# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第三百七十八条 (Article 378) - 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: 第三百七十八条 (Article 378)（異議） — address `art-378` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-378 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-378 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三百七十八条（異議） — (Objections) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-378 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-378 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-378 **第一項** 少額訴訟の終局判決に対しては、電子判決書又は第二百五十四条第二項（第三百七十四条第二項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定により当事者及び法定代理人、主文、請求並びに理由の要旨が記録された電子調書の送達を受けた日から二週間の不変期間内に、その判決をした裁判所に異議を申し立てることができる。ただし、その期間前に申し立てた異議の効力を妨げない。 art-378/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-378/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-378/par-1 An objection against the final judgment in a small claims action may be lodged with the court that has entered that judgment, within an inalterable period frame of two weeks from the day on which an electronic judgment or an electronic record recording the parties and legal representatives, the main text, the claims, and the gist of the grounds pursuant to the provisions of Article 254, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 374, paragraph (2)) is served; provided, however, that this does not preclude the validity of an objection lodged prior to that time frame. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第三百五十八条から第三百六十条までの規定は、前項の異議について準用する。 art-378/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-378/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-378/par-2 The provisions of Articles 358 through 360 apply mutatis mutandis to the objection referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-378/par-1: 第二百五十四条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百五十四条第二項 (Article 254, paragraph (2)), art-254/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-254/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-254/par-2 - art-378/par-1: 第三百七十四条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百七十四条第二項 (Article 374, paragraph (2)), art-374/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-374/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-374/par-2 - art-378/par-2: 第三百五十八条から第三百六十条まで → 民事訴訟法 第三百五十八条 (Article 358), art-358 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-358 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-358 - art-378/par-2: 第三百五十八条から第三百六十条まで → 民事訴訟法 第三百五十九条 (Article 359), art-359 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-359 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-359 - art-378/par-2: 第三百五十八条から第三百六十条まで → 民事訴訟法 第三百六十条 (Article 360), art-360 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-360 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-360 - art-378/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百七十八条第一項 (Article 378, paragraph (1)), art-378/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-378/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-378/par-1 ## Cited by 8 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 第三十二条第二項第三号（被保佐人、被補助人及び法定代理人の訴訟行為の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-32/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-32/par-2/item-3 - 民事訴訟法 第五十五条第二項第四号（訴訟代理権の範囲） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-55/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-55/par-2/item-4 - 民事訴訟法 第百十六条第一項（判決の確定時期） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-116/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-116/par-1 - 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 第三百七十八条第二項（異議） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-378/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-378/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第三百八十条第一項（異議後の判決に対する不服申立て） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-380/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-380/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 附則第二十二条第一項（少額訴訟の判決の言渡し等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-22/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