# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第百十一条 (Article 111) - Law: 民事訴訟法 (Code of Civil Procedure), 平成八年法律第百九号 - English title "Code of Civil Procedure": 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: 第百十一条 (Article 111)（公示送達の方法） — address `art-111` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-111 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-111 - 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. --- ### 第百十一条（公示送達の方法） — (Manner of Effecting Service by Publication) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-111 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-111 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-111 **第一項** 公示送達は、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事項を最高裁判所規則で定める方法により不特定多数の者が閲覧することができる状態に置く措置をとるとともに、当該事項が記載された書面を裁判所の掲示場に掲示し、又は当該事項を裁判所に設置した電子計算機の映像面に表示したものの閲覧をすることができる状態に置く措置をとることによってする。 art-111/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-111/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-111/par-1 Service by publication is effected by taking measures that will enable a large, non-exclusive group of persons to inspect the information that the following items prescribe for the categories stated in those items by the means specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court and posting a paper document giving that information at the posting area for the court, or by taking measures that will make it possible to inspect that information on the screen display of a computer located at the court: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 書類の公示送達　裁判所書記官が送達すべき書類を保管し、いつでも送達を受けるべき者に交付すべきこと。 art-111/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-111/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-111/par-1/item-1 service of documents by publication:that the court clerk retains the documents to be served and will deliver them to the person who is to be served at any time; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 電磁的記録の公示送達　裁判所書記官が、送達すべき電磁的記録に記録された事項につき、いつでも送達を受けるべき者に第百九条の書面を交付し、又は第百九条の二第一項本文の規定による措置をとるとともに、同項本文の通知を発すべきこと。 art-111/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-111/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-111/par-1/item-2 service of electronic or magnetic records by publication:that, in connection with the information recorded in the record to be served, the court clerk will deliver the paper documents referred to in Article 109 to the person to be served or will take the measures under the main clause of Article 109-2, paragraph (1) and issue a notice under the main clause of that paragraph, at any time. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-111/par-1/item-2: 第百九条 → 民事訴訟法 第百九条 (Article 109), art-109 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-109 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-109 - art-111/par-1/item-2: 第百九条の二第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第百九条の二第一項 (Article 109-2, paragraph (1)), art-109-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-109-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-109-2/par-1 ## Cited by 10 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第八百八十三条第一項（裁判書の送達） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-883/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-883/par-1 - 民事執行法 第二十条第一項（民事訴訟法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-20/par-1 - 民事執行法 第二十一条の二第一項（家庭裁判所における執行関係訴訟手続に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-21-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-21-2/par-1 - 民事執行法 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/appdx-1 - 民事執行法 別表第二 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/appdx-2 - 民事訴訟法 第百十二条第一項（公示送達の効力発生の時期） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-112/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-112/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 第百十三条第一項（公示送達による意思表示の到達） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-113/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-113/par-1 - 破産法 第十三条第一項（民事訴訟法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-13/par-1 - 破産法 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/appdx-1 - 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第二十一条第一項（民事訴訟法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-21/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/408AC0000000109/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Civil Procedure — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4797/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - This site's parser, version 209 — 民事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17