# 不正競争防止法 / Unfair Competition Prevention Act — 第六条 (Article 6) - Law: 不正競争防止法 (Unfair Competition Prevention Act), 平成五年法律第四十七号 - English title "Unfair Competition Prevention 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: 第六条 (Article 6)（具体的態様の明示義務） — address `art-6` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-6 - 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. --- ### 第六条（具体的態様の明示義務） — (Obligation to Clarify Specific Circumstances) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-6 **第一項** 不正競争による営業上の利益の侵害に係る訴訟において、不正競争によって営業上の利益を侵害され、又は侵害されるおそれがあると主張する者が侵害の行為を組成したものとして主張する物又は方法の具体的態様を否認するときは、相手方は、自己の行為の具体的態様を明らかにしなければならない。ただし、相手方において明らかにすることができない相当の理由があるときは、この限りでない。 art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-6/par-1 In litigation involving infringement that may harm business interests through unfair competition, if a person claims that their interests have been or are likely to be harmed by such infringement, and the opposing party denies the specific circumstances surrounding the things or process that constitute the alleged infringement, the opposing party must clarify the specific circumstances of their actions; provided, however, that this does not apply if the opposing party has adequate grounds for being unable to clarify them. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不正競争防止法 第十九条第一項（適用除外等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-19/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 不正競争防止法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/405AC0000000047/20260521_507AC0000000039), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Unfair Competition Prevention Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4920/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 189 — 不正競争防止法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11