# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三十条 (Article 30) - Law: 民法 (Civil Code), 明治二十九年法律第八十九号 - English title "Civil Code": 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: 第三十条 (Article 30)（失踪の宣告） — address `art-30` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-30 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-30 - 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. --- ### 第三十条（失踪の宣告） — (Declarations of Presumed Death) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-30 **第一項** 不在者の生死が七年間明らかでないときは、家庭裁判所は、利害関係人の請求により、失踪の宣告をすることができる。 art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-30/par-1 If it has been unclear for seven years whether an absentee is dead or alive, the family court may enter a declaration of presumed death at the request of an interested person. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 戦地に臨んだ者、沈没した船舶の中に在った者その他死亡の原因となるべき危難に遭遇した者の生死が、それぞれ、戦争が止んだ後、船舶が沈没した後又はその他の危難が去った後一年間明らかでないときも、前項と同様とする。 art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-30/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph also apply if it has been unclear whether a person who has entered a war zone, was aboard a vessel that has sunk, or was otherwise exposed to a danger likely to result in a person's death is dead or alive, for one year after the war has ended, the vessel sank, or other danger has passed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-30/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第三十条第一項 (Article 30, paragraph (1)), art-30/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-30/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第三十条第二項（失踪の宣告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-30/par-2 - 民法 第三十一条第一項（失踪の宣告の効力） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-31/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/129AC0000000089/20260624_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11