Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act
出入国管理及び難民認定法
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. 237 terms: 36 with the Ministry of Justice's English, 201 in our translation, marked as such.
The immigration official provided for in Article 61-3, who examines people landing in Japan and cases for deportation, among other duties.
第六十一条の三に定める入国審査官
The immigration official provided for in Article 61-3-2, who investigates violations and detains, escorts and removes people, among other duties.
第六十一条の三の二に定める入国警備官
A senior immigration inspector designated by the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency.
上級の入国審査官で出入国在留管理庁長官が指定するもの
被収容者
A person held in an immigration detention center or other immigration detention facility.
入国者収容所等に収容されている者
The director of an immigration detention center or the director of a regional immigration services bureau.
An immigration detention center, or a detention facility set up at a regional immigration services bureau under Article 55-3(1).
入国者収容所又は第五十五条の三第一項の規定により設けられる収容場
容疑者
A foreign national whom an immigration control officer believes falls under one of the grounds for deportation in Article 24, and who may therefore be investigated.
A foreign national residing in Japan with a status of residence who is issued a residence card: everyone except those granted a stay of three months or less, Temporary Visitors, holders of Diplomat or Official status, and others specified by Ministry of Justice Order.
在留期間
How long a foreign national may stay in Japan under a status of residence; the lengths are set by Ministry of Justice Order and, for most statuses, cannot exceed five years.
旅券
A passport, refugee travel document or other document in place of a passport (including a travel certificate from a Japanese consular officer) issued by the Japanese government, a foreign government Japan recognizes or a competent international organization, or an equivalent document from a competent authority of a region designated by Cabinet Order.
次に掲げる文書
The Minister of Justice's recognition, on the application of a foreign national in Japan, that the person is a refugee.
The Minister of Justice's recognition, on the application of a foreign national in Japan, that the person is eligible for complementary protection.
A seaport or airport, designated by Ministry of Justice Order, through which foreign nationals must enter and leave Japan.
外国人が出入国すべき港又は飛行場で法務省令で定めるもの
A member of the crew of a ship or aircraft.
船舶又は航空機（以下「船舶等」という。）の乗組員
A foreign national placed under supervision measures, living outside detention under the oversight of a supervisor (監理人).
監理措置に付される者
This Act as amended by Article 2 of the 2023 amending law (Act No. 56 of 2023).
運送業者
A business that carries people or goods by ship or aircraft between Japan and places outside Japan.
本邦と本邦外の地域との間において船舶等により人又は物を運送する事業を営む者
The date Act No. 79 of 2009, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
A record made in electronic, magnetic or any other form people cannot perceive directly, for use in computer processing.
電磁的方式（電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によつては認識することができない方式をいう。以下同じ。）で作られる記録であつて、電子計算機による情報処理の用に供されるもの
An immigration inspector designated by the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency to hold oral hearings.
口頭審理を行わせるため出入国在留管理庁長官が指定する入国審査官
特定在留カード
A residence card that also works as an Individual Number Card (the My Number card), with that function added under the procedure in Article 18-5 of the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures (Act No. 27 of 2013).
この条の規定及び行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律（平成二十五年法律第二十七号。以下この条及び第十九条の十五の四において「番号利用法」という。）第十八条の五の規定に定める手続により個人番号カード（番号利用法第二条第七項に規定する個人番号カードをいう。第十九条の十五の四において同じ。）としての機能を付加するための措置が講じられた在留カード
A foreign national residing in Japan with a status of residence who is issued a residence card: everyone except those granted a stay of three months or less, Temporary Visitors, holders of Diplomat or Official status, and others specified by Ministry of Justice Order.
入管法第十九条の三に規定する中長期在留者
在留カード
The residence card that the Immigration Services Agency issues to a mid- to long-term resident under Article 19-3 of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act.
入管法第十九条の三に規定する在留カード
A supervising immigration inspector's decision to place a foreign national under supervision measures instead of detention, or to release a detained person and place them under those measures.
第一項又は前項の決定
Short name for the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act, used in the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 79 of 2009, which amended it.
The date Act No. 56 of 2023, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
Electronic, magnetic or any other form that people cannot perceive directly with their senses.
電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によつては認識することができない方式
Short name for the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act, used in the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 56 of 2023, which amended it.
A foreign national placed under supervision measures, living outside detention under the oversight of a supervisor (監理人).
監理措置に付される者
This Act as it stood before Article 2 of the 2023 amending law (Act No. 56 of 2023) amended it.
An investigation by an immigration control officer into a possible breach of the rules on foreign nationals' entry, landing or residence.
入国警備官が行う外国人の入国、上陸又は在留に関する違反事件の調査
Fingerprints, a photograph or other information that can identify an individual, as specified by Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令).
指紋、写真その他の個人を識別することができる情報として法務省令で定めるもの
The information recorded electronically on a residence card under Article 19-4(5).
A supervising immigration inspector's decision to place a foreign national under supervision measures instead of detention, or to release a detained person and place them under those measures.
第一項又は前項の決定
The Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 79 of 2009, the amending law these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to.
A foreign resident's main place of residence in Japan.
本邦における主たる住居の所在地
記録命令付差押え
A seizure in which an immigration control officer (入国警備官) investigating a violation orders a person who keeps electronic or magnetic records (電磁的記録), or anyone else with authority to use them, to record the records needed onto a recording medium or print them out, and then seizes that medium.
電磁的記録を保管する者その他電磁的記録を利用する権限を有する者に命じて必要な電磁的記録を記録媒体に記録させ、又は印刷させた上、当該記録媒体を差し押さえること
A detainee's written request to the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency to review certain measures taken by the director of the detention facility, such as refusing medical treatment or stopping letters.
A seafarer's identity book issued by a competent authority, or a similar document for crew members.
権限のある機関の発行した船員手帳その他乗員に係るこれに準ずる文書
難民
A refugee to whom the Refugee Convention applies under Article 1 of the Convention or Article 1 of the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees.
難民の地位に関する条約（以下「難民条約」という。）第一条の規定又は難民の地位に関する議定書第一条の規定により難民条約の適用を受ける難民
在留資格認定証明書
A certificate the Minister of Justice issues in advance, on application, stating that a foreign national planning to land in Japan meets the landing condition in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (ii), on the activities the person plans in Japan; not issued to those coming to engage in Temporary Visitor (短期滞在) activities.
支援業務
Carrying out, under contract, the whole of a support plan for a Specified Skilled Worker (i).
A person or organization registered with the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency to carry out, under contract, support plans for Specified Skilled Workers.
An alien registration certificate (外国人登録証明書) issued under the former Alien Registration Act (旧外国人登録法), which counts as a residence card (在留カード) for the provisions listed when held by a mid- to long-term resident (中長期在留者).
The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.
A contract of employment that a foreign national seeking to do the work of the specified skilled worker (特定技能) status of residence, item (i) or (ii), makes with a public or private organization in Japan, and which must meet criteria set by a Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令).
The Japanese public or private organization that is the other party to a Specified Skilled Worker's employment contract.
A foreign national in Japan who holds no status of residence (在留資格): anyone other than a person staying under a status in Appended Table I or II, a person whose landing permission for temporary refuge has not yet run out, or a special permanent resident.
別表第一又は別表第二の上欄の在留資格をもつて本邦に在留する者、一時庇護のための上陸の許可を受けた者で当該許可書に記載された期間を経過していないもの及び特別永住者以外の者
A foreign resident's main place of residence in Japan.
本邦における主たる住居の所在地
人身取引等
Abducting, kidnapping, buying or selling a person, or handing over, receiving, transporting or hiding such a person, for profit, for indecent purposes or to harm them; and placing a person under 18 under one's control, or handing one over to someone else's, for those purposes.
次に掲げる行為
The policy the Minister of Justice sets jointly with the responsible ministers for running the Specified Skilled Worker status of residence in each industrial field short of workers.
Letting a foreign national in deportation proceedings, or under a deportation order, live outside detention under the oversight of a supervisor (監理人) chosen by the supervising immigration inspector.
次条に規定する監理人による監理に付する措置
This Act as amended by Act No. 79 of 1989.
不法就労活動
Paid work that a foreign national is not allowed to do: activities outside what their status of residence (在留資格) permits, or work by a person staying or having entered unlawfully (such as someone who overstayed), unless done with permission under Article 44-5.
第十九条第一項若しくは第六十一条の二の七第一項の規定に違反する活動又は第七十条第一項第一号、第二号、第三号から第三号の三まで、第五号、第七号から第七号の三まで若しくは第八号の二から第八号の四までに掲げる者が行う活動（第四十四条の五第一項の規定による許可を受けて行う活動を除く。）であつて報酬その他の収入を伴うもの
A court order under Article 342-2, 345-2 or 494-3 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Act No. 131 of 1948) that a person involved in criminal proceedings may not leave Japan without the court's permission.
刑事訴訟法（昭和二十三年法律第百三十一号）第三百四十二条の二（同法第四百四条（同法第四百十四条において準用する場合を含む。以下この号において同じ。）において準用する場合を含む。以下この号において同じ。）の規定又は同法第三百四十五条の二（同法第四百四条において準用する場合を含む。以下この号において同じ。）若しくは第四百九十四条の三の規定による決定により、裁判所の許可を受けなければ本邦から出国してはならないとされていること
Permission the Minister of Justice may grant under Article 50(1) for a foreign national who would otherwise be deported to stay in Japan.
Letting a foreign national in deportation proceedings, or under a deportation order, live outside detention under the oversight of a supervisor (監理人) chosen by the supervising immigration inspector.
次条に規定する監理人による監理に付する措置
委員会
The Visiting Committee for Immigration Detention Centers, etc., set up at immigration offices designated by Ministry of Justice Order.
Money and belongings that a detainee left behind at an immigration detention facility.
入国者収容所等に遺留した金品
発受差止信書等
Letters a detainee was stopped from sending or receiving, parts cut from them, or copies, which the facility keeps and must hand over when the detainee leaves.
The Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act as amended by the amending law these supplementary provisions belong to.
This Act as it stood before Article 1 of the 2023 amending law (Act No. 56 of 2023) amended it.
A person who is not a refugee but meets every requirement for refugee status under the Refugee Convention except that the persecution they fear is not for one of the reasons in Article 1A(2) of the Convention.
難民以外の者であつて、難民条約の適用を受ける難民の要件のうち迫害を受けるおそれがある理由が難民条約第一条Ａ（２）に規定する理由であること以外の要件を満たすもの
難民調査官
An immigration inspector designated by the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency to hear opinions and investigate facts in refugee and complementary-protection proceedings.
第六十一条の三第二項第二号（第六十一条の二の十一第二項において準用する第二十二条の四第二項に係る部分に限る。）及び第三号（第六十一条の二の十七第一項及び第二項に係る部分に限る。）に掲げる事務を行わせるため出入国在留管理庁長官が指定する入国審査官
An immigration detention center established under Article 30 of the Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Justice.
法務省設置法（平成十一年法律第九十三号）第三十条に定める入国者収容所
基本方針
The government's basic policy on running the Specified Skilled Worker status of residence.
A foreign national who has overstayed or falls under certain other grounds for deportation, but who came forward intending to leave promptly and meets the other conditions of Article 24-3, and is therefore ordered to depart instead of being deported.
許可状
A warrant issued in advance by a judge that lets an immigration control officer inspect premises, search or seize things in a violation investigation.
The Alien Registration Act (外国人登録法) as it stood before Article 4 of the 2009 amending law (Act No. 79 of 2009) abolished it.
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 74 of 2014.
The date Act No. 102 of 2018, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
適合一号特定技能外国人支援計画
A plan for supporting a foreign national employed under the specified skilled worker (特定技能) status of residence (在留資格), item (i), that meets the requirements of Article 2-5, paragraphs (6) and (7), which the employing organization in Japan must carry out properly.
A special permanent resident: a person who lost Japanese nationality under the Treaty of Peace with Japan, or a descendant of such a person, who may live permanently in Japan under the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan (特例法).
A passenger ship sailing between Japan and places abroad that the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency designates, taking into account how reliably it checks its passengers' identities.
本邦と本邦外の地域との間の航路に就航する旅客船であつて、乗客の本人確認の措置が的確に行われていることその他の事情を勘案して出入国在留管理庁長官が指定するもの
Short name, in Article 19-15-2 and Article 19-15-4, for the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures (Act No. 27 of 2013).
A foreign national living in Japan with the Specified Skilled Worker status of residence (在留資格).
特定技能の在留資格をもつて本邦に在留する外国人
Conditions such as limits on where a person lives and moves and a duty to appear when summoned, imposed on a foreign national placed under a supervisor instead of being detained.
A physician or dentist employed at an immigration detention center or a Regional Immigration Services Bureau.
入国者収容所又は地方出入国在留管理局の職員である医師又は歯科医師
差入人
A person who brought or sent cash or goods for a detainee in an immigration detention facility.
The Act on Special Districts for Structural Reform (Act No. 189 of 2002) as it stood before Article 7 of the supplementary provisions of the 2006 amending law (Act No. 43 of 2006) amended it.
A Japanese ambassador, minister or consular officer stationed abroad.
外国に駐在する日本国の大使、公使又は領事官
一号特定技能外国人支援計画
The plan that a public or private organization in Japan seeking to employ a foreign national under the specified skilled worker (特定技能) status of residence (在留資格), item (i), must draw up, as a Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令) provides, for the support with working life, daily life and social life it will give that person so that they can carry on that work steadily and smoothly.
Permission to land in Japan in any of its forms given by an immigration inspector: the landing-permission seal in a passport, the electronic record that replaces it under Article 9(4), or a grant of landing permission.
旧カード
The residence card (在留カード) a person was holding when they applied under Article 19-11, paragraph (1) to renew its validity period, from whose expiry date the validity period of the new card is counted.
Belongings a person held in immigration detention has been handed to keep and use under Article 55-28, together with letters they have received and kept.
被収容者が前条第一項の規定により引渡しを受けて保管する物品（第五項の規定により引渡しを受けて保管する物品を含む。）及び被収容者が受けた信書でその保管するもの
A protection room (保護室), or a single room meeting standards the Minister of Justice sets, in which an immigration control officer (入国警備官) may hold a detainee who is at risk of harming themselves, or where it is especially needed to keep order in the facility, for periods of up to 24 hours that can be renewed.
The length of time the Minister of Justice sets when permitting a refugee or complementary-protection applicant who has no status of residence to stay in Japan provisionally.
The plan the Minister of Justice draws up as the basis of policy on managing foreign nationals' entry into and residence in Japan.
A foreign national, not held in custody under the Code of Criminal Procedure, whose deportation order is on hold while they are barred from leaving Japan.
The Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act as it stood before Act No. 79 of 1989 amended it.
The date the provisions listed in Article 1, item (iii) of the supplementary provisions of the 2009 amending law (Act No. 79 of 2009) came into force.
This Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 74 of 2014 amended it.
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 102 of 2018.
Short name for the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act, used in the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 32 of 2026, which amended it.
一号特定技能外国人支援
Support with working life, daily life and social life that a public or private organization in Japan gives a foreign national it employs under the specified skilled worker (特定技能) status of residence (在留資格), item (i), so that the person can carry on that work steadily and smoothly.
Conditions such as limits on where a person lives and moves and a duty to appear when summoned, imposed on a foreign national placed under a supervisor instead of being detained.
A foreign national who falls under any of the grounds for deportation in Article 24 and does not qualify for a departure order instead.
第二十四条各号のいずれかに該当し、かつ、出国命令対象者に該当しない外国人
書籍等
Books, magazines, newspapers and other written or printed material, not including letters.
書籍、雑誌、新聞紙その他の文書図画（信書を除く。）