# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第百九十八条 (Article 198) - Law: 民事執行法 (Civil Enforcement Act), 昭和五十四年法律第四号 - English title "Civil Enforcement 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: 第百九十八条 (Article 198)（期日指定及び期日の呼出し） — address `art-198` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-198 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-198 - 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. --- ### 第百九十八条（期日指定及び期日の呼出し） — (Designation of the Date and Summons for the Date) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-198 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-198 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-198 **第一項** 執行裁判所は、前条第一項又は第二項の決定が確定したときは、財産開示期日を指定しなければならない。 art-198/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-198/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-198/par-1 An enforcement court must designate the asset disclosure date when the order referred to in paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) of the preceding Article has become final and binding. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 財産開示期日には、次に掲げる者を呼び出さなければならない。 art-198/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-198/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-198/par-2 The following persons must be summoned for the asset disclosure date: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 申立人 art-198/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-198/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-198/par-2/item-1 the petitioner; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 債務者（債務者に法定代理人がある場合にあつては当該法定代理人、債務者が法人である場合にあつてはその代表者） art-198/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-198/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-198/par-2/item-2 the obligor (or, if the obligor has a statutory agent, the statutory agent, and if the obligor is a corporation, its representative). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-198/par-1: 前条第一項 → 民事執行法 第百九十七条第一項 (Article 197, paragraph (1)), art-197/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-197/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-197/par-1 - art-198/par-1: 第二項 → 民事執行法 第百九十七条第二項 (Article 197, paragraph (2)), art-197/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-197/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-197/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第百九十九条第一項（財産開示期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-199/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-199/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民事執行法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/354AC0000000004/20260521_505AC0000000053), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Enforcement Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4900/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 204 — 民事執行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19