Date of Judgment: 2001.06.08
Issuing Authority: Supreme Court
Level of the Issuing Authority: Final
Instance
Type of Procedure: Judicial (Civil)
Subject Matter: Other
Summary of the judgment (decision):
1. In a suit for damages
based on tort filed against a defendant who has no address or the like in
Japan, it suffices, in principle, to prove an objective fact that acts committed
by the defendant in Japan caused damage to the plaintiff ’s legal interest for
the international jurisdiction of Japanese courts to be affirmed based on the provisions
of the Code of Civil Procedure on the venue for the place of tort.
2. With respect to a
claim between the parties between which the international jurisdiction of
Japanese courts is affirmed over another claim based on a certain ground for
jurisdiction, a close relationship must be found between the two claims in order
for the international jurisdiction of Japanese courts to be affirmed over the first-mentioned
claim based on the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure on the venue for
joint claims.
(This translation is provisional and
subject to revision.)