# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第三百八十七条 (Article 387)

- 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: 第三百八十七条 (Article 387)（電子支払督促の記録事項） — address `art-387`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-387
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### 第三百八十七条（電子支払督促の記録事項） — Particulars That Must Be Recorded in an Electronic Demand for Payment
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-387 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-387 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-387</sup>

  **第一項**  裁判所書記官は、支払督促を発するときは、最高裁判所規則で定めるところにより、電子支払督促（次に掲げる事項を記録し、かつ、債務者がその送達を受けた日から二週間以内に督促異議の申立てをしないときは債権者の申立てにより仮執行の宣言をする旨を併せて記録した電磁的記録をいう。以下この章において同じ。）を作成しなければならない。
  <sup>art-387/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-387/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-387/par-1</sup>
  When issuing a demand for payment, the court clerk must create an electronic demand for payment (meaning an electronic or magnetic record containing the following and including a supplementary note indicating that if the debtor does not lodge an objection to the demand within two weeks after the day on which the debtor is served with the demand for payment, a declaration of provisional enforceability will be issued at the petition of the creditor; the same applies in this Chapter) as provided for by the Rules of the Supreme Court:
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

    **一**  第三百八十二条の給付を命ずる旨
    <sup>art-387/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-387/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-387/par-1/item-1</sup>
    an indication that the debtor is being ordered to make a payment or delivery as referred to in Article 382;
    <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

    **二**  請求の趣旨及び原因
    <sup>art-387/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-387/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-387/par-1/item-2</sup>
    the prayer for relief and a statement of the claim;
    <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

    **三**  当事者及び法定代理人
    <sup>art-387/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-387/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-387/par-1/item-3</sup>
    the parties and legal representatives.
    <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第二項**  裁判所書記官は、前項の規定により電子支払督促を作成したときは、最高裁判所規則で定めるところにより、これをファイルに記録しなければならない。
  <sup>art-387/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-387/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-387/par-2</sup>
  When a court clerk has created an electronic demand for payment pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, they must record it in the court's computer files as provided for by the Rules of the Supreme Court.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-387/par-1/item-1: 第三百八十二条 → 民事訴訟法 第三百八十二条 (Article 382), art-382 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-382 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-382
- art-387/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百八十七条第一項 (Article 387, paragraph (1)), art-387/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-387/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-387/par-1

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 民事訴訟法 第三百八十七条第二項（電子支払督促の記録事項） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-387/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-387/par-2
- 民事訴訟法 第三百八十八条第一項（電子支払督促の送達） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-388/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-388/par-1
- 民事訴訟法 附則第二十四条第一項（督促手続に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-24/par-1

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## 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
