# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第三条の九 (Article 3-9) - 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: 第三条の九 (Article 3-9)（特別の事情による訴えの却下） — address `art-3-9` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-3-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-3-9 - 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. --- ### 第三条の九（特別の事情による訴えの却下） — (Denial Due to Special Circumstances) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-3-9 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-3-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-3-9 **第一項** 裁判所は、訴えについて日本の裁判所が管轄権を有することとなる場合（日本の裁判所にのみ訴えを提起することができる旨の合意に基づき訴えが提起された場合を除く。）においても、事案の性質、応訴による被告の負担の程度、証拠の所在地その他の事情を考慮して、日本の裁判所が審理及び裁判をすることが当事者間の衡平を害し、又は適正かつ迅速な審理の実現を妨げることとなる特別の事情があると認めるときは、その訴えの全部又は一部を却下することができる。 art-3-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-3-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-3-9/par-1 Even when the Japanese courts have jurisdiction over an action (unless an action is filed based on an agreement that only permits an action to be filed with the Japanese courts), the court may deny the whole or part of an action if it finds that there are special circumstances because of which, if the Japanese courts were to conduct a trial and reach a judicial decision in the action, it would be inequitable to either party or prevent a fair and speedy trial, in consideration of the nature of the case, the degree of burden that the defendant would have to bear in responding to the action, the location of evidence, and other circumstances. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第三条の十第一項（管轄権が専属する場合の適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-3-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-3-10/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