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出入国管理及び難民認定法及び外国人の技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に関する法律の一部を改正する法律の施行に伴う関係政令の整備及び経過措置に関する政令
出入国管理及び難民認定法及び日本国との平和条約に基づき日本の国籍を離脱した者等の出入国管理に関する特例法の一部を改正する等の法律の施行に伴う関係政令の整備及び経過措置に関する政令
出入国管理及び難民認定法
ストーカー行為等の規制等に関する法律
With the same motive and towards the same people, getting location information without consent (位置情報無承諾取得等) means, witho…
Where a completed registration of a right turns out to have been made at an office without jurisdiction, for something t…
The Act gives its powers to the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣), who delegates them, apart from those a Cabinet Order (政令) keeps…
Where someone took a technical secret about a production method, or other information a Cabinet Order (政令) names, by unf…
If a certified Primary Insured Person — other than one entitled to medical benefits such as those for atomic bomb surviv…
住宅宿泊事業法
For a foreign intermediary — one with no address or residence, or no principal office, in Japan that runs the business a…
住民基本台帳法
A person moving in must attach a document on the move that a Cabinet Order names, unless they come from abroad or are am…
住民基本台帳法施行令第三十条の二十及び出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令第二十四条第三項に規定する通知の方法を定める省令
The notice the Commissioner gives a mayor under Article 30-20 of the Order for Enforcement of the Basic Resident Registr…
個人情報の保護に関する法律
Businesses handling personal information (個人情報取扱事業者): any person or organisation using in its business a personal inform…
個別労働関係紛争の解決の促進に関する法律
A Dispute Coordinating Committee sits in each Prefectural Labour Bureau. Its members, at least three and no more than a…
A landlord and tenant can agree that a fixed-term building lease will not be renewed (定期建物賃貸借) only in a written contrac…
健康保険法
The injury and sickness allowance is not paid while a disability employees' pension (障害厚生年金) can be received for the sam…
児童手当法
The heads of the ministries and agencies, prefectures and municipalities that employ full-time public servants (and othe…
公益通報者保護法
The Prime Minister may ask businesses for reports and give them advice, guidance or recommendations on their duties to d…
最低賃金法
Mariners (船員) covered by the Mariners Act (船員法), a separate Act, have no regional minimum wage, and Articles 6(2), 16 an…
A specified residence card (特定在留カード, a residence card that also serves as a My Number card) handed over at the municipal…
出入国管理及び難民認定法第二条第五号ロの旅券を所持する外国人の上陸申請の特例に関する法律
Residents of Taiwan holding a passport issued by Taiwan's competent authority who come to Japan for a Temporary Visitor'…
Imprisonment (拘禁刑) is for life or for a fixed term of 1 month to 20 years, which can be raised to 30 years when the puni…
労働保険の保険料の徴収等に関する法律
In a farming or forestry business, or a livestock, sericulture or fishery business not employing seafarers, that a Cabin…
労働基準法
For teachers and other educational staff (教育職員) of public schools such as elementary, junior high and high schools, spec…
A principal employer (元方事業者) that has subcontracted part of a job at one site must guide its subcontractors and the peop…
労働施策の総合的な推進並びに労働者の雇用の安定及び職業生活の充実等に関する法律
The State and local governments as employers: the duties to report a large fluctuation in employment and a foreign natio…
労働組合法
The liquidator of a union that is a corporation faces a civil fine (過料) of up to 500,000 yen for failing to register, fa…
労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の保護等に関する法律
The Minister must refuse a licence to, among others: a person sentenced to imprisonment (拘禁刑) or heavier, or fined under…
For the time being, businesses a Cabinet Order (政令) names are not covered businesses, apart from those the Act covered b…
The Minister publishes doctors' names and other details a Cabinet Order sets, so that patients and others can check a do…
For hospitals, clinics and birthing centers the national government opens, and online consultation facilities it sets up…
Employed people aged 70 or over (高齢任意加入被保険者): someone 70 or over employed at an applicable place of business, not exclud…
Secondhand goods auction brokers (古物競りあつせん業者), who broker sales of secondhand goods by a computer-system auction or anot…
国民の祝日に関する法律
The Act has no penalties. Apart from leaving the date of National Foundation Commemoration Day (建国記念の日) to a Cabinet Ord…
If a head of household or society member still does not pay a premium — including, where the municipality levies it inst…
国民年金法
Category 2 insured persons (第2号被保険者): everyone insured under the Employees' Pension Insurance (厚生年金保険), which a separate…
Before an on-site inquiry (by customs officials, only one made after goods leave a bonded area or into the international…
地方税法
Neither the municipality nor the prefecture can levy residents' tax on people receiving livelihood assistance (生活扶助) und…
外国人の技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に関する法律
The competent ministers (主務大臣) under this Act are the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare…
女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律
Specified employers (特定事業主): the organs of the national and local governments, their heads and their officials that a Ca…
学校教育法
Municipalities (市町村), Tokyo's special wards (区) included, as a city (市) in this Act includes them, which must found the…
宅地建物取引業法
Anyone who carries on the real estate brokerage business (宅地建物取引業): as a business, buying, selling or exchanging land fo…
建物の区分所有等に関する法律
Chapter 3, on what the holders of the site-use right may do after a building is destroyed, does not apply to a building…
所得税法
National and local public servants, who are treated as domiciled in Japan for any period in which they have no domicile…
A Ministerial Order (省令) of the Ministry of Finance that carries out the Income Tax Act (所得税法) and that Act's Cabinet Or…
旅券法
In an urgent case, where the prefectural governor or the Minister for Foreign Affairs finds it necessary, an applicant i…
The governor (都道府県知事) may refuse a licence if the facility's structure and equipment fall short of standards a Cabinet O…
日本国との平和条約に基づき日本の国籍を離脱した者等の出入国管理に関する特例法施行規則
Someone applying at the municipal office for a specified special permanent resident certificate (特定特別永住者証明書), which also…
The Cabinet enacts a Cabinet Order (政令) to carry out this Constitution and the laws. A Cabinet Order may not create pena…
東日本大震災からの復興のための施策を実施するために必要な財源の確保に関する特別措置法
A resident filing a special income tax for reconstruction return whose foreign income taxes are more than the credit lim…
Specified employers (特定事業主): the organs of the national and local governments, or their heads or officials, that a Cabin…
Some movables cannot be seized: the clothing, bedding, furniture, kitchen utensils, tatami and fittings the debtor's hou…
The main provisions of Act No. 48 of 2022 came into force on a day a Cabinet Order set, which e-Gov's record of this Cod…
民事調停法
A party, or a third party who shows grounds for an interest in the case (利害関係を疎明した第三者), may ask the court clerk (裁判所書記官)…
法の適用に関する通則法
This Act wholly revised the former Act on the application of laws (法例, Act No. 10 of 1898) and came into force on a day…
Domestic corporations (内国法人) — corporations with their head or main office in Japan — on their income for each business…
A business that receives in its business, from a foreign business (国外事業者), digital services of a kind normally bought on…
消費者契約法
Organizations are certified by the Prime Minister, whose powers under Chapter 3 are delegated to the Commissioner of the…
As a Cabinet Order (政令) provides, part of the governor's powers under Chapter 4 on hot spring use — which includes the r…
特定受託事業者に係る取引の適正化等に関する法律
Work counts as entrusted (業務委託) when a business, for its own business, has another business make or process goods, creat…
特定商取引に関する法律
Sellers and service providers (販売業者, 役務提供事業者) selling goods, specified rights (特定権利: rights to use facilities or receive…
特定在留カードの交付の申請に関する規則
A foreign national issued a specified residence card on an application made with a change notification, a renewal or rei…
特定電子メールの送信の適正化等に関する法律
The Prime Minister's powers under this Act, except those a Cabinet Order (政令) keeps, are delegated to the Commissioner o…
犯罪による収益の移転防止に関する法律
Other specified businesses: businesses that buy goods a customer chooses and lease them to the customer (leases of a kin…
A person dissatisfied with the governor's ruling on a request about a decision made by a city, town or village mayor, or…
A general incorporated association or foundation (一般社団法人・一般財団法人) — other than a public interest one, a non-profit type o…
Except where the Act provides otherwise, Parts 1 to 4 of the Code of Civil Procedure (民事訴訟法) apply to the proceedings as…
Only a corporation registered with the competent ministers — the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Prime Mi…
Labor and social security attorney corporations (社会保険労務士法人), which only labor and social security attorneys may set up a…
In an audit of dealings with a foreign affiliate that must be documented at the time (同時文書化対象国外関連取引), where a corporatio…
Public employment security offices, local governments that run placement and placement agencies must accept every job op…
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
The same punishments apply to injuring or killing someone by driving in any of these ways: cutting in just in front of a…
Non-life insurance companies, including foreign ones, that write compulsory automobile liability insurance, and the agri…
著作権法
Businesses that rent out commercial phonograms to the public (貸レコード業者): renting out a commercial phonogram needs the aut…
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
People recorded in a municipality's basic resident register, who are given an individual number, foreign residents (外国人住…
A hearing is presided over by an official the administrative agency nominates, or by another person a Cabinet Order (政令)…
行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律
Requests are decided by the heads of the administrative organs (行政機関) Article 2(1) lists: bodies set up in the Cabinet u…
製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律
The other three: creating information-based products (情報成果物) — software, films, broadcasts and other works of images or…
賃金の支払の確保等に関する法律
A worker may report an employer's breach of this Act, or of the Cabinet Orders and Ministerial Orders made under it, to…
資金決済に関する法律
Intermediaries for electronic payment instruments and cryptoassets (電子決済手段・暗号資産サービス仲介業者): businesses that, on commission…
道路交通法
To get a licence, a person applies to the public safety commission of their address and passes its test of aptitude, dri…
道路運送車両法
Motorized bicycles (原動機付自転車) and light vehicles (軽車両, those a Cabinet Order (政令) names) are road transport vehicles unde…
Special-case facility occupants (特例施設占有者): occupants of facilities used by many members of the public that receive many…
配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律
Parties to protection-order proceedings may ask to inspect and copy the case record, but the respondent may not until a…
The Prime Minister's powers under the Act, apart from those a Cabinet Order keeps, are delegated to the Commissioner of…
銀行法
Shareholders and holding companies: anyone holding more than 5% of the voting rights in a bank or a bank holding company…
障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律
The appointers (任命権者) of national and local government bodies: if a body employs fewer qualifying disabled staff than it…
For the time being, farming, forestry, livestock and fishing businesses a Cabinet Order sets — not those of the state or…
電気工事士法
People who take the electrician examination, or apply for a qualified special electrical worker's or certified electrica…
高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律
Those carrying out public works in a specified area (特定地域) — where middle-aged and older unemployed people find it very…
高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律
Everyone 75 or over with an address (住所) in an association's area is insured under the old-old medical care it runs, as…