52, paragraph (1), has passed, then the person is deemed to have served their full sentence at whichever of those times comes first. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-59/par-2: 第五十一条第二項 → 少年法 第五十一条第二項 (Article 51, paragraph (2)), art-51/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-51/par-2 - art-59/par-2: 第五十二条第一項 → 少年法 第五十二条第一項 (Article 52, paragraph (1)), art-52/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-52/par-1 - art-59/par-2: 第二項 → 少年法 第五十二条第二項 (Article 52, paragraph (2)), art-52/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-52/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-52/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 少年法 第六十七条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-67/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-67/par-5 - 少年法 附則第二条第一項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/suppl-4261-23/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/suppl-4261-23/art-2/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 少年法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000168/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Juveniles Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4827/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch juvenile-act-20261102T172711-002, translated 2026-11-03 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch juvenile-act-20261102T172711-002, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 220 — 少年法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02