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This study will focus on the use of ｢ni｣ and ｢kara｣ which is incorporated to anoun of agent in Japanese passive voice. Since ｢ni｣ is used in both indirect passive and direct passive, it is most frequentlyused with respect to quantitative aspects and with various transtive verbs. Incontrast, ｢kara｣ is not used in indirect passive. But, ｢kara｣is used with more varioustranstive verbs than ｢ni｣. ｢ni｣has a relatively large number of cases that a subjectand an agent are animate object (have life or movement). So, it has a large numberof cases of Actional Passive, what Hosokawa said. However, since it also has abite large number of the cases of an inanimate object, it is considered that the numberof Statal Passive is not small. ｢kara｣has a large number of cases that subject andan agent are animate object. So, it is likely to be considered that it has characterof Actional Passive, what Hosokawa said( more frequently used than ｢ni｣). From the argument that when a subject is animated object, the feeling of gettingbenefits or harms is especially strong, we can feel the difference with a degree｢kara｣(83%) >｢ni｣(81%). Also, since ｢ni｣has both a directional aspect (~to) and positionalaspect(in~), it is most frequently used with respect to quantitative aspects. However,｢kara｣only has a directional aspect(from~) and from the perspective of an agent,it has a directional aspect which moves away from the agent.