# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第三百五十五条 (Article 355) - 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: 第三百五十五条 (Article 355)（口頭弁論を経ない訴えの却下） — address `art-355` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-355 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-355 - 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. --- ### 第三百五十五条（口頭弁論を経ない訴えの却下） — (Denial of an Action, Without Oral Arguments Being Heard) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-355 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-355 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-355 **第一項** 請求の全部又は一部が手形訴訟による審理及び裁判をすることができないものであるときは、裁判所は、口頭弁論を経ないで、判決で、訴えの全部又は一部を却下することができる。 art-355/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-355/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-355/par-1 If the whole or part of a claim is not eligible for a trial and judicial decision by way of an action on bills and notes, the court may enter a judgment denying the whole or part of the action, without hearing oral arguments. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合において、原告が電子判決書の送達を受けた日から二週間以内に同項の請求について通常の手続により訴えを提起したときは、第百四十七条の規定の適用については、その訴えの提起は、前の訴えの提起の時にしたものとみなす。 art-355/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-355/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-355/par-2 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, to apply the provisions of Article 147 if the plaintiff files an action through ordinary proceedings on the claim referred to in that paragraph within two weeks from the day on which the electronic judgment is served on the plaintiff, the action is deemed to have been filed at the time of filing of the previous action. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-355/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百五十五条第一項 (Article 355, paragraph (1)), art-355/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-355/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-355/par-1 - art-355/par-2: 第百四十七条 → 民事訴訟法 第百四十七条 (Article 147), art-147 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-147 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-147 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 別表第二 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/appdx-2 - 民事訴訟法 第二百五十五条第一項（電子判決書等の送達） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-255/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-255/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 第三百五十五条第二項（口頭弁論を経ない訴えの却下） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-355/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-355/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第三百五十六条第一項（控訴の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-356/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-356/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 第三百六十七条第二項（小切手訴訟） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-367/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-367/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 附則第二十一条第一項（手形訴訟及び小切手訴訟における口頭弁論を経ない却下又は異議の申立てに関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-21/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-civil-procedure-20261017T235501-001, translated 2026-10-18 - This site's parser, version 209 — 民事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17