# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第六百九十九条 (Article 699) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-699. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 商法 (Commercial Code), 明治三十二年法律第四十八号 - English title "Commercial Code": 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: 第六百九十九条 (Article 699)（船舶管理人の義務） — address `art-699` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-699 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-699 - 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. --- ### 第六百九十九条（船舶管理人の義務） — (Obligations of Ship's Manager) caption: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "(Liability of Ship's Husband)" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb art-699 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-699 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-699 **第一項** 船舶管理人は、その職務に関する帳簿を備え、船舶の利用に関する一切の事項を記載しなければならない。 art-699/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-699/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-699/par-1 A ship's manager must keep books concerning their duties and enter in them all information concerning the use of the ship. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A ship's husband must keep books concerning their duties and enter in them all information concerning the use of the ship." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb **第二項** 船舶管理人は、一定の期間ごとに、船舶の利用に関する計算を行い、各船舶共有者の承認を求めなければならない。 art-699/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-699/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-699/par-2 The ship's manager must settle the accounts concerning the use of the ship for each specified period and request approval from the part owners of the ship. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The ship's husband must settle the accounts concerning the use of the ship for each specified period and request approval from the part owners of the ship." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 附則第八条第二項（共有に係る船舶についての損益の分配等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4301-29/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4301-29/art-8/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-11-05 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 商法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/132AC0000000048/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Commercial Code (商法), Article 699 — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Commercial Code (商法), Article 699, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Commercial Code (商法), Article 699, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Commercial Code — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05