# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第三百六十八条 (Article 368) - 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: 第三百六十八条 (Article 368)（少額訴訟の要件等） — address `art-368` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-368 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-368 - 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. --- ### 第三百六十八条（少額訴訟の要件等） — (Requirements for Small Claims Actions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-368 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-368 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-368 **第一項** 簡易裁判所においては、訴訟の目的の価額が六十万円以下の金銭の支払の請求を目的とする訴えについて、少額訴訟による審理及び裁判を求めることができる。ただし、同一の簡易裁判所において同一の年に最高裁判所規則で定める回数を超えてこれを求めることができない。 art-368/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-368/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-368/par-1 In summary court, a trial and judicial decision may be sought through a small claims action in respect of a claim for the payment of money, if the value of the subject matter of litigation is not more than 600,000 yen; provided, however, that a person may not file these actions with the same summary court more frequently than the number of times specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court in the same year. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 少額訴訟による審理及び裁判を求める旨の申述は、訴えの提起の際にしなければならない。 art-368/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-368/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-368/par-2 A statement indicating that a trial and judicial decision are sought through a small claims action must be entered at the time the action is filed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項の申述をするには、当該訴えを提起する簡易裁判所においてその年に少額訴訟による審理及び裁判を求めた回数を届け出なければならない。 art-368/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-368/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-368/par-3 In entering a statement as referred to in the preceding paragraph, the plaintiff must report the number of times in the relevant year that the plaintiff has sought trials and judicial decisions through small claims actions in the summary court where the plaintiff is filing the action. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-368/par-3: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百六十八条第二項 (Article 368, paragraph (2)), art-368/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-368/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-368/par-2 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第三百六十八条第三項（少額訴訟の要件等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-368/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-368/par-3 - 民事訴訟法 第三百七十三条第三項第一号（通常の手続への移行） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-373/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-373/par-3/item-1 - 民事訴訟法 第三百七十三条第三項第二号（通常の手続への移行） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-373/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-373/par-3/item-2 - 民事訴訟法 第三百八十一条第一項（過料） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-381/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-381/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 附則第四条第一項（少額訴訟に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4151-108/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4151-108/art-4/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