Real Property Registration Act
不動産登記法
How land and buildings, and rights over them such as ownership and mortgages, are recorded in a public register (), to protect people's rights and keep property dealings safe and smooth.
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What this law does
- A registration record (登記記録) is kept for each parcel of land and each building, in two parts. The heading section (表題部) holds the registration of a description (表示に関する登記) — among other things, for land where it lies, its parcel number, land category and area; for a building where it stands, its building number, type, structure and floor area; and, while no ownership is registered, the owner's name or corporate name, address and each co-owner's share, except for a building registered as a common element (共用部分) or estate common element (団地共用部分). The rights section (権利部) holds registrations of rights (権利に関する登記) — ownership, superficies, farming rights, servitudes, statutory liens, pledges, mortgages, rights of lease, a spouse's right of residence and quarrying rights — and rights registered over the same property rank in the order they were registered, unless laws and regulations (法令) provide otherwise.(Art. 2(1)(v), Art. 2(1)(vii), Art. 2(1)(viii), Art. 12(1), Art. 27(1), Art. 27(1)(iii), Art. 34(1), Art. 44(1), Art. 3(1), Art. 4(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
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- An application to register a right must be made jointly by the person who directly gains by it on the register (登記権利者, the person entitled to register) and the registered holder who directly loses by it (登記義務者, the person obliged to register), unless laws and regulations (法令) provide otherwise. The application must come with information certifying the cause of the registration (登記原因) — the facts or legal act that led to it — again unless laws and regulations provide otherwise.(Art. 60(1), Art. 2(1)(xii), Art. 2(1)(xiii), Art. 61(1), Art. 5(2)) (the provisions it rests on)
- When a registration makes the applicant a registered holder, the registrar must promptly notify them of registration identification information (登記識別情報), a code used to confirm that it is really that holder applying, unless they asked in advance not to receive it or in other cases a Ministry of Justice Order specifies. When that holder later applies jointly as the person obliged to register, or a registered holder applies for a registration a Cabinet Order specifies, the application must come with the information, unless it was never notified or there are other justifiable grounds for not providing it.(Art. 2(1)(xiv), Art. 21(1), Art. 22(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
- A person who acquires ownership of newly formed land, of land with no heading registration (表題登記), of a newly built building, or of a building other than a condominium unit (区分建物) with no heading registration, must apply for its heading registration within one month of acquiring it. The same one-month duty falls on the owner of a building registered as a common element (共用部分) or estate common element (団地共用部分) when the rules (規約) making it one are abolished, counted from the abolition, and on anyone who acquires it afterwards, counted from their acquisition.(Art. 36(1), Art. 47(1), Art. 58(6), Art. 58(7)) (the provisions it rests on)
- The heading-section owner (表題部所有者) or registered holder of ownership — for a building registered as a common element (共用部分) or estate common element (団地共用部分), its owner — must apply to register a change in land category or area, or in most of a building's registered particulars, within one month of the change, and to register that land or a building has been lost (滅失) within one month of the loss; whoever becomes the heading-section owner or registered holder after such a change must apply within one month of their own registration, the owner of a building registered as a common element after the change within one month of that registration, and a later buyer of such a building within one month of acquiring it. Where two or more buildings are joined into one (合体), the owners Article 49 names must apply, within one month of the joining, for the heading registration of the joined building and to remove the heading sections of the old ones. Where one of the old buildings had no heading registration, someone who afterwards acquires from its owner the share in the joined building matching it, or anyone who becomes the recorded owner of one of the old buildings, must apply within one month of that acquisition or registration.(Art. 37(1), Art. 37(2), Art. 51(1), Art. 51(2), Art. 51(3), Art. 51(4), Art. 42(1), Art. 57(1), Art. 49(1), Art. 49(3), Art. 49(4)) (the provisions it rests on)
- When inheritance from a registered holder of ownership commences, the person who acquires the ownership by the inheritance, or by a bequest (遺贈) to an heir, must apply to register the transfer of ownership within three years of the day they learn both that the inheritance has commenced for them and that they have acquired the ownership. The duty also covers inheritances that commenced before it took effect; for them the three years run from that day or from the day the duty took effect, whichever is later.(Art. 76-2(1), Suppl. Prov. Art. 5(6)) (the provisions it rests on)
- A person under that duty may instead declare to the registrar that the inheritance has commenced and that they are an heir of the registered holder (相続人である旨の申出), and the registrar may note any such declaration on the ownership registration, with the declarant's name, address and other matters a Ministry of Justice Order specifies. Declaring within the three years counts as meeting the duty, except for ownership acquired by a division of the estate (遺産の分割) made before the declaration. Whoever acquires ownership by a division after declaring must apply to register it within three years of the division; but where the inheritance has already been registered by the shares of inheritance calculated under the Civil Code (民法), the duty falls only on whoever takes more than their share by a later division, within three years of the division or, for an inheritance that commenced before the duty took effect, of the day it took effect if that is later.(Art. 76-3(1), Art. 76-3(2), Art. 76-3(3), Art. 76-3(4), Art. 76-2(2), Suppl. Prov. Art. 5(6)) (the provisions it rests on)
- When the name or address of a registered holder of ownership changes, the holder must apply to register the change within two years of it. This also covers changes made before the duty took effect, with the two years running from the change or from the day the duty took effect, whichever is later. The registrar may also register such a change on their own authority in cases a Ministry of Justice Order specifies, but for an individual only when that individual asks.(Art. 76-5(1), Suppl. Prov. Art. 5(7), Art. 76-6(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
- Only the following may apply for the first registration of ownership (所有権の保存の登記): the heading-section owner or their heir or other general successor, a person whose ownership a final and binding judgment confirms, and a person who acquired ownership by expropriation (収用). For a condominium unit (区分建物), a person who acquired ownership from the heading-section owner may also apply, with the consent of the registered holder of the site right (敷地権) where the unit has one.(Art. 74(1), Art. 74(2)) (the provisions it rests on)
- A provisional registration (仮登記) may be made where a right has been created, transferred or otherwise dealt with but information a Ministry of Justice Order names among what must accompany the application cannot be provided, or to preserve a claim to the creation, transfer, change or extinction of a right, including a claim with a start date or a condition, or one expected to become certain later. A final registration later made on it ranks from the provisional registration. The person entitled may apply for a provisional registration alone with the consent of the person obliged, or under an order the district court for the property's location makes on their application, for which they must make a prima facie showing (疎明) of the facts behind it.(Art. 105(1), Art. 105(1)(i), Art. 105(1)(ii), Art. 106(1), Art. 107(1), Art. 108(1), Art. 108(2), Art. 108(3)) (the provisions it rests on)
- Anyone may, on paying a fee, obtain from a registrar a certificate of registered matters (登記事項証明書) for all or part of a registration record, or a document summarising it, and may ask for a certificate at a registry office other than the one for the property, except where a Ministry of Justice Order provides otherwise. Anyone may likewise obtain copies of, and inspect, the registry office's maps and the drawings a Cabinet Order names among the documents annexed to the register. A person may also obtain, from a registrar at a registry office the Minister of Justice designates, a certificate of the property recorded with them as registered holder of ownership (所有不動産記録証明書), and an heir or other general successor one for the person they succeed.(Art. 119(1), Art. 119(2), Art. 119(5), Art. 120(1), Art. 120(2), Art. 121(1), Art. 121(2), Art. 119-2(1), Art. 119-2(2), Art. 119-2(3)) (the provisions it rests on)
- The owner of a parcel of land — its registered holder of ownership or heading-section owner and their heirs or other general successors, or for land with no heading registration its owner — may apply to a registrar for parcel boundary demarcation (筆界特定登記官), a registrar the head of the Legal Affairs Bureau or District Legal Affairs Bureau designates, to fix on site where the parcel boundary (筆界), the line taken as the parcel's edge when it was registered, lies, or if that cannot be fixed, the range it lies in; an application aimed instead at where ownership ends is dismissed. Parcel boundary examiners (筆界調査委員) investigate and survey, the applicant and the neighbouring owners concerned get a hearing to give opinions and materials, and the registrar then issues a written report of the demarcation, with the applicant bearing the survey and other costs. A final court judgment fixing the boundary overrides the demarcation to the extent they conflict.(Art. 123(1)(i), Art. 123(1)(ii), Art. 123(1)(v), Art. 125(1), Art. 131(1), Art. 132(1)(v), Art. 127(1), Art. 135(1), Art. 140(1), Art. 143(1), Art. 146(1), Art. 148(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
Registration of a descriptionJoint applicationRegistration identification informationRegistering an inheritanceChange of name or addressCertificate of registered mattersParcel boundary demarcationCivil fines for not applying
Contents
175 438 245 23 84
- Chapter I General Provisions第一章 総則Articles 1–5 · 5
- Chapter II Registry Office and Registrar第二章 登記所及び登記官Articles 6–10 · 5
- Chapter III Registration Record, etc.第三章 登記記録等Articles 11–15 · 5
- Chapter IV Registration Procedures第四章 登記手続Articles 16–118 · 113
- Section 1 General Provisions第一節 総則Articles 16–26 · 11
- Section 2 Registration of a Description第二節 表示に関する登記Articles 27–58 · 32
- Subsection 1 General Rules第一款 通則Articles 27–33 · 7
- Subsection 2 Registration of a Description of Land第二款 土地の表示に関する登記Articles 34–43 · 10
- Subsection 3 Registration of a Description of a Building第三款 建物の表示に関する登記Articles 44–58 · 15
- Section 3 Registration of Right第三節 権利に関する登記Articles 59–118 · 70
- Subsection 1 General Rules第一款 通則Articles 59–73 · 17
- Subsection 2 Registration of Ownership第二款 所有権に関する登記Articles 73-2–77 · 10
- Subsection 3 Registration of Usufruct第三款 用益権に関する登記Articles 78–82 · 6
- Subsection 4 Registration of Security Interest, etc.第四款 担保権等に関する登記Articles 83–96 · 14
- Subsection 5 Registration of Trust第五款 信託に関する登記Articles 97–104-2 · 9
- Subsection 6 Provisional Registration第六款 仮登記Articles 105–110 · 6
- Subsection 7 Registration of Provisional Disposition第七款 仮処分に関する登記Articles 111–114 · 4
- Subsection 8 Registration Involving Government Agency or Public Office第八款 官庁又は公署が関与する登記等Articles 115–118 · 4
- Chapter V Certification, etc. of Registered Matters第五章 登記事項の証明等Articles 119–122 · 5
- Chapter VI Parcel Boundary Demarcation第六章 筆界特定Articles 123–150 · 28
- Section 1 General Provisions第一節 総則Articles 123–130 · 8
- Section 2 Procedure for Parcel Boundary Demarcation第二節 筆界特定の手続Articles 131–141 · 11
- Subsection 1 Application for Parcel Boundary Demarcation第一款 筆界特定の申請Articles 131–133 · 3
- Subsection 2 Examination of Parcel Boundary, etc.第二款 筆界の調査等Articles 134–141 · 8
- Section 3 Parcel Boundary Demarcation第三節 筆界特定Articles 142–145 · 4
- Section 4 Miscellaneous Provisions第四節 雑則Articles 146–150 · 5
- Chapter VII Miscellaneous Provisions第七章 雑則Articles 151–158 · 8
- Chapter VIII Penal Provisions第八章 罰則Articles 159–164 · 6
Amendments
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Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts upon the Enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc.
民法等の一部を改正する法律の施行に伴う関係法律の整備等に関する法律
The date on which the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc. (Act No. 45 of 2026) comes into force. The exact day is not fixed yet.
25 amendments already in force
24 June 2026
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Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts upon the Enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc.
民法等の一部を改正する法律の施行に伴う関係法律の整備等に関する法律
21 May 2026
Act Partially Amending the Basic Act on the Formation of a Digital Society, etc. to Promote Regulatory Reform for the Formation of a Digital Society
デジタル社会の形成を図るための規制改革を推進するためのデジタル社会形成基本法等の一部を改正する法律
1 April 2026
1 April 2026
2 February 2026
1 June 2025
Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts upon the Enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc.
刑法等の一部を改正する法律の施行に伴う関係法律の整理等に関する法律
1 April 2024
Act Partially Amending the Basic Act on the Formation of a Digital Society, etc. to Promote Regulatory Reform for the Formation of a Digital Society
デジタル社会の形成を図るための規制改革を推進するためのデジタル社会形成基本法等の一部を改正する法律
1 April 2024
16 June 2023
Act Partially Amending the Basic Act on the Formation of a Digital Society, etc. to Promote Regulatory Reform for the Formation of a Digital Society
デジタル社会の形成を図るための規制改革を推進するためのデジタル社会形成基本法等の一部を改正する法律
1 April 2023
1 September 2022
Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts upon the Enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Companies Act
会社法の一部を改正する法律の施行に伴う関係法律の整備等に関する法律
17 June 2022
Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts upon the Enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc.
刑法等の一部を改正する法律の施行に伴う関係法律の整理等に関する法律
18 May 2022
Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts for the Formation of a Digital Society
デジタル社会の形成を図るための関係法律の整備に関する法律
1 April 2022
Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts for the Formation of a Digital Society
デジタル社会の形成を図るための関係法律の整備に関する法律
19 May 2021
Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts for the Formation of a Digital Society
デジタル社会の形成を図るための関係法律の整備に関する法律
28 April 2021
29 September 2020
Act Partially Amending the Basic Act for Land, etc.
土地基本法等の一部を改正する法律
1 April 2020
Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts upon the Enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code
民法の一部を改正する法律の施行に伴う関係法律の整備等に関する法律
1 April 2020
Act Partially Amending the Civil Code and the Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act
民法及び家事事件手続法の一部を改正する法律
16 December 2019
Act Partially Amending the Act on Use of Information and Communications Technology in Administrative Procedures, etc., and Other Acts to Improve Convenience for Persons Concerned in Administrative Procedures, etc. and to Simplify and Streamline Administrative Operations through the Use of Information and Communications Technology
情報通信技術の活用による行政手続等に係る関係者の利便性の向上並びに行政運営の簡素化及び効率化を図るための行政手続等における情報通信の技術の利用に関する法律等の一部を改正する法律
11 December 2019
Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts upon the Enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Companies Act
会社法の一部を改正する法律の施行に伴う関係法律の整備等に関する法律
13 July 2018
Act Partially Amending the Civil Code and the Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act
民法及び家事事件手続法の一部を改正する法律
2 June 2017
Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts upon the Enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code
民法の一部を改正する法律の施行に伴う関係法律の整備等に関する法律
30 May 2017
Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts for Contributing to the Creation of New Industries and the Realization of a Vibrant Economic Society and an Enriched Quality of Life for the People through the Proper and Effective Use of Personal Information Held by Administrative Organs, etc.
行政機関等の保有する個人情報の適正かつ効果的な活用による新たな産業の創出並びに活力ある経済社会及び豊かな国民生活の実現に資するための関係法律の整備に関する法律
1 April 2016
Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts upon the Enforcement of the Administrative Complaint Review Act
行政不服審査法の施行に伴う関係法律の整備等に関する法律
Who it applies to
It applies to
- Anyone who acquires ownership of newly formed land, of land with no heading registration, of a newly built building, or of a building other than a condominium unit (区分建物) with no heading registration; and owners of land and buildings already recorded — the person recorded as owner in the heading section (表題部所有者), the registered holder of ownership (所有権の登記名義人), or for a building registered as a common element (共用部分) or estate common element (団地共用部分) its owner — including those who become so after a change. All of them carry duties to apply for registrations of the description.(Art. 36(1), Art. 47(1), Art. 2(1)(x), Art. 2(1)(xi), Art. 37(1), Art. 37(2), Art. 42(1), Art. 49(1), Art. 51(1), Art. 51(2), Art. 57(1), Art. 58(6)) (the provisions it rests on)
- Anyone who acquires, by inheritance or by a bequest to an heir, ownership that was registered in the name of the person whose inheritance commenced; and anyone who then acquires ownership by a division of the estate after an heir's declaration, or more than their share by a division after a registration by the statutory shares.(Art. 76-2(1), Art. 76-2(2), Art. 76-3(4)) (the provisions it rests on)
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- Registered holders of ownership, who must apply to register a change of their name or address within two years of it; where a holder has no address in Japan, an ownership registration applied for since that rule took effect also records a contact person in Japan and other details a Ministry of Justice Order specifies.(Art. 76-5(1), Art. 73-2(1)(ii), Suppl. Prov. Art. 5(4)) (the provisions it rests on)
- The parties to a registration of a right — the person entitled to register and the person obliged to register — who apply together, and their heirs or other general successors, who may apply in their place.(Art. 60(1), Art. 62(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
- Government agencies and public offices (官庁又は公署): where the State or a local government is the person entitled to register a right, they must commission the registry office to register it, with the consent of the person obliged; where it is the person obliged, they must do so when the person entitled asks; and after a public sale they carried out, when the person entitled asks. River administrators must commission a registration when land comes inside a river area or another zone Article 43 lists, and its cancellation when the land leaves it.(Art. 116(1), Art. 116(2), Art. 115(1), Art. 43(1), Art. 43(2), Art. 43(3)) (the provisions it rests on)
Special rules and exceptions (8)
- Where a final and binding judgment orders one of the parties who must apply jointly to carry out the registration procedure, the other party may apply alone.(Art. 63(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
- A registration of a transfer of a right by inheritance or by a corporate merger, and of ownership by a bequest to an heir, may be applied for by the person entitled to register alone.(Art. 63(2), Art. 63(3)) (the provisions it rests on)
- A registered holder may apply alone to register a change or correction of their own name or address.(Art. 64(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
- The duties to register an inheritance, a bequest to an heir or a later division of the estate do not apply once that registration has been made on the application of a subrogee (代位者) or another person, or on a public body's commission.(Art. 76-2(3), Art. 76-3(5)) (the provisions it rests on)
- Where the person with whom a registration must be cancelled jointly cannot be found, the person entitled to register may apply for a public notice (公示催告) under the Non-Contentious Cases Procedures Act (非訟事件手続法), and once an order of nullification of rights (除権決定) is made, may apply alone to cancel it. A registered statutory lien, pledge or mortgage can then also be cancelled by that person alone on proof, as a Cabinet Order specifies, that the secured claim has ended, or once 20 years have passed since it fell due and the full claim, interest and damages have since been deposited; a registered buy-back agreement (買戻しの特約) may be cancelled alone ten years after the contract date.(Art. 70(1), Art. 70(3), Art. 70(4), Art. 69-2(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
- Under the transitional rules of this Act, once the Minister of Justice has designated a registry office's procedure for online filing, a certificate of registration (登記済証) issued under the earlier Real Property Registration Act (Act No. 24 of 1899) or before the designation, presented with an application, counts as providing the registration identification information.(Suppl. Prov. Art. 7(1), Suppl. Prov. Art. 6(1), Enacting Stmt. 1, Art. 22(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
- Documents annexed to the register, other than the drawings anyone may see, can be inspected only by a person with justifiable grounds, and only the part those grounds cover, or by an applicant for the records of their own registration. Where showing the address of an individual on the record is likely to endanger their life or body, or in similar cases a Ministry of Justice Order specifies, the registrar must, at that person's request, put something a Ministry of Justice Order specifies in place of the address on certificates and summaries.(Art. 121(3), Art. 121(4), Art. 119(6)) (the provisions it rests on)
- The Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs (行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律) does not apply to the register and related records or to boundary demarcation reports, and Chapter 5, Section 4 of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (個人情報の保護に関する法律) does not apply to personal information recorded in the register and related records.(Art. 154(1), Art. 155(1), Art. 122(1), Art. 149(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
How it is enforced (9)
- Registration is handled by the registry office (登記所) — the Legal Affairs Bureau () or District Legal Affairs Bureau, or one of their branch bureaus or branch offices (支局・出張所) — with jurisdiction over where the property lies, and a registrar (登記官) designated from Ministry of Justice officials makes each entry. A registration is made only on a party's application or a public body's commission (嘱託), unless laws and regulations provide otherwise, but the registrar may make a registration of a description on their own authority.(Art. 6(1), Art. 9(1), Art. 11(1), Art. 16(1), Art. 28(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
- The registrar must dismiss an application, by a decision giving reasons, in the cases Article 25 lists — among them an office without jurisdiction, a registration already made, an applicant without authority, details that do not match the register, required information not provided, and unpaid registration and license tax (登録免許税) — unless a correctable defect is corrected within the period the registrar sets.(Art. 25(1), Art. 25(1)(i), Art. 25(1)(iii), Art. 25(1)(iv), Art. 25(1)(vi), Art. 25(1)(ix), Art. 25(1)(xii)) (the provisions it rests on)
- If registration identification information cannot be provided, the registrar must notify the person obliged to register and may not register until that person confirms the application within a period a Ministry of Justice Order sets, and dismisses it if no confirmation comes; for ownership, where that person's address on the register has been changed, the registrar must also notify the previous address before registering, except in cases a Ministry of Justice Order specifies, and neither notice is sent where the application is to be dismissed on another ground. The first notice is not needed where the application is made by an agent who may act in registration applications as a business and that agent supplies information confirming the applicant is that person, or where a notary (公証人) has authenticated the application document for that purpose, and in either case the registrar accepts it. A registrar who has reasonable grounds to suspect that someone other than the rightful applicant is applying must, unless the application is to be dismissed anyway, investigate by calling in and questioning the applicant, their representative or agent, or asking for documents.(Art. 23(1), Art. 23(2), Art. 23(3), Art. 23(4)(i), Art. 23(4)(ii), Art. 25(1)(x), Art. 24(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
- For a registration of a description, the registrar may examine the property and, where needed, between sunrise and sunset inspect it and question the owner or others concerned or ask them to show documents. Refusing, obstructing or evading that inspection, not showing the documents asked for or showing false ones, or not answering or answering falsely, is punishable by a fine of up to 300,000 yen; where this is done in the business of a corporation or individual, the corporation or individual is fined as well.(Art. 29(1), Art. 29(2), Art. 162(1)(i), Art. 162(1)(ii), Art. 163(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
- For a parcel boundary demarcation, the head of the Legal Affairs Bureau or District Legal Affairs Bureau may, where needed, have the examiners or staff enter other people's land, after notifying the occupier in advance; fenced or residential land may not be entered before sunrise or after sunset without the occupier's consent. The occupier may not refuse or obstruct the entry without justifiable grounds, on pain of a fine of up to 300,000 yen, and the State compensates the ordinary loss the entry causes.(Art. 137(1), Art. 137(2), Art. 137(3), Art. 137(4), Art. 137(5), Art. 137(7), Art. 162(1)(iii), Art. 163(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
- Where a completed registration of a right turns out to have been made at an office without jurisdiction, for something that cannot be registered, twice, or in another case a Cabinet Order sets as not to be registered, the registrar must notify the parties and interested third parties that it will be cancelled unless someone objects in writing within a period of up to one month. If no one objects, or an objection is dismissed, the registrar cancels the registration on their own authority.(Art. 71(1), Art. 71(3), Art. 71(4), Art. 25(1)(i), Art. 25(1)(ii), Art. 25(1)(iii), Art. 25(1)(xiii)) (the provisions it rests on)
- A person obliged to apply for a registration of the description (Articles 36, 37(1)–(2), 42, 47(1), also as applied by 49(2), 49(1), (3) and (4), 51(1)–(4), 57 and 58(6)–(7)), or to register ownership acquired by inheritance, by a bequest to an heir or by a later division of the estate (Articles 76-2(1)–(2) and 76-3(4)), who fails to without justifiable grounds is liable to a civil fine (過料) of up to 100,000 yen. Failing without justifiable grounds to apply to register a change of name or address under Article 76-5 brings a civil fine of up to 50,000 yen.(Art. 164(1), Art. 164(2)) (the provisions it rests on)
- Registrars and other officials in registration work, present or past, who leak secrets about how registration identification information is made or managed face imprisonment (拘禁刑) of up to two years or a fine of up to 1,000,000 yen. Obtaining registration identification information to use it for an application that would put a false record in the register, knowingly supplying it for that, or keeping wrongly obtained information for that purpose, is punishable by up to two years or 500,000 yen, and so is an agent's giving false information when confirming an applicant's identity; a corporation or individual in whose business that false information is given is fined as well.(Art. 152(2), Art. 159(1), Art. 161(1), Art. 161(2), Art. 160(1), Art. 163(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
- A person dissatisfied with a registrar's disposition, or who applied and saw no action taken, may request review (審査請求) by the Director of the Legal Affairs Bureau or District Legal Affairs Bureau supervising the registrar, filing it through the registrar, who either makes the proper disposition or sends the case with an opinion to the Director within three days. Chapters 2 and 3 of the Administrative Procedure Act (行政手続法) do not apply to a registrar's dispositions.(Art. 156(1), Art. 156(2), Art. 157(1), Art. 157(2), Art. 153(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
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