# 国家賠償法 / State Redress Act — 第六条 (Article 6) - Law: 国家賠償法 (State Redress Act), 昭和二十二年法律第百二十五号 - English title "State Redress 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: 第六条 (Article 6) — address `art-6` - Text in force since: 1947-10-27 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/state-redress-act/art-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000125/art-6 - 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. --- ### 第六条 art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/state-redress-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000125/art-6 **第一項** この法律は、外国人が被害者である場合には、相互の保証があるときに限り、これを適用する。 art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/state-redress-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000125/art-6/par-1 In cases where the victim is a foreign national, this Act applies only when a mutual guarantee exists. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 国家賠償法 — the text in force from 1947-10-27 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000125/19471027_000000000000000), retrieved 2026-10-09 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — State Redress Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3785/tb), retrieved 2026-10-09 - This site's parser, version 163 — 国家賠償法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09