# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二百二十二条 (Article 222) - 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: 第二百二十二条 (Article 222)（文書の特定のための手続） — address `art-222` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-222 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-222 - 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. --- ### 第二百二十二条（文書の特定のための手続） — (Procedures for Identifying a Document) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-222 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-222 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-222 **第一項** 文書提出命令の申立てをする場合において、前条第一項第一号又は第二号に掲げる事項を明らかにすることが著しく困難であるときは、その申立ての時においては、これらの事項に代えて、文書の所持者がその申立てに係る文書を識別することができる事項を明らかにすれば足りる。この場合においては、裁判所に対し、文書の所持者に当該文書についての同項第一号又は第二号に掲げる事項を明らかにすることを求めるよう申し出なければならない。 art-222/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-222/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-222/par-1 If a person files a petition for an order to submit a document but it is extremely difficult to clarify the particulars stated in paragraph (1), item (i) or (ii) of the preceding Article, it is sufficient for the person, in lieu of those particulars, to clarify any particulars by which the person in possession of the document can identify the document that the petition concerns, when filing the petition. In such a case, the petitioner must ask the court to request the person in possession of the document to clarify the particulars stated in item (i) or item (ii) of that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による申出があったときは、裁判所は、文書提出命令の申立てに理由がないことが明らかな場合を除き、文書の所持者に対し、同項後段の事項を明らかにすることを求めることができる。 art-222/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-222/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-222/par-2 When a motion under the provisions of the preceding paragraph is made, unless the petition for an order to submit the document is clearly groundless, the court may request the person in possession of the document to clarify the particulars referred to in the second sentence of that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-222/par-1: 前条第一項第一号 → 民事訴訟法 第二百二十一条第一項第一号 (Article 221, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-221/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-221/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-221/par-1/item-1 - art-222/par-1: 第二号 → 民事訴訟法 第二百二十一条第一項第二号 (Article 221, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-221/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-221/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-221/par-1/item-2 - art-222/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百二十二条第一項 (Article 222, paragraph (1)), art-222/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-222/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-222/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第二百二十二条第二項（文書の特定のための手続） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-222/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-222/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第二百三十一条の三第一項（書証の規定の準用等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-231-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-231-3/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