The law collection

The rules for forming, organising, running and managing companies: the four kinds of company, their shareholders or members, their directors and other officers, their accounts, and how they merge, split and dissolve.

The rules for entering and leaving Japan, for how foreign nationals live here under a status of residence (在留資格), for deporting them, and for recognising refugees.

The legal minimum for working conditions: working hours, breaks and days off, leave, wages and notice of dismissal.

A ministerial ordinance setting out details that the Labor Standards Act leaves to an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

The rules of the individual labor contract: how it is formed and changed, and when a dismissal is void.

The rules shared by most taxes the State imposes (national taxes, 国税): how the tax owed is fixed and paid, the extra taxes for filing or paying late or short, tax inquiries, appeals against the tax authorities, and the investigation of tax crimes.

Japan's national income tax: who pays it and on which income, how it is worked out, how it is filed and paid, and the tax that employers and other payers must withhold from what they pay.

Japan's supreme law: it declares that sovereign power rests with the people, makes the Diet the sole law-making organ, gives executive power to the Cabinet and judicial power to the courts, guarantees fundamental human rights, and puts the duty to respect and uphold it on those who hold public office.