# 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 / Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade — 第五十七条 (Article 57) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-57. 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: 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 (Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade), 昭和二十二年法律第五十四号 - English title "Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade": 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: 第五十七条 (Article 57) — address `art-57` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-57 - e-Gov law ID: 322AC0000000054 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十七条 art-57 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-57 **第一項** 指定職員は、当事者が正当な理由なく意見聴取の期日に出頭せず、かつ、第五十五条に規定する陳述書又は証拠を提出しない場合には、当該当事者に対し改めて意見を述べ、及び証拠を提出する機会を与えることなく、意見聴取を終結することができる。 art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-57/par-1 When the party fails to appear on the date of a hearing without justifiable grounds and to submit written statements or evidence pursuant to Article 55, the designated staff member may conclude the hearing without giving any further opportunity for the party to state its opinions and submit evidence. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 指定職員は、前項に規定する場合のほか、当事者が意見聴取の期日に出頭せず、かつ、第五十五条に規定する陳述書又は証拠を提出しない場合において、当該当事者の意見聴取の期日への出頭が相当期間引き続き見込めないときは、当該当事者に対し、期限を定めて陳述書及び証拠の提出を求め、当該期限が到来したときに意見聴取を終結することができる。 art-57/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-57/par-2 Beyond the case pursuant to the preceding paragraph, when the party fails to appear on the date of the hearing and does not submit written statements or evidence pursuant to Article 55, and when the party is not expected to appear on a date for hearing for a considerable period of time, the designated staff member may ask submission of written statements and evidence of them with the due date, and conclude the hearing when the due date falls. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Beyond the case pursuant to the preceding paragraph, when the party fails to appear on the date of the hearing and does not submit written statements or evidence pursuant to Article 55, and when the party is not expected to appear on a date for hearing for a considerable substantial period of time, the designated staff member may ask submission of written statements and evidence of them with the due date, and conclude the hearing when the due date falls." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5212/tb --- ## Cites - art-57/par-1: 第五十五条 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第五十五条 (Article 55), art-55 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-55 - art-57/par-2: 前項 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第五十七条第一項 (Article 57, paragraph (1)), art-57/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-57/par-1 - art-57/par-2: 第五十五条 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第五十五条 (Article 55), art-55 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-55 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第五十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-57/par-2 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第六十二条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-62/par-4 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第六十四条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-64/par-4 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第七十条の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-70-3/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-11-06 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000054/20260521_505AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade (私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律), Article 57, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5212/tb), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5212/tb), retrieved 2026-11-06 - This site's parser, version 225 — 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06