# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第二百七十五条 (Article 275) - 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: 第二百七十五条 (Article 275)（破産者等に対する面会強請等の罪） — address `art-275` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-275 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-275 - 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. --- ### 第二百七十五条（破産者等に対する面会強請等の罪） — (Crime of Forcibly Demanding Meeting with the Bankrupt) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-275 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-275 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-275 **第一項** 破産者（個人である破産者に限り、相続財産の破産にあっては、相続人。以下この条において同じ。）又はその親族その他の者に破産債権（免責手続の終了後にあっては、免責されたものに限る。以下この条において同じ。）を弁済させ、又は破産債権につき破産者の親族その他の者に保証をさせる目的で、破産者又はその親族その他の者に対し、面会を強請し、又は強談威迫の行為をした者は、三年以下の拘禁刑若しくは三百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。 art-275/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-275/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-275/par-1 A person that has forcibly demanded a meeting with the bankrupt or their relative or any other person, or intimidated any of these persons for the purpose of forcing the bankrupt (limited to a bankrupt who is an individual, or in the case of bankruptcy of the estate, an heir; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) or their relative or any other person to pay a bankruptcy claim (after the closing of discharge proceedings, limited to those discharged; the same applies below in this Article), or for the purpose of forcing the bankrupt's relative or any other person to guarantee a bankruptcy claim is punishable by imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine of not more than three million yen, or both. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-275/par-1: この条 → 破産法 第二百七十五条 (Article 275), art-275 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-275 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-275 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第二百七十五条第一項（破産者等に対する面会強請等の罪） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-275/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-275/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 - This site's parser, version 204 — 破産法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19