# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第三百四十六条 (Article 346) - 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: 第三百四十六条 (Article 346)（再審開始の決定） — address `art-346` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-346 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-346 - 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. --- ### 第三百四十六条（再審開始の決定） — (Ruling to Commence Retrial) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-346 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-346 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-346 **第一項** 裁判所は、再審の事由がある場合には、再審開始の決定をしなければならない。 art-346/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-346/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-346/par-1 If there are grounds for a retrial, the court must rule to commence the retrial. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 裁判所は、前項の決定をする場合には、相手方を審尋しなければならない。 art-346/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-346/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-346/par-2 Before issuing the ruling referred to in the preceding paragraph, the court must hear the adverse party. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-346/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百四十六条第一項 (Article 346, paragraph (1)), art-346/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-346/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-346/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第三百四十六条第二項（再審開始の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-346/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-346/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第三百四十七条第一項（即時抗告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-347/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-347/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 第三百四十九条第二項（決定又は命令に対する再審） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-349/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-349/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