# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百七十条 (Article 770) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-770. 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: 第七百七十条 (Article 770) — address `art-770` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-770 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-770 - 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. --- ### 第七百七十条 art-770 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-770 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-770 **第一項** 運送人又は船長は、荷送人又は傭船者の請求により、運送品の船積み後遅滞なく、船積みがあった旨を記載した海上運送状を交付しなければならない。運送品の船積み前においても、その受取後は、荷送人又は傭船者の請求により、受取があった旨を記載した海上運送状を交付しなければならない。 art-770/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-770/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-770/par-1 At the request of a shipper or charterer, a carrier or master, without delay after the loading of goods, must issue one or more copies of a sea waybill stating that goods have been loaded. Even before the loading of goods, at the request of a shipper or charterer, the carrier or master, after receiving the goods, must issue one or more copies of a sea waybill stating that the goods have been received. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 海上運送状には、次に掲げる事項を記載しなければならない。 art-770/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-770/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-770/par-2 A sea waybill must contain the following information: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第七百五十八条第一項各号（第十一号を除く。）に掲げる事項（運送品の受取があった旨を記載した海上運送状にあっては、同項第七号及び第八号に掲げる事項を除く。） art-770/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-770/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-770/par-2/item-1 the information set forth in the items of Article 758, paragraph (1) (excluding item (xi)) (excluding, in the case of a sea waybill stating that goods have been received, the information set forth in items (vii) and (viii) of that paragraph); and Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "the information set forth in the items of Article 758, paragraph (1) (excluding, in the case of a sea waybill stating that goods have been received, the information set forth in items (vii) and (viii) of that paragraph); and" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb **二** 数通の海上運送状を作成したときは、その数 art-770/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-770/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-770/par-2/item-2 the number of copies of the sea waybill there are, if more than one has been prepared. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の運送人又は船長は、海上運送状の交付に代えて、法務省令で定めるところにより、荷送人又は傭船者の承諾を得て、海上運送状に記載すべき事項を電磁的方法により提供することができる。この場合において、当該運送人又は船長は、海上運送状を交付したものとみなす。 art-770/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-770/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-770/par-3 In lieu of issuing a sea waybill, a carrier or master as referred to in paragraph (1) may provide the shipper or charterer with the information that is required to be contained in a sea waybill by electronic or magnetic means, with the shipper's or charterer's consent and pursuant to the provisions of Ministry of Justice Order. In such a case, the carrier or master is deemed to have issued a sea waybill. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 前三項の規定は、運送品について現に船荷証券が交付されているときは、適用しない。 art-770/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-770/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-770/par-4 The provisions of the preceding three paragraphs do not apply if a bill of lading has been issued for the goods. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-770/par-2/item-1: 第七百五十八条第一項 → 商法 第七百五十八条第一項 (Article 758, paragraph (1)), art-758/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-758/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-758/par-1 - art-770/par-2/item-1: 第十一号 → 商法 第七百五十八条第一項第十一号 (Article 758, paragraph (1), item (xi)), art-758/par-1/item-11 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-758/par-1/item-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-758/par-1/item-11 - art-770/par-2/item-1: 同項第七号 → 商法 第七百五十八条第一項第七号 (Article 758, paragraph (1), item (vii)), art-758/par-1/item-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-758/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-758/par-1/item-7 - art-770/par-2/item-1: 第八号 → 商法 第七百五十八条第一項第八号 (Article 758, paragraph (1), item (viii)), art-758/par-1/item-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-758/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-758/par-1/item-8 - art-770/par-3: 第一項 → 商法 第七百七十条第一項 (Article 770, paragraph (1)), art-770/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-770/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-770/par-1 - art-770/par-4: 前三項 → 商法 第七百七十条第一項 (Article 770, paragraph (1)), art-770/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-770/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-770/par-1 - art-770/par-4: 前三項 → 商法 第七百七十条第二項 (Article 770, paragraph (2)), art-770/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-770/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-770/par-2 - art-770/par-4: 前三項 → 商法 第七百七十条第三項 (Article 770, paragraph (3)), art-770/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-770/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-770/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第七百七十条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-770/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-770/par-3 - 商法 第七百七十条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-770/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-770/par-4 --- ## 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 770, paragraph (2), item (i) — 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