Japanese law,
easy to use — for you
and your agent.
Read a Japanese statute with its English translation side by side, every legal term explained where it appears, and a permanent link to every paragraph — so you, or the AI agent working for you, can find the exact rule and show where it comes from.
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- paragraphs with English beside them
For agents
Your agent answers from the law, not from memory.
A connected agent can search every law here and follow the references between them. Each answer comes with a precise link to the provision it rests on, so there is nothing to hallucinate — and you always have a clear way to check, down to the paragraph, where the advice your agent gives you comes from.
japanlaw.org/md/en/labor-standards-act/art-36
…the employer may extend the working hours or have a worker work on a day off, in accordance with the provisions of that agreement.
Labor Standards Act, Article 36 · Ministry of Justice translation
Links
A link to the exact paragraph.
Every article, paragraph and item has a permanent link that keeps working when amendments insert, renumber or repeal the provisions around it. Like a bookmark in the right page — and it makes it easy for your agent to hand you a direct link to the parts of the law that actually matter for your work.
(1) If the employer has concluded a written agreement with a labor union … the employer may extend the working hours or have a worker work on a day off, in accordance with the provisions of that agreement.
① 使用者は、当該事業場に、労働者の過半数で組織する労働組合がある場合においてはその労働組合…と書面による協定をし…その協定で定めるところによつて労働時間を延長し、又は休日に労働させることができる。
(2) The following particulars are to be provided for in the agreement referred to in the preceding paragraph:
② 前項の協定においては、次に掲げる事項を定めるものとする。
(i) the scope of workers whose working hours may be extended or who may be made to work on days off …
一 この条の規定により労働時間を延長し、又は休日に労働させることができることとされる労働者の範囲
Two languages
Japanese and English, side by side.
The Japanese is kept exactly as published. Beside every paragraph is its English: the Ministry of Justice's translation where it matches the law in force today, and a careful machine translation where it does not — each clearly marked, so nothing is left blank and nothing machine-made passes as official.
- Japanese text: e-Gov (Digital Agency)
- English title: Ministry of Justice translation
- This paragraph's English: Ministry of Justice translation
- This paragraph's English: machine translation
Sources
Every line says where it came from.
Not a note at the bottom of the page — a mark beside the date, the number and the paragraph, each leading back to the original it came from: e-Gov's text, the Ministry of Justice's translation, or our machine translation. A record without a source never reaches the site.
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