# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第百六十七条 (Article 167) - 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: 第百六十七条 (Article 167)（準備的口頭弁論終了後の攻撃防御方法の提出） — address `art-167` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-167 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-167 - 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. --- ### 第百六十七条（準備的口頭弁論終了後の攻撃防御方法の提出） — (Presentation of Allegations and Evidence After the Close of Preliminary Oral Arguments) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-167 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-167 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-167 **第一項** 準備的口頭弁論の終了後に攻撃又は防御の方法を提出した当事者は、相手方の求めがあるときは、相手方に対し、準備的口頭弁論の終了前にこれを提出することができなかった理由を説明しなければならない。 art-167/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-167/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-167/par-1 At the request of the adverse party, a party that has presented allegations or evidence after the close of preliminary oral arguments must explain to the adverse party the reasons that the party was unable to present the allegations or evidence prior to the close of preliminary oral arguments. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第百七十四条第一項（弁論準備手続終結後の攻撃防御方法の提出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-174/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-174/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 第二百九十八条第二項（第一審の訴訟行為の効力等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-298/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-298/par-2 --- ## 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