# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百九十条 (Article 790) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-790. 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: 第七百九十条 (Article 790)（準衝突） — address `art-790` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-790 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-790 - 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. --- ### 第七百九十条（準衝突） — (Constructive Collision) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-790 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-790 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-790 **第一項** 前二条の規定は、船舶がその航行若しくは船舶の取扱いに関する行為又は船舶に関する法令に違反する行為により他の船舶に著しく接近し、当該他の船舶又は当該他の船舶内にある人若しくは物に損害を加えた事故について準用する。 art-790/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-790/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-790/par-1 The provisions of the preceding two Articles apply mutatis mutandis to an accident in which a ship has come extremely close to another ship due to an act relating to the former ship's navigation or handling or an act in violation of laws and regulations concerning ships, and has damaged the latter ship or people or objects on the latter ship. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The provisions of the preceding two Articles apply mutatis mutandis to an accident in which a ship has come extremely close to another ship due to an act relating to the former ship's navigation or handling, and has damaged the latter ship or people or objects on the latter ship." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb --- ## Cites - art-790/par-1: 前二条 → 商法 第七百八十八条 (Article 788), art-788 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-788 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-788 - art-790/par-1: 前二条 → 商法 第七百八十九条 (Article 789), art-789 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-789 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-789 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第七百九十一条第一項（非航海船との衝突等への準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-791/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-791/par-1 - 商法 附則第十二条第二項（船舶の衝突に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4301-29/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4301-29/art-12/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 790, 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 — 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