[Contract/Extinctive Prescription] Supreme Court, April 24, 1998, 1995 (O) 2472

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[Contract/Extinctive Prescription] Supreme Court, April 24, 1998, 1995 (O) 2472

For a contractual obligation, the prescription period for a damages claim arising from impossibility of performance attributable to the obligor begins to run when performance of the original obligation could have been demanded.

⇒ <<Take care>> Not from the time performance becomes impossible!!

https://www.courts.go.jp/app/files/hanrei_jp/776/062776_hanrei.pdf

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