# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第八十三条 (Article 83) - 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: 第八十三条 (Article 83)（破産管財人による調査等） — address `art-83` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-83 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-83 - 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. --- ### 第八十三条（破産管財人による調査等） — (Investigation by Bankruptcy Trustees) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-83 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-83 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-83 **第一項** 破産管財人は、第四十条第一項各号に掲げる者及び同条第二項に規定する者に対して同条の規定による説明を求め、又は破産財団に関する帳簿、書類その他の物件を検査することができる。 art-83/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-83/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-83/par-1 A bankruptcy trustee may request any of the persons stated in the items of Article 40, paragraph (1) and any of the persons prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article to give an explanation pursuant to the provisions of that Article, or may inspect books, documents, and any other objects relating to the bankruptcy estate. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 破産管財人は、その職務を行うため必要があるときは、破産者の子会社等（次の各号に掲げる区分に応じ、それぞれ当該各号に定める法人をいう。次項において同じ。）に対して、その業務及び財産の状況につき説明を求め、又はその帳簿、書類その他の物件を検査することができる。 art-83/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-83/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-83/par-2 A bankruptcy trustee may request a subsidiary company, etc. (meaning a corporation specified in each of the following items for the category stated in the respective items; the same applies in the following paragraph) of the bankrupt to give an explanation on the status of their business and property, or may inspect their books, documents, and any other materials if it is necessary to do so in order to perform their duties: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 破産者が株式会社である場合　破産者の子会社（会社法第二条第三号に規定する子会社をいう。） art-83/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-83/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-83/par-2/item-1 if the bankrupt is a stock company:a subsidiary company (meaning a subsidiary company prescribed in Article 2, item (iii) of the Companies Act) of the bankrupt; Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "if the bankrupt is a stock company:a subsidiary company (meaning a subsidiary company prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (iii) of the Companies Act) of the bankrupt;" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4895/tb **二** 破産者が株式会社以外のものである場合　破産者が株式会社の総株主の議決権の過半数を有する場合における当該株式会社 art-83/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-83/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-83/par-2/item-2 if the bankrupt is a person other than a stock company:a stock company in which the bankrupt holds the majority of voting rights held by all shareholders; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 破産者（株式会社以外のものに限る。以下この項において同じ。）の子会社等又は破産者及びその子会社等が他の株式会社の総株主の議決権の過半数を有する場合には、前項の規定の適用については、当該他の株式会社を当該破産者の子会社等とみなす。 art-83/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-83/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-83/par-3 If a subsidiary company, etc. of the bankrupt (limited to a person other than a stock company; the same applies below in this paragraph) independently holds or the bankrupt and the bankrupt's subsidiary company, etc. jointly hold the majority of voting rights held by all shareholders of another stock company, for the purpose of application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the other stock company is deemed to be a subsidiary company of the bankrupt. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-83/par-1: 第四十条第一項 → 破産法 第四十条第一項 (Article 40, paragraph (1)), art-40/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-40/par-1 - art-83/par-1: 同条第二項 → 破産法 第四十条第二項 (Article 40, paragraph (2)), art-40/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-40/par-2 - art-83/par-1: 同条 → 破産法 第四十条 (Article 40), art-40 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-40 - art-83/par-2: 次項 → 破産法 第八十三条第三項 (Article 83, paragraph (3)), art-83/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-83/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-83/par-3 - art-83/par-2/item-1: 会社法第二条第三号 → 会社法 第二条第一項第三号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-2/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-2/par-1/item-3 - art-83/par-3: この項 → 破産法 第八十三条第三項 (Article 83, paragraph (3)), art-83/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-83/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-83/par-3 - art-83/par-3: 前項 → 破産法 第八十三条第二項 (Article 83, paragraph (2)), art-83/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-83/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-83/par-2 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第五条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-5/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-5/par-3 - 破産法 第八十三条第二項（破産管財人による調査等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-83/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-83/par-2 - 破産法 第八十三条第三項（破産管財人による調査等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-83/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-83/par-3 - 破産法 第九十六条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-96/par-1 - 破産法 第二百六十八条第三項（説明及び検査の拒絶等の罪） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-268/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-268/par-3 - 破産法 第二百六十八条第四項（説明及び検査の拒絶等の罪） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-268/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-268/par-4 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Bankruptcy Act (破産法), Article 83, paragraph (2), item (i) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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