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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
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
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法務省関係省令の整備及び経過措置に関する省令
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第五十五条の十七第一項の規定による医師等職員の兼業等に関する規則
ストーカー行為等の規制等に関する法律
The Superintendent-General of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, the chief of a prefectural police headquarters o…
The registrar must dismiss an application, by a decision giving reasons, in the cases Article 25 lists — among them an o…
Officers, employees, agents and others acting for a business's benefit count as that business for the definition of a tr…
不正アクセス行為の禁止等に関する法律
Under Article 14, the crimes of unauthorized access and of obtaining, knowingly handing over, or storing identification…
Bribing a foreign public official outside Japan is punishable for Japanese nationals, as Penal Code Article 3 provides f…
Primary Insured Persons (第一号被保険者): a person aged 65 or over with an address (住所) in a municipality or special ward (特別区)…
Where a director, accounting advisor or company auditor has engaged in misconduct or a serious violation of laws or the…
住宅宿泊事業法
Private lodging intermediaries (住宅宿泊仲介業者): businesses other than travel agents under the Travel Agency Act (旅行業法), a sep…
住民基本台帳法
The residents (住民) of each municipality, whose address (住所) means the same as a resident's address under Article 10(1) o…
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
Individual workers and employers (事業主) in a dispute over working conditions or other matters of the labor relationship:…
The Act has no penalties, and no government office enforces it. It works by stating what holds between the parties: a le…
健康保険法
Anyone employed at an applicable place of business (適用事業所) is an insured person (被保険者), unless the Act excludes them. An…
児童手当法
Receiving the allowance by deception or other wrongful means is punishable by imprisonment (拘禁刑) of up to 3 years or a f…
公益通報者保護法
Whistleblowers: workers, and those who were within the year before the report, about the business that employs or employ…
最低賃金法
Workers: anyone employed by a business or office and paid wages, whatever the kind of work, as Article 9 of the Labor St…
出入国管理及び難民認定法
Organisations that employ Specified Skilled Workers must meet criteria a Ministry of Justice Order sets, carry out suppo…
出入国管理及び難民認定法別表第一の二の表の特定技能の項の下欄に規定する産業上の分野等を定める省令
Someone already working on Specified Skilled Worker in a field that an amendment of this Order in 2022 or in 2024 merged…
出入国管理及び難民認定法別表第一の二の表の高度専門職の項の下欄の基準を定める省令
Foreign nationals seeking Highly Skilled Professional (i): on landing with that status, on a change of status, an extens…
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
Article 14 sets no penalties of its own: it lets supervising organizations run a placement business that the Employment…
The powers of the Minister of Justice under the Act that Article 26 lists are delegated to the Commissioner of the Immig…
Organizations that accept foreign residents: one accepting mid- to long-term residents on Professor, Highly Skilled Prof…
出入国管理及び難民認定法等の一部を改正する法律の施行に伴う関係政令の整備等及び経過措置に関する政令
Article 19-15-2, paragraph (12) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act, and Article 16-2, paragraph (16)…
Anyone who commits certain crimes outside Japan: insurrection and foreign aggression, counterfeiting currency in circula…
労働保険の保険料の徴収等に関する法律
Once it has demanded payment, the government collects a late-payment charge (延滞金) on the premium at 14.6% a year — 7.3%…
労働基準法
The Act and the orders made under it apply to the national government, prefectures, municipalities and bodies equivalent…
Its duties are enforced through the Labor Standards Act. For example, failing to set out the working conditions listed i…
労働契約法
Seafarers covered by the Mariners Act: Article 12 and the chapter on fixed-term contracts do not apply to them, and seve…
Employers (事業者): anyone carrying on a business who employs workers. They must not only meet the Act's minimum standards…
労働審判法
A person with an interest in the outcome of the procedure, who may join it with the tribunal's permission, and whom the…
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
Employers (事業主). Beyond their duties on age in recruitment, the two reports and conduct resting on a superior position,…
労働組合法
Workers of the same kind at a workplace, or in an area, who are not parties to a collective agreement but are brought un…
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
Businesses that send workers they employ to work under another's direction and for them (労働者派遣事業): to run one they need…
A court action to set aside a decision on benefits can be brought only after the examiner has decided the request for re…
The Central Labour Relations Commission must do its utmost to settle a case under emergency adjustment, ahead of all its…
Where a doctor comes to fall under one of the grounds on which a licence may be refused, or has acted in a way that dama…
Prefectures, each of which sets a medical care plan (医療計画) for its area, covering among other things emergency, disaster…
Applicable places of business (適用事業所): a place of business or office in one of the industries Article 6 lists — among th…
Managers (管理者): a dealer or market owner must appoint one for each place of business or market, responsible for running…
国家賠償法
Public employees who exercise public authority: where the State or public entity has paid compensation under Article 1(1…
国民の祝日に関する法律
A Cabinet Order (政令) sets the date of National Foundation Commemoration Day (建国記念の日). The amending Act that wrote the da…
Everyone with an address (住所) in a prefecture is insured under the national health insurance that prefecture runs with i…
国民年金法
Voluntary insured persons (任意加入被保険者): people who are not category 2 or 3 can join by applying to the Minister if they li…
People other than the taxpayer, among them those who paid or were paid by the taxpayer, can be questioned in a tax inqui…
The Minister of Justice may send a written demand (催告) to choose a nationality to a Japanese citizen who holds a foreign…
This Ministry of Justice Order was made under Articles 31(5), 32(3) and 33(2) of the Act for Establishment of the Minist…
地方税法
A residents' taxpayer with no address, residence, office, business premises or dormitory-type facility (寮等) in the munic…
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 can order a supervising organization that has broken this Act or an immigration or labour law to…
女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律
Approved employer organizations for small and medium-sized enterprises (承認中小事業主団体): cooperatives and general incorporate…
学校教育法
Principals and teachers: no one may be one who has been sentenced to imprisonment (拘禁刑) or heavier; whose teaching certi…
宅地建物取引業法
The Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or the governor who granted a broker's licence may give it i…
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…
性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律
Anyone, of any nationality, who commits one of the Act's offences in Japan, or on board a Japanese ship or aircraft outs…
People who must notify other events: for a marriage, divorce or adoption by notification, the people entering into it —…
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…
This Ministerial Order (省令) sets no penalties of its own; they are in the Income Tax Act. Under Article 242 of the Act,…
旅券法
The Minister for Foreign Affairs or a consular officer may refuse to issue an ordinary passport, or to add a destination…
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…
Local governments (地方公共団体) have the power to manage their property, administer their affairs and carry out administratio…
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
Not filing a special income tax for reconstruction return by its deadline without good reason — a non-resident's return…
Employers (事業主): each is to try to improve its employment environment so its workers can balance work and family life (f…
Creditors (債権者) who petition to enforce a claim on a title of obligation, and holders of a security interest (担保権) — a s…
Witnesses and experts: the court can examine anyone as a witness unless the law provides otherwise, and must have them t…
民事調停法
Where it finds it especially necessary for the mediation, the committee may, on a party's petition, order the other part…
Every person, from birth: foreign nationals enjoy private rights (私権) unless laws, regulations or a treaty prohibit it,…
法の適用に関する通則法
Consumers and the businesses that contract with them, and workers and their employers under a labor contract, for whom A…
Domestic corporations (内国法人) — corporations with their head or main office in Japan — on their income for each business…
Anyone, not only a business, who takes foreign goods out of a bonded area: they owe the tax on taxable goods and must de…
消費者契約法
Businesses, under a duty to endeavour (努めなければならない): to make their contract terms clear and easy for consumers to underst…
The prefectural governor decides the permits, and must first hear a council or other collegial body set up under Article…
特定受託事業者に係る取引の適正化等に関する法律
Any business that entrusts work to such a contractor (業務委託事業者), including one with no employees of its own: it must stat…
特定商取引に関する法律
Where a service a Cabinet Order names, because it is usually performed in full straight after the contract, is sold door…
特定在留カードの交付の申請に関する規則
Where this Order lets someone other than the resident submit an application at a regional immigration services bureau, s…
特定在留カードの様式その他特定在留カードに関し必要な事項を定める命令
Article 19-15-5 of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act leaves the form of the specified residence card,…
特定電子メールの送信の適正化等に関する法律
Businesses that commission others to send their email (送信委託者) — for-profit bodies and individuals in business. Consent a…
犯罪による収益の移転防止に関する法律
Specified businesses (特定事業者) in finance: banks and other deposit-taking institutions such as shinkin banks, labour banks…
Citizens (国民) in poverty. The Act calls anyone in a state of needing assistance, whether or not they receive it yet, a p…
The district tax office director (税務署長) reassesses (更正) a return whose figures are wrong and determines (決定) the tax of…
短時間労働者及び有期雇用労働者の雇用管理の改善等に関する法律
Fixed-term workers (有期雇用労働者): workers who have a labor contract with a fixed term with an employer. The definition sets…
The estate of a deceased person (相続財産) and trust property (信託財産) can be put into bankruptcy too: an estate where the dec…
For the time being (当分の間), a person can take their assets out as a lump-sum withdrawal payment (脱退一時金), in an amount a C…
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…
Those who owe the other taxes Article 1 names — among them consumption tax, registration and license tax, liquor tax, to…
Everyone choosing an occupation, and job seekers, people answering recruitment and supplied workers, whose free choice,…
育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律
Workers on fixed-term contracts (期間を定めて雇用される者) can apply for childcare leave only if it is not clear that their contract…
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
Articles 2 to 5 each state a crime and its punishment, and Article 6 sets heavier punishments for those crimes; the gene…
Anyone who puts a car into use for their own benefit, who is liable for the death or injury its operation causes unless…
著作権法
Authors of the works the Act protects: works of Japanese nationals (corporations set up under Japanese law or with their…
Local governments (地方公共団体), which must set up a body attached to their executive organs to handle the matters this Act g…
An injunction action (差止めの訴え) may be brought only where making the disposition or determination is likely to cause serio…
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
Everyone: the bans on asking someone outside one's household for their number, on providing specific personal informatio…
Administrative agencies (行政庁) when they decide applications and make adverse dispositions, and the national administrati…
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
Whatever their capital, a corporation regularly employing more than 300 people is covered when it gives manufacturing, r…
賃金の支払の確保等に関する法律
Workers as Article 9 of the Labor Standards Act defines them — people employed in a business and paid wages — except peo…
資金決済に関する法律
Funds transfer service providers (資金移動業者): businesses other than banks that carry on funds transfer transactions (為替取引),…
道路交通法
Users of vehicles (使用者), such as businesses whose staff drive for work: they are to try to make their drivers follow the…
道路運送車両法
Penalties are in Chapter 8 (Articles 106 to 113). Using on roads a vehicle that is not registered, or that has no valid…
A special-case facility occupant (特例施設占有者) may sell an item it keeps that may perish or be damaged or is too costly to k…
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
Partners who share a principal home in a dating relationship (生活の本拠を共にする交際), unless they do not live a shared life like…
Submitting a securities registration statement or annual securities report with a false statement on a material matter,…
銀行法
Banks — companies licensed under Article 4 to carry on banking — and anyone who carries on banking, or takes deposits as…
障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律
In a dispute between a worker with a disability and an employer over the rules in Articles 34, 35, 36-2 and 36-3, either…
雇用の分野における男女の均等な機会及び待遇の確保等に関する法律
For seafarers (船員), and people seeking to become seafarers, as the Mariners' Employment Security Act (船員職業安定法), a separa…
Workers employed in an undertaking that employs workers (a covered undertaking, 適用事業) are insured persons (被保険者), apart…
電気工事士法
Doing electrical work that Article 3 reserves to Class 1 electricians, to Class 1 and Class 2 electricians, or to qualif…
高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律
This Act's penalty provisions (Articles 55 to 57) do not cover failing to take the measures to keep workers until 65. In…
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…