# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第三条の五 (Article 3-5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-3-5. 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: 人事訴訟法 (Personal Status Litigation Act), 平成十五年法律第百九号 - English title "Personal Status Litigation Act": 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: 第三条の五 (Article 3-5)（特別の事情による訴えの却下） — address `art-3-5` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-3-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-3-5 - 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. --- ### 第三条の五（特別の事情による訴えの却下） — (Dismissal Without Prejudice Due to Special Circumstances) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-3-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-3-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-3-5 **第一項** 裁判所は、訴えについて日本の裁判所が管轄権を有することとなる場合においても、事案の性質、応訴による被告の負担の程度、証拠の所在地、当該訴えに係る身分関係の当事者間の成年に達しない子の利益その他の事情を考慮して、日本の裁判所が審理及び裁判をすることが当事者間の衡平を害し、又は適正かつ迅速な審理の実現を妨げることとなる特別の事情があると認めるときは、その訴えの全部又は一部を却下することができる。 art-3-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-3-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-3-5/par-1 Even when the Japanese courts have jurisdiction over an action, the court may deny all or part of the action if it finds there are special circumstances because of which, if the Japanese courts were to conduct a trial and reach a judicial decision, it would be inequitable to either party or prevent a fair and speedy trial, in consideration of circumstances such as the nature of the case, the degree of burden that the defendant would have to bear in responding to the action, the location of evidence, or the interests of any children of the parties to the familial relationship that the action concerns who have not yet attained the age of majority. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Even when the Japanese courts have jurisdiction over an action, the court may deny all or part of the action if it finds there are special circumstances because of which, if the Japanese courts were to have conduct a trial and reach a judicial decision, it would be inequitable to either party or prevent a fair and speedy trial, in consideration of circumstances such as the nature of the case, the degree of burden that the defendant would have to bear in responding to the action, the location of evidence, or the interests of any children of the parties to the familial relationship that the action concerns who have not yet attained the age of majority." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 附則第二条第一項（人事訴訟法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4301-20/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4301-20/art-2/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Personal Status Litigation Act, written 2026-11-03 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 人事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000109/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Personal Status Litigation Act (人事訴訟法), Article 3-5, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Personal Status Litigation Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 220 — 人事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02