# 仲裁法 / Arbitration Act — 第三十九条 (Article 39) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-39. 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: 仲裁法 (Arbitration Act), 平成十五年法律第百三十八号 - English title "Arbitration 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: 第三十九条 (Article 39)（仲裁判断書） — address `art-39` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-39 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-39 - 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. --- ### 第三十九条（仲裁判断書） — (Written Arbitral Award) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-39 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-39 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-39 **第一項** 仲裁判断をするには、仲裁判断書を作成し、これに仲裁判断をした仲裁人が署名しなければならない。ただし、仲裁廷が合議体である場合には、仲裁廷を構成する仲裁人の過半数が署名し、かつ、他の仲裁人の署名がないことの理由を記載すれば足りる。 art-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-39/par-1 For an arbitral award to be made, a written arbitral award must be prepared and signed by the arbitrators who have made the arbitral award; provided, however, that if the arbitral tribunal is a panel, it will be sufficient that the written arbitral award is signed by the majority of the arbitrators constituting the arbitral tribunal and states the reasons for the signatures of other arbitrators being omitted. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "For an arbitral award to be made, a written arbitral award must be prepared and signed by the arbitrators who has made the arbitral award; provided, however, that if the arbitral tribunal is a panel, it will be sufficient that the written arbitral award is signed by the majority of the arbitrators constituting the arbitral tribunal and states the reasons for the signatures of other arbitrators being omitted." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4440/tb **第二項** 仲裁判断書には、理由を記載しなければならない。ただし、当事者間に別段の合意がある場合は、この限りでない。 art-39/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-39/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-39/par-2 A written arbitral award must state its reasons; provided, however, that this does not apply if otherwise agreed by the parties. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 仲裁判断書には、作成の年月日及び仲裁地を記載しなければならない。 art-39/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-39/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-39/par-3 A written arbitral award must state the date of the preparation and the place of arbitration. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 仲裁判断は、仲裁地においてされたものとみなす。 art-39/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-39/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-39/par-4 An arbitral award is deemed to have been made at the place of arbitration. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 仲裁廷は、仲裁判断がされたときは、仲裁人の署名のある仲裁判断書の写しを送付する方法により、仲裁判断を各当事者に通知しなければならない。 art-39/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-39/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-39/par-5 If an arbitral award has been made, the arbitral tribunal must notify each party of the arbitral award by sending a copy of the written arbitral award signed by the arbitrators. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第六項** 第一項ただし書の規定は、前項の仲裁判断書の写しについて準用する。 art-39/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-39/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-39/par-6 The provisions of the proviso to paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to the copy of the written arbitral award referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-39/par-6: 第一項 → 仲裁法 第三十九条第一項 (Article 39, paragraph (1)), art-39/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-39/par-1 - art-39/par-6: 前項 → 仲裁法 第三十九条第五項 (Article 39, paragraph (5)), art-39/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-39/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-39/par-5 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 仲裁法 第二十四条第十項（暫定保全措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-24/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-24/par-10 - 仲裁法 第三十八条第三項（和解） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-38/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-38/par-3 - 仲裁法 第三十九条第六項（仲裁判断書） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-39/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-39/par-6 - 仲裁法 第四十一条第六項（仲裁判断の訂正） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-41/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-41/par-6 - 仲裁法 第四十二条第三項（仲裁廷による仲裁判断の解釈） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-42/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-42/par-3 - 仲裁法 第四十三条第三項（追加仲裁判断） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-43/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-43/par-3 - 仲裁法 第五十二条第五項（仲裁費用の分担） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-52/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-52/par-5 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-11-02 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 仲裁法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000138/20260521_504AC0000000048), retrieved 2026-11-01 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Arbitration Act (仲裁法), Article 39, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4440/tb), retrieved 2026-11-01 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Arbitration Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4440/tb), retrieved 2026-11-01 - This site's parser, version 219 — 仲裁法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-01