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Chapter II Entry and Landing

第二章 入国及び上陸

Section 1 Entry of a Foreign National

第一節 外国人の入国

Article 3Entry of a Foreign National

第三条(外国人の入国)

A foreign national who falls under any of the following items must not enter Japan:

次の各号のいずれかに該当する外国人は、本邦に入つてはならない。

a person who does not possess a valid passport (excluding a crew member who possess a valid crew member's pocket-ledger); or

有効な旅券を所持しない者(有効な乗員手帳を所持する乗員を除く。)

a person who seeks to land in Japan without receiving a seal of verification for landing or undergoing the recording of the prescribed data pursuant to the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (4), or without obtaining authorized permission for landing (hereinafter referred to as "permission for landing, etc."), from an immigration inspector (except for those set forth in the preceding item).

入国審査官から上陸許可の証印若しくは第九条第四項の規定による記録又は上陸の許可(以下「上陸の許可等」という。)を受けないで本邦に上陸する目的を有する者(前号に掲げる者を除く。)

A foreign national who becomes a crew member in Japan is deemed to be a crew member with regard to the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

本邦において乗員となる外国人は、前項の規定の適用については、乗員とみなす。

Section 2 Landing of a Foreign National

第二節 外国人の上陸

Article 4

第四条

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Article 5Denial of Landing

第五条(上陸の拒否)

A foreign national who falls under any of the following items is denied permission to land in Japan:

次の各号のいずれかに該当する外国人は、本邦に上陸することができない。

a patient with category 1 infectious diseases, category 2 infectious diseases, pandemic influenza or designated infectious diseases provided for by the Act on Prevention of Infectious Diseases and Medical Care for Patients with Infectious Diseases (Act No. 114 of 1998) (limited to infectious diseases to which the provisions of Article 19 or 20 of the same Act applies mutatis mutandis, pursuant to the provisions of a Cabinet Order pursuant to the provisions of Article 44-9 of the same Act), including a person who is deemed to be a patient of category 1 infectious diseases or category 2 infectious disease, pandemic influenza, or designated infectious diseases pursuant to the provisions of Article 8 of the same Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 44-9 of the same Act), or any person who has symptoms of a new infectious disease;

感染症の予防及び感染症の患者に対する医療に関する法律(平成十年法律第百十四号)に定める一類感染症、二類感染症、新型インフルエンザ等感染症若しくは指定感染症(同法第四十四条の九の規定に基づき、政令で定めるところにより、同法第十九条又は第二十条の規定を準用するものに限る。)の患者(同法第八条同法第四十四条の九において準用する場合を含む。)の規定により一類感染症、二類感染症、新型インフルエンザ等感染症又は指定感染症の患者とみなされる者を含む。)又は新感染症の所見がある者

a person who, due to a mental disability, has a habitual condition of being unable to understand right from wrong or whose capacity for understanding is significantly lacking, and is not accompanied by those persons provided for by Ministry of Justice Order for that person's assistance in engaging in activities in Japan;

精神上の障害により事理を弁識する能力を欠く常況にある者又はその能力が著しく不十分な者で、本邦におけるその活動又は行動を補助する者として法務省令で定めるものが随伴しないもの

a person who is indigent or without a fixed dwelling place and is likely to become a burden on the Japanese Government or a local public entity because of an inability to make a living;

貧困者、放浪者等で生活上国又は地方公共団体の負担となるおそれのある者

a person who has been convicted of a violation of any law or regulation of Japan or of any other country, and has been sentenced to imprisonment for 1 year or more, or to an equivalent penalty; provided, however, that this does not apply to those convicted of a political offense;

日本国又は日本国以外の国の法令に違反して、一年以上の拘禁刑又はこれに相当する刑に処せられたことのある者。ただし、政治犯罪により刑に処せられた者は、この限りでない。

a person who has been convicted of a violation of any law or regulation of Japan or of any other country relating to the control of narcotics, marijuana, opium, stimulant drugs or psychotropic drugs, and has been sentenced to a punishment;

麻薬、大麻、あへん、覚醒剤又は向精神薬の取締りに関する日本国又は日本国以外の国の法令に違反して刑に処せられたことのある者

a person who has been convicted of a violation of any law or regulation of Japan or of any other country or has been deported from Japan pursuant to the provisions of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act or deported from any other country pursuant to the provisions of any law or regulation of that country for killing, injuring, assaulting or threatening a person, or damaging a building or other objects in relation to the process or results of an international competition or a competition of an equivalent scale or an international conference (hereinafter referred to as "international competition, etc.") or with the intent of preventing the smooth operation thereof, and is likely to kill, injure, assault or threaten a person, or damage a building or other objects in relation to the process or results of an international competition, etc. held in Japan or with the intent of preventing the smooth implementation thereof, at the venue of the international competition, etc. or within the area of the municipality where the venue is located (including special wards, and wards or administratively consolidated wards in designated cities prescribed in Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947)) or to neighboring places provided for use to unspecified or a large number of persons;

国際的規模若しくはこれに準ずる規模で開催される競技会若しくは国際的規模で開催される会議(以下「国際競技会等」という。)の経過若しくは結果に関連して、又はその円滑な実施を妨げる目的をもつて、人を殺傷し、人に暴行を加え、人を脅迫し、又は建造物その他の物を損壊したことにより、日本国若しくは日本国以外の国の法令に違反して刑に処せられ、又は出入国管理及び難民認定法の規定により本邦からの退去を強制され、若しくは日本国以外の国の法令の規定によりその国から退去させられた者であつて、本邦において行われる国際競技会等の経過若しくは結果に関連して、又はその円滑な実施を妨げる目的をもつて、当該国際競技会等の開催場所又はその所在する市町村(特別区を含むものとし、地方自治法(昭和二十二年法律第六十七号)第二百五十二条の十九第一項の指定都市にあつては、区又は総合区)の区域内若しくはその近傍の不特定若しくは多数の者の用に供される場所において、人を殺傷し、人に暴行を加え、人を脅迫し、又は建造物その他の物を損壊するおそれのあるもの

a person who illegally possesses any narcotics or psychotropic substances as prescribed in the Narcotics and Psychotropic Control Act (Act No. 14 of 1953), opium poppy, opium or poppy as prescribed in the Opium Control Act (Act No. 71 of 1954), stimulant drugs or stimulants' raw materials as prescribed in the Stimulants Control Act (Act No. 252 of 1951), or any apparatus used to smoke opium;

麻薬及び向精神薬取締法(昭和二十八年法律第十四号)に定める麻薬若しくは向精神薬、あへん法(昭和二十九年法律第七十一号)に定めるけし、あへん若しくはけしがら、覚醒剤取締法(昭和二十六年法律第二百五十二号)に定める覚醒剤若しくは覚醒剤原料又はあへん煙を吸食する器具を不法に所持する者

a person who has engaged in prostitution, or intermediation or solicitation of prostitution, provision of a place for prostitution, or any other business directly connected to prostitution (except for those who have engaged in these businesses under the control of another person due to human trafficking);

売春又はその周旋、勧誘、その場所の提供その他売春に直接に関係がある業務に従事したことのある者(人身取引等により他人の支配下に置かれていた者が当該業務に従事した場合を除く。)

a person who has committed human trafficking or incited or aided another person to commit human trafficking;

人身取引等を行い、唆し、又はこれを助けた者

a person who illegally possesses firearms, crossbows, swords or other weapons as prescribed in the Act for Controlling the Possession of Firearms or Swords and Other Weapons (Act No. 6 of 1958) or explosives as provided for by the Explosives Control Act (Act No. 149 of 1950);

銃砲刀剣類所持等取締法(昭和三十三年法律第六号)に定める銃砲、クロスボウ若しくは刀剣類又は火薬類取締法(昭和二十五年法律第百四十九号)に定める火薬類を不法に所持する者

a person who falls under any of sub-items (a) through (f) for whom the period set forth in the relevant provisions has not yet elapsed:

次のイからヘまでに掲げる者で、それぞれ当該イからヘまでに定める期間を経過していないもの

a person who has been denied landing for any of the reasons prescribed in the provisions of either item (vi) or the preceding item:1 year from the date of denial.

第六号又は前号の規定に該当して上陸を拒否された者 拒否された日から一年

a person who has been deported from Japan for any of the reasons set forth in the items under Article 24 (excluding item (iv), sub-items (l) through (o), and item (iv)-3), who has received the decision set forth in Article 52, paragraph (5), and who has departed from Japan based on the permission under the provisions of paragraph (4) of the same Article by the date provided for by Ministry of Justice Order as prescribed in paragraph (5) of the same Article (excluding a person who seeks to engage in the activities set forth in the right-hand column corresponding to "Temporary Visitor" specified in Appended Table I (3)):1 year from the date of deportation;

第二十四条各号(第四号オからヨまで及び第四号の三を除く。)のいずれかに該当して本邦からの退去を強制された者で、第五十二条第五項の決定を受け、同項に規定する法務省令で定める日までに同条第四項の規定による許可に基づき退去したもの(別表第一の三の表の短期滞在の項の下欄に掲げる活動を行おうとする者を除く。) 退去の日から一年

a person who has been deported from Japan for any of the reasons set forth in the items under Article 24 (excluding item (iv), sub-items (l) through (o), and item (iv)-3) and who has not previously been deported from Japan or has not departed from Japan under a departure order pursuant to the provisions of Article 55-85, paragraph (1), before the aforesaid date of deportation (excluding a person set forth in sub-item (b)):5 years from the date of deportation;

第二十四条各号(第四号オからヨまで及び第四号の三を除く。)のいずれかに該当して本邦からの退去を強制された者で、その退去の日前に本邦からの退去を強制されたこと及び第五十五条の八十五第一項の規定による出国命令により出国したことのないもの(ロに掲げる者を除く。) 退去の日から五年

a person (except for the persons set forth in sub-items (b) and (c)) who has been deported from Japan for falling under any of the items of Article 24 (excluding item (iv), sub-items (l) through (o), and item (iv)-3):10 years from the date of deportation;

第二十四条各号(第四号オからヨまで及び第四号の三を除く。)のいずれかに該当して本邦からの退去を強制された者(ロ及びハに掲げる者を除く。) 退去の日から十年

a person who has departed from Japan under a departure order pursuant to the provisions of Article 55-85, paragraph (1) (excluding a person set forth in sub-item (f)):1 year from the date of departure;

第五十五条の八十五第一項の規定による出国命令により出国した者(ヘに掲げる者を除く。) 出国した日から一年

a person who falls under Article 24-3, item (i), sub-item (b) and who has departed from Japan under a departure order pursuant to the provisions of Article 55-85, paragraph (1) (limited to a person who seeks to engage in the activities set forth in the right-hand column corresponding to "Temporary Visitor" specified in Appended Table I (3)):5 years from the date of departure;

第二十四条の三第一号ロに該当する者であつて、第五十五条の八十五第一項の規定による出国命令により出国したもの(別表第一の三の表の短期滞在の項の下欄に掲げる活動を行おうとする者に限る。) 出国した日から五年

a person who has been sentenced to imprisonment on the charge of a crime provided for in Part II, Chapters XII, XVI through XIX, XXIII, XXVI, XXVII, XXXI, XXXIII, XXXVI, XXXVII or XXXIX of the Penal Code (Act No. 45 of 1907), or in Article 1, 1-2 or 1-3 (excluding the parts pertaining to Article 222 or 261 of the Penal Code) of the Act on Punishment of Physical Violence and Others (Act No. 60 of 1926), the Act on the Prevention and Punishment of Burglary, Robbery, Theft, etc. (Act No. 9 of 1930), or Article 15 or 16 of the Act on Prohibition of Possession of Special Picking Tools, and Other Related Matters (Act No. 65 of 2003), or Article 2 or Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Act on Punishment of Acts of Inflicting Death or Injury on Others by Driving a Motor Vehicle, etc. (Act No. 86 of 2013), or Article 22 of the Act on Prevention of the Disposal of Stolen Specified Metal Articles and Other Related Matters (Act No. 75 of 2025) during their stay in Japan with the status of residence set forth in the left-hand column of Appended Table I, who subsequently left Japan and whose sentence became final and binding while the relevant person was outside of Japan, and for whom 5 years have not yet elapsed from the date that the sentence became final and binding;

別表第一の上欄の在留資格をもつて本邦に在留している間に刑法(明治四十年法律第四十五号)第二編第十二章、第十六章から第十九章まで、第二十三章、第二十六章、第二十七章、第三十一章、第三十三章、第三十六章、第三十七章若しくは第三十九章の罪、暴力行為等処罰に関する法律(大正十五年法律第六十号)第一条第一条ノ二若しくは第一条ノ三(刑法第二百二十二条又は第二百六十一条に係る部分を除く。)の罪、盗犯等の防止及び処分に関する法律(昭和五年法律第九号)の罪、特殊開錠用具の所持の禁止等に関する法律(平成十五年法律第六十五号)第十五条若しくは第十六条の罪、自動車の運転により人を死傷させる行為等の処罰に関する法律(平成二十五年法律第八十六号)第二条若しくは第六条第一項の罪又は盗難特定金属製物品の処分の防止等に関する法律(令和七年法律第七十五号)第二十二条の罪により拘禁刑に処する判決の宣告を受けた者で、その後出国して本邦外にある間にその判決が確定し、確定の日から五年を経過していないもの

a person who has been deported from Japan for falling under any of Article 24, item (iv), sub-items (1) through (o);

第二十四条第四号オからヨまでのいずれかに該当して本邦からの退去を強制された者

a person who schemes or advocates the overthrow of the Constitution of Japan or the government formed thereunder by means of force or violence, or who organizes or is a member of a political party or any organization which schemes or advocates the same;

日本国憲法又はその下に成立した政府を暴力で破壊することを企て、若しくは主張し、又はこれを企て若しくは主張する政党その他の団体を結成し、若しくはこれに加入している者

a person who organizes, or is a member of, or is closely affiliated with any of the following political parties or organizations:

次に掲げる政党その他の団体を結成し、若しくはこれに加入し、又はこれと密接な関係を有する者

a political party or organization which encourages acts of violence or the assault, killing, or injury of officials of the government or of local public entities for the reason of being officials;

公務員であるという理由により、公務員に暴行を加え、又は公務員を殺傷することを勧奨する政党その他の団体

a political party or organization which encourages illegal damage to or destruction of public facilities;

公共の施設を不法に損傷し、又は破壊することを勧奨する政党その他の団体

a political party or organization which encourages acts of dispute to interrupt or prevent the normal maintenance or operation of the security facilities of a factory or other workplaces;

工場事業場における安全保持の施設の正常な維持又は運行を停廃し、又は妨げるような争議行為を勧奨する政党その他の団体

a person who schemes to prepare, distribute, or exhibit printed particulars, motion pictures, or any other documents or drawings to attain the objectives of any political party or organization prescribed in item (xi) or the preceding item; or

第十一号又は前号に規定する政党その他の団体の目的を達するため、印刷物、映画その他の文書図画を作成し、頒布し、又は展示することを企てる者

other than those persons set forth in items (i) through (xiii), a person whom the Minister of Justice has reasonable grounds to believe is likely to commit an act which could be detrimental to the interests or public security of Japan.

前各号に掲げる者を除くほか、法務大臣において日本国の利益又は公安を害する行為を行うおそれがあると認めるに足りる相当の理由がある者

Even if a foreign national seeking to land in Japan does not fall under any of the items of the preceding paragraph, if the country of which the foreign national is a national or citizen denies landing to a Japanese national for any ground other than those set forth in the items of the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Justice may deny their landing for the same ground.

法務大臣は、本邦に上陸しようとする外国人前項各号のいずれにも該当しない場合でも、その者の国籍又は市民権の属する国が同項各号以外の事由により日本人の上陸を拒否するときは、同一の事由により当該外国人の上陸を拒否することができる。

Article 5-2Special Cases of Denial of Landing

第五条の二(上陸の拒否の特例)

Even when there is a specific ground that falls under the provisions of paragraph (1), items (iv), (v), (vii), (ix) or (ix)-2 of the preceding Article for a foreign national, if the Minister of Justice grants the foreign national re-entry permission pursuant to the provisions of Article 26, paragraph (1) or other cases provided for by the provisions of Ministry of Justice Order and if the Minister finds reasonable grounds to do so, the Minister may decide not to deny the foreign national landing in Japan due to only that specific ground.

法務大臣は、外国人について、前条第一項第四号第五号第七号第九号又は第九号の二に該当する特定の事由がある場合であつても、当該外国人に第二十六条第一項の規定により再入国の許可を与えた場合その他の法務省令で定める場合において、相当と認めるときは、法務省令で定めるところにより、当該事由のみによつては上陸を拒否しないこととすることができる。

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