# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第百六十六条 (Article 166) - 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: 第百六十六条 (Article 166)（当事者の不出頭等による終了） — address `art-166` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-166 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-166 - 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. --- ### 第百六十六条（当事者の不出頭等による終了） — (Closing of Proceedings Due to a Party's Non-Appearance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-166 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-166 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-166 **第一項** 当事者が期日に出頭せず、又は第百六十二条第一項の規定により定められた期間内に準備書面の提出若しくは証拠の申出をしないときは、裁判所は、準備的口頭弁論を終了することができる。 art-166/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-166/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-166/par-1 If a party does not appear for a court date or does not submit a brief or offer evidence within the time frame specified pursuant to the provisions of Article 162, paragraph (1), the court may close preliminary oral arguments. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-166/par-1: 第百六十二条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第百六十二条第一項 (Article 162, paragraph (1)), art-162/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-162/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-162/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第百七十条第五項（弁論準備手続における訴訟行為等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-170/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-170/par-5 --- ## 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