# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第九十一条 (Article 91) - 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: 第九十一条 (Article 91)（非電磁的訴訟記録の閲覧等） — address `art-91` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-91 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-91 - 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. --- ### 第九十一条（非電磁的訴訟記録の閲覧等） — (Access to Non-Electronic or Magnetic Case Records) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-91 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-91 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-91 **第一項** 何人も、裁判所書記官に対し、非電磁的訴訟記録（訴訟記録中次条第一項に規定する電磁的訴訟記録を除いた部分をいう。以下この条において同じ。）の閲覧を請求することができる。 art-91/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-91/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-91/par-1 Any person may file a request with the court clerk to inspect a hard-copy case records (meaning the portion of the case records excluding the electronic or magnetic case records as prescribed in paragraph (1) of the following Article; the same applies in this Article). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 公開を禁止した口頭弁論に係る非電磁的訴訟記録については、当事者及び利害関係を疎明した第三者に限り、前項の規定による請求をすることができる。非電磁的訴訟記録中第二百六十四条の和解条項案に係る部分、第二百六十五条第一項の規定による和解条項の定めに係る部分及び第二百六十七条第一項に規定する和解（口頭弁論の期日において成立したものを除く。）に係る部分についても、同様とする。 art-91/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-91/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-91/par-2 Only the parties to the case or a third party that makes a prima facie showing of interest in the case may file the request under the provisions of the preceding paragraph with regard to a hard-copy case records involving oral arguments that are prohibited from being disclosed to the public. The same applies to the portion of the hard-copy case records concerning the proposed terms of settlement under Article 264, the terms of settlement under the provisions of Article 265, paragraph (1) and the settlement as prescribed in Article 267, paragraph (1) (excluding a settlement that is concluded on the date for oral arguments). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 当事者及び利害関係を疎明した第三者は、裁判所書記官に対し、非電磁的訴訟記録の謄写又はその正本、謄本若しくは抄本の交付を請求することができる。 art-91/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-91/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-91/par-3 The parties to a case and any third party that makes a prima facie showing of interest in the case may file a request with the court clerk to copy the hard-copy case records, or to issue an authenticated copy, transcript or extract of the electronic or magnetic case records. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 前項の規定は、非電磁的訴訟記録中の録音テープ又はビデオテープ（これらに準ずる方法により一定の事項を記録した物を含む。）に関しては、適用しない。この場合において、これらの物について当事者又は利害関係を疎明した第三者の請求があるときは、裁判所書記官は、その複製を許さなければならない。 art-91/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-91/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-91/par-4 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply with respect to hard-copy case records that have been prepared in the form of audiotapes or videotapes (including objects onto which a fixed set of information has been recorded by any equivalent means). Nevertheless, the court clerk must permit the reproduction of those audiotapes or videotapes at the request of a party to the case or a third party that makes a prima facie showing of interest in these objects. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 非電磁的訴訟記録の閲覧、謄写及び複製の請求は、非電磁的訴訟記録の保存又は裁判所の執務に支障があるときは、することができない。 art-91/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-91/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-91/par-5 A request to inspect, copy, or reproduce a hard-copy case records may not be filed if these actions would be detrimental to the preservation of the hard-copy case records or the performance of the court's duties. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-91/par-1: 次条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第九十一条の二第一項 (Article 91-2, paragraph (1)), art-91-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-91-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-91-2/par-1 - art-91/par-1: この条 → 民事訴訟法 第九十一条 (Article 91), art-91 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-91 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-91 - art-91/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第九十一条第一項 (Article 91, paragraph (1)), art-91/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-91/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-91/par-1 - art-91/par-2: 第二百六十四条 → 民事訴訟法 第二百六十四条 (Article 264), art-264 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-264 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-264 - art-91/par-2: 第二百六十五条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百六十五条第一項 (Article 265, paragraph (1)), art-265/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-265/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-265/par-1 - art-91/par-2: 第二百六十七条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百六十七条第一項 (Article 267, paragraph (1)), art-267/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-267/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-267/par-1 - art-91/par-4: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第九十一条第三項 (Article 91, paragraph (3)), art-91/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-91/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-91/par-3 ## Cited by 10 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第九百六条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-906/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-906/par-5 - 借地借家法 第四十六条第二項（事件の記録の閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/land-and-building-leases-act/art-46/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000090/art-46/par-2 - 労働審判法 第二十六条第二項（事件の記録の閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-tribunal-act/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000045/art-26/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第四十五条第五項第一号（補助参加人の訴訟行為等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-45/par-5/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-45/par-5/item-1 - 民事訴訟法 第九十一条第一項（非電磁的訴訟記録の閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-91/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-91/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 第九十一条第二項（非電磁的訴訟記録の閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-91/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-91/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第九十一条第四項（非電磁的訴訟記録の閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-91/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-91/par-4 - 民事訴訟法 第九十一条の二第四項（電磁的訴訟記録の閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-91-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-91-2/par-4 - 民事訴訟法 第百三十二条の七第一項（事件の記録の閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-132-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-132-7/par-1 - 民事調停法 第十二条の六第二項（記録の閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-mediation-act/art-12-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC1000000222/art-12-6/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