# 民法 / Civil Code — 第五百八十九条 (Article 589) - 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: 第五百八十九条 (Article 589)（利息） — address `art-589` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-589 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-589 - 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. --- ### 第五百八十九条（利息） — (Interest) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-589 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-589 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-589 **第一項** 貸主は、特約がなければ、借主に対して利息を請求することができない。 art-589/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-589/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-589/par-1 In the absence of any special agreement, the lender may not demand interest from the borrower. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の特約があるときは、貸主は、借主が金銭その他の物を受け取った日以後の利息を請求することができる。 art-589/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-589/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-589/par-2 If there is any special agreement referred to in the preceding paragraph, the lender may demand from the borrower interest that accrues from the day on which the borrower receives the thing such as money. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-589/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第五百八十九条第一項 (Article 589, paragraph (1)), art-589/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-589/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-589/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第五百八十九条第二項（利息） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-589/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-589/par-2 - 民法 第五百九十条第一項（貸主の引渡義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-590/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-590/par-1 - 民法 第五百九十条第二項（貸主の引渡義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-590/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-590/par-2 --- ## 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