# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第二百六十五条 (Article 265) - 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: 第二百六十五条 (Article 265)（詐欺破産罪） — address `art-265` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-265 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-265 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二百六十五条（詐欺破産罪） — (Crime of Bankruptcy Fraud) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-265 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-265 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-265 **第一項** 破産手続開始の前後を問わず、債権者を害する目的で、次の各号のいずれかに該当する行為をした者は、債務者（相続財産の破産にあっては相続財産、信託財産の破産にあっては信託財産。次項において同じ。）について破産手続開始の決定が確定したときは、十年以下の拘禁刑若しくは千万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。情を知って、第四号に掲げる行為の相手方となった者も、破産手続開始の決定が確定したときは、同様とする。 art-265/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-265/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-265/par-1 Regardless of whether before or after the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings, a person that has conducted any of the following acts for the purpose of harming creditors is punishable by imprisonment for ten years or less or a fine of ten million yen or less, or both, when an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings against the debtor (in the case of bankruptcy of estate, the estate, and in the case of bankruptcy of trust property, the trust property; the same applies in the following paragraph) becomes final and binding. The same applies to a person that has knowingly served as the other party to the act stated in item (iv) when an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings becomes final and binding: machine translation, not official **一** 債務者の財産（相続財産の破産にあっては相続財産に属する財産、信託財産の破産にあっては信託財産に属する財産。以下この条において同じ。）を隠匿し、又は損壊する行為 art-265/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-265/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-265/par-1/item-1 an act of concealing or damaging the debtor's property (in the case of bankruptcy of estate, property that belongs to the estate, and in the case of bankruptcy of trust property, property that comes under the trust property; the same applies below in this Article); machine translation, not official **二** 債務者の財産の譲渡又は債務の負担を仮装する行為 art-265/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-265/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-265/par-1/item-2 an act of faking the transfer of the debtor's property or assumption of debts; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 債務者の財産の現状を改変して、その価格を減損する行為 art-265/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-265/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-265/par-1/item-3 an act of altering the existing status of the debtor's property, thereby reducing its value; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 債務者の財産を債権者の不利益に処分し、又は債権者に不利益な債務を債務者が負担する行為 art-265/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-265/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-265/par-1/item-4 an act of disposing of the debtor's property in a manner disadvantageous to creditors, or an act of assuming debts disadvantageous to creditors by the debtor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項に規定するもののほか、債務者について破産手続開始の決定がされ、又は保全管理命令が発せられたことを認識しながら、債権者を害する目的で、破産管財人の承諾その他の正当な理由がなく、その債務者の財産を取得し、又は第三者に取得させた者も、同項と同様とする。 art-265/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-265/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-265/par-2 Beyond what is prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the same also applies to a person that has acquired the debtor's property or has had a third party acquire the property without the consent of a bankruptcy trustee or any other legitimate grounds, knowing that an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings has been issued or an order for temporary administration has been issued against a debtor for the purpose of harming creditors Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-265/par-1: 次項 → 破産法 第二百六十五条第二項 (Article 265, paragraph (2)), art-265/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-265/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-265/par-2 - art-265/par-1: 第四号 → 破産法 第二百六十五条第一項第四号 (Article 265, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-265/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-265/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-265/par-1/item-4 - art-265/par-1/item-1: この条 → 破産法 第二百六十五条 (Article 265), art-265 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-265 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-265 - art-265/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第二百六十五条第一項 (Article 265, paragraph (1)), art-265/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-265/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-265/par-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第三百三十一条第一項第三号（取締役の資格等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-331/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-331/par-1/item-3 - 破産法 第二百五十四条第一項（免責取消しの決定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-254/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-254/par-1 - 破産法 第二百五十五条第一項第四号（復権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-255/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-255/par-1/item-4 - 破産法 第二百六十五条第一項（詐欺破産罪） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-265/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-265/par-1 - 破産法 第二百六十五条第一項第一号（詐欺破産罪） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-265/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-265/par-1/item-1 - 破産法 第二百六十五条第二項（詐欺破産罪） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-265/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-265/par-2 - 破産法 第二百七十六条第一項（国外犯） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-276/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-276/par-1 - 破産法 第二百七十七条第一項（両罰規定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-277/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-277/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch bankruptcy-act-20261019T021325-003, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 204 — 破産法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19