# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第百五十五条 (Article 155) - Law: 破産法 (Bankruptcy Act), 平成十六年法律第七十五号 - English title "Bankruptcy 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: 第百五十五条 (Article 155)（封印及び帳簿の閉鎖） — address `art-155` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-155 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-155 - 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. --- ### 第百五十五条（封印及び帳簿の閉鎖） — (Sealing and Closing of Books) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-155 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-155 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-155 **第一項** 破産管財人は、必要があると認めるときは、裁判所書記官、執行官又は公証人に、破産財団に属する財産に封印をさせ、又はその封印を除去させることができる。 art-155/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-155/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-155/par-1 A bankruptcy trustee may, when they find it necessary, have the court clerk, court enforcement officer, or notary put a seal on the property that belongs to a bankruptcy estate or remove the seal. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 裁判所書記官は、必要があると認めるときは、破産管財人の申出により、破産財団に関する帳簿を閉鎖することができる。 art-155/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-155/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-155/par-2 The court clerk may close books relating to the bankruptcy estate upon the petition of a bankruptcy trustee when they find it necessary. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第二百七十条第一項（業務及び財産の状況に関する物件の隠滅等の罪） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-270/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-270/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 破産法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/416AC0000000075/20260521_505AC0000000053), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Bankruptcy Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4895/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 204 — 破産法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19