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Hotel Business Act

旅館業法(りょかんぎょうほう)

Every term this law . Its definitions bind only this law — each entry says where the definition applies and links to the sentence that settles it. 39 terms: 11 with the Ministry of Justice's English, 28 in our translation, marked as such.

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hotel business

旅館業(りょかんぎょう)

The business of operating an inn or hotel (旅館・ホテル営業), a common lodging house (簡易宿所営業) or a boarding house (下宿営業), as Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Hotel Business Act defines it.

旅館・ホテル営業、簡易宿所営業及び下宿営業

Article 2, paragraph (1)
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hotel business

旅館業(りょかんぎょう)

The business of operating an inn or hotel (旅館・ホテル営業), a common lodging house (簡易宿所営業) or a boarding house (下宿営業), as Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Hotel Business Act defines it.

旅館業法第二条第一項に規定する旅館業

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
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hotelier

営業者(えいぎょうしゃ)

A person who runs a hotel business (旅館業) under the licence Article 3, paragraph (1) requires from the prefectural governor (or, in a city with a health center or a special ward, from its mayor).

Article 3-2, paragraph (1)
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to lodge

宿泊(しゅくはく)

Using bedding (寝具) while using a facility of an inn or hotel, a common lodging house or a boarding house business, as Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Hotel Business Act defines it.

寝具を使用して前各項の施設を利用すること

Article 2, paragraph (5)
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to lodge

宿泊(しゅくはく)

Using bedding (寝具) while using a facility of an inn or hotel, a common lodging house or a boarding house business, as Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Hotel Business Act defines it.

旅館業法第二条第五項に規定する宿泊

Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (2)
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new Hotel Business Act

新旅館業法(しんりょかんぎょうほう)

In Article 19 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 105 of 2011, the Hotel Business Act as amended by Article 26 of that Act.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 19, paragraph (1)
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new Hotel Business Act

新旅館業法(しんりょかんぎょうほう)

This Act as amended by Act No. 84 of 2017.

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new Hotel Business Act

新旅館業法(しんりょかんぎょうほう)

This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 52 of 2023.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
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specified infectious disease

特定感染症(とくていかんせんしょう)

The infectious diseases listed in Article 2, paragraph (6): category 1 and category 2 infectious diseases, pandemic influenza or similar infectious diseases and new infectious diseases as defined in the Act on the Prevention of Infectious Diseases and Medical Care for Patients with Infectious Diseases, and those designated infectious diseases under that Act to which a Cabinet Order (政令) applies its rules on recommending hospital admission (Articles 19 and 20) or on asking patients to report on their health or not to go out (Article 44-3, paragraph (2)).

次に掲げる感染症

Article 2, paragraph (6)
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Infectious Diseases Control Act

感染症法(かんせんしょうほう)

Short name for the Act on the Prevention of Infectious Diseases and Medical Care for Patients with Infectious Diseases (Act No. 114 of 1998).

Article 2, paragraph (6), item (i)
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the effective date

施行日(しこうび)

The date the amending law or Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions belong to comes into effect.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)
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the effective date

施行日(しこうび)

The date Act No. 52 of 2023, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.

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the business of operating a boarding house

下宿営業(げしゅくえいぎょう)

The business of running a facility and letting people stay there for a lodging fee charged by the month or by a longer period.

施設を設け、一月以上の期間を単位とする宿泊料を受けて、人を宿泊させる営業

Article 2, paragraph (4)
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the business of operating an inn or hotel

旅館・ホテル営業(りょかん・ほてるえいぎょう)

The business of running a facility and letting people stay there for a lodging fee, other than the business of operating a common lodging house (簡易宿所営業) or a boarding house (下宿営業).

施設を設け、宿泊料を受けて、人を宿泊させる営業で、簡易宿所営業及び下宿営業以外のもの

Article 2, paragraph (2)
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the business of operating a common lodging house

簡易宿所営業(かんいしゅくしょえいぎょう)

The business of running a facility whose structure and equipment are mainly for many people to share the places where they sleep, and letting people stay there for a lodging fee, other than the business of operating a boarding house (下宿営業).

宿泊する場所を多数人で共用する構造及び設備を主とする施設を設け、宿泊料を受けて、人を宿泊させる営業で、下宿営業以外のもの

Article 2, paragraph (3)
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guidelines

指針(ししん)

In Article 5-2, the guidelines the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets on what a hotelier (営業者) needs in order to deal properly with the matters in Articles 4-2 and 5: asking guests for co-operation against the spread of a specified infectious disease (特定感染症), and refusing lodging.

Article 5-2, paragraph (1)
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category 1 infectious disease

一類感染症(いちるいかんせんしょう)

In Article 4-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) and paragraph (2), item (i), a category 1 infectious disease as defined in Article 6, paragraph (2) of the Act on the Prevention of Infectious Diseases and Medical Care for Patients with Infectious Diseases: Ebola haemorrhagic fever, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, smallpox, South American haemorrhagic fever, plague, Marburg disease or Lassa fever.

Article 2, paragraph (6), item (i)
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category 2 infectious disease

二類感染症(にるいかんせんしょう)

In Article 4-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) and paragraph (2), item (i), a category 2 infectious disease as defined in Article 6, paragraph (3) of the Act on the Prevention of Infectious Diseases and Medical Care for Patients with Infectious Diseases: acute poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, diphtheria, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), or avian influenza of a subtype a Cabinet Order (政令) names as highly likely to mutate into the cause of a pandemic influenza.

Article 2, paragraph (6), item (ii)
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pandemic influenza or similar infectious disease

新型インフルエンザ等感染症(しんがたいんふるえんざとうかんせんしょう)

In Article 4-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) and paragraph (2), item (ii), a disease as defined in Article 6, paragraph (7) of the Act on the Prevention of Infectious Diseases and Medical Care for Patients with Infectious Diseases: an influenza or coronavirus disease that has newly become able to pass from person to person, or one that once spread worldwide and that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare names as having returned after a long time, where most people have no immunity to it, so that its rapid spread across the country could seriously affect their lives and health.

Article 2, paragraph (6), item (iii)
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designated infectious disease

指定感染症(していかんせんしょう)

In Article 4-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) and paragraph (2), item (iii), a designated infectious disease as defined in Article 6, paragraph (8) of the Act on the Prevention of Infectious Diseases and Medical Care for Patients with Infectious Diseases — an already known infectious disease, other than those of categories 1 to 3 and pandemic influenza or similar infectious diseases, that a Cabinet Order (政令) names as one whose spread could seriously affect people's lives and health unless that Act's measures are applied to it — but only one to which a Cabinet Order under Article 44-9, paragraph (1) of that Act applies its Article 19 or 20 (recommending that a patient be admitted to hospital) or its Article 44-3, paragraph (2) (asking a patient to report on their health or not to go out).

Article 2, paragraph (6), item (iv)
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new infectious disease

新感染症(しんかんせんしょう)

In Article 4-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) and paragraph (2), item (ii), a new infectious disease as defined in Article 6, paragraph (9) of the Act on the Prevention of Infectious Diseases and Medical Care for Patients with Infectious Diseases: a disease found to pass from person to person whose symptoms or response to treatment clearly differ from those of any known infectious disease, which is severe in those who catch it and whose spread could seriously affect people's lives and health.

Article 2, paragraph (6), item (v)
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certified pre-school/daycare center

幼保連携型認定こども園(ようほれんけいがたにんていこどもえん)

In Article 3, a facility set up under the Act on Advancement of Comprehensive Service Related to Education, Child Care, etc. of Preschool Children, as its Article 2, paragraph (7) defines it, that both educates children aged three and over and gives day care to children who need it, and supports their parents in raising them.

Article 3, paragraph (3), item (i)
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school

学校(がっこう)

In Article 3, paragraph (4), an Article 1 school (第一条学校) — a school under Article 1 of the School Education Act other than a university — or a certified pre-school/daycare center (幼保連携型認定こども園).

第一条学校及び幼保連携型認定こども園

Article 3, paragraph (4)
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administrative appeals, etc.

訴願等(そがんとう)

A petition, request for examination, objection or other administrative appeal filed under the old appeal system.

Supplementary Provisions, paragraph (3)
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current or former member of an organized crime group

暴力団員等(ぼうりょくだんいんとう)

An organized crime group member as defined in Article 2, item (vi) of the Act on Prevention of Unjust Acts by Organized Crime Group Members, or a person who ceased to be one less than five years ago.

Article 3, paragraph (2), item (v)
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Article 1 school

第一条学校(だいいちじょうがっこう)

In Article 3, paragraph (4), a school as defined in Article 1 of the School Education Act other than a university: a kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, compulsory education school, high school, secondary education school, special needs school or college of technology.

Article 3, paragraph (3), item (i)
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child welfare institution

児童福祉施設(じどうふくししせつ)

A child welfare institution as defined in Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Child Welfare Act, such as a nursery center (保育所), an infant home (乳児院) or a children's home (児童養護施設), other than a certified pre-school/daycare center (幼保連携型認定こども園).

Article 3, paragraph (3), item (ii)
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determination, etc.

裁決等(さいけつとう)

A ruling, decision or other disposition on an administrative appeal.

Supplementary Provisions, paragraph (3)
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disposition or other act

処分等の行為(しょぶんとうのこうい)

A permission or other administrative act made under the laws as they stood before the amendment these supplementary provisions deal with.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 13, paragraph (1)
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application or other act

申請等の行為(しんせいとうのこうい)

An application for permission or other act still pending under the pre-amendment laws when the amendment took effect.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 13, paragraph (1)
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affairs of the State, etc.

国等の事務(くにとうのじむ)

In the supplementary provisions of Act No. 87 of 1999, work of the State, of another local government or of another public body that an organ of a local government managed or carried out under an Act (法律) or a Cabinet Order (政令) before that Act comes into effect, which the local government then handles as its own affairs.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 159, paragraph (1)
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disposition or other act

処分等の行為(しょぶんとうのこうい)

A permission or other administrative act made under the laws as they stood before the amendment these supplementary provisions deal with.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 160, paragraph (1)
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application or other act

申請等の行為(しんせいとうのこうい)

An application for permission or other act still pending under the pre-amendment laws when the amendment took effect.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 160, paragraph (1)
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higher administrative agency

上級行政庁(じょうきゅうぎょうせいちょう)

The government agency ranking above the one that made a decision, which hears administrative appeals against that decision.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 161, paragraph (1)
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former Hotel Business Act

旧旅館業法(きゅうりょかんぎょうほう)

This Act as it stood before Act No. 84 of 2017 amended it.

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core city

中核市(ちゅうかくし)

A core city under Article 252-22, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act: a city with a population of 200,000 or more designated by Cabinet Order (政令), which may take over some of the work a prefecture otherwise does.

Article 3, paragraph (4)
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incorporated municipal university

公立大学法人(こうりつだいがくほうじん)

In Article 3, paragraph (4), a local incorporated administrative agency (地方独立行政法人) — a corporation a local government sets up under the Local Independent Administrative Agency Act — that sets up and runs a university, or a university and a college of technology, as Article 68, paragraph (1) and Article 21, item (ii) of that Act provide.

Article 3, paragraph (4)
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designated city

指定都市(していとし)

A designated city under Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act: a city with a population of 500,000 or more designated by Cabinet Order (政令).

Article 3, paragraph (4)
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the agency that made the disposition

処分庁(しょぶんちょう)

The administrative agency that issued the decision being appealed.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 161, paragraph (1)
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