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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
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
On the same conditions, the Prefectural Public Safety Commission (都道府県公安委員会) may, at the victim's request or on its own…
Registered holders of ownership, who must apply to register a change of their name or address within two years of it; wh…
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 a representative, agent, employee or other worker of a corporation or individual commits certain of these offences…
The right to benefits cannot be transferred, pledged or seized, and no tax or other public charge is levied on what is p…
Holders of 3% of the voting rights for six months can require the directors, stating the purpose (an item they can vote…
住宅宿泊事業法
Registration as a manager or an intermediary must be refused if the application or its attachments are false, or leave o…
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:…
For a land lease (借地権) set before this Act came into force (施行), renewal, extension of the term by rebuilding after the…
健康保険法
Employers at applicable places of business must report to the insurer when employees gain or lose coverage and what they…
児童手当法
An individual receiving it as a parent or other general recipient must report to the mayor, as a Cabinet Office Order (内…
公益通報者保護法
Administrative bodies (行政機関) — national bodies such as the Cabinet Office, the Digital Agency and the ministries and age…
最低賃金法
Employers — the business owner, its managers and anyone acting for the owner on matters concerning its workers, as Artic…
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
Through Article 27(2) of the Technical Intern Training Act, the notice of the range of job categories handled goes to th…
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
A special permanent resident whose registration certificate is still treated as their special permanent resident certifi…
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
Before the changeover, when a foreign national registered under the former Alien Registration Act made, in the month bef…
When a mid- to long-term resident (中長期在留者) reports their place of residence, or a move, at the municipal office, the may…
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
A foreign national other than a crew member (乗員) who holds a passport issued by the competent authority of a region a Ca…
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)…
A sentence of imprisonment (拘禁刑) of 3 years or less, or a fine of 500,000 yen or less, may be suspended in full (刑の全部の執行…
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
Employers: the business owner, those managing the business, and anyone acting for the owner on matters concerning its wo…
Its duties are enforced through the Labor Standards Act. For example, failing to set out the working conditions listed i…
Workers as the Labor Standards Act defines them in Article 9 — anyone employed at a business or office and paid wages, w…
労働審判法
Individual workers and employers (事業主) in a civil dispute over whether a labor contract exists or another matter of labo…
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
When the Minister of Justice or the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency (出入国在留管理庁長官) asks, to confirm a fore…
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
During the dispatched work, a client also carries employer duties under the Labor Standards Act (労働基準法), but only for th…
The government runs the insurance and pays benefits on a claim (請求) by the worker, the survivor or whoever held the fune…
A person whose licence was revoked may be granted a new licence once the reason for revocation no longer applies or late…
Prefectures, each of which sets a medical care plan (医療計画) for its area, covering among other things emergency, disaster…
Insured persons, pensioners and their households: an insured person must notify the Minister, or tell the employer, of w…
Online sellers (特定古物商): a dealer that will show goods online and take orders by a means a National Public Safety Commiss…
国家賠償法
Public employees who exercise public authority: where the State or public entity has paid compensation under Article 1(1…
The head of household (世帯主) must notify the municipality, as a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order provides, wh…
国民年金法
Where needed for a decision on insured status or contributions, the Minister may order insured persons to hand in docume…
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 (法務大臣) decides whether to permit naturalization and receives the notifications by which Japanese…
The Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency decides where the senior immigration inspectors (統括審査官, up to 421) a…
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
Hosts must notify the start of training without delay, keep the records an order of the competent ministers lists at the…
女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律
On its application, a certified employer may be given a higher certification (特例認定) where it meets criteria an Order of…
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
People who occupy a unit without owning it (占有者): they must not act against the owners' common interest, must keep the s…
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
The filming and image-sending offences do not stop the Penal Code's crimes of non-consensual indecency (不同意わいせつ, Article…
Notifications concerning foreign nationals: a notification about a foreign national must be made at the place where the…
所得税法
A person with business, property-letting or timber income may file blue returns with the director's approval, and once a…
Individuals who file a final tax return or another return, application or notice under the Income Tax Act — non-resident…
旅券法
The Minister for Foreign Affairs or a consular officer may refuse to issue an ordinary passport, or to add a destination…
People who stay or want to stay at a facility: they must give their register details when the operator asks, and coopera…
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
Special permanent residents (特別永住者): those of that group who, when this Act came into force, were staying in Japan under…
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令
The work this Order gives municipalities in Articles 1, 2(1) and 4 to 6 — recording the date of issue, telling the Commi…
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
A special permanent resident who leaves Japan on the deemed re-entry permission (みなし再入国許可) states the intention to come…
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…
Everyone: the people (国民) must deepen their interest in and understanding of these measures and cooperate with the natio…
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…
Anyone who sues or is sued in a civil suit (民事訴訟) before a Japanese court: this Code governs the procedure, except where…
民事調停法
Civil mediation commissioners (民事調停委員), who serve part-time under rules on appointment and dismissal the Supreme Court (…
Most of the Code states rights and duties between private parties, which a party enforces through the courts: an obligee…
法の適用に関する通則法
The form (方式) of a consumer contract has rules of its own. Where a law other than that of the consumer's habitual reside…
Foreign corporations (外国法人) — any corporation other than a domestic one — pay the tax on each business year's income on…
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
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…
Offering a hot spring for public bathing or drinking without permission, making a major change to drilling or extraction…
特定受託事業者に係る取引の適正化等に関する法律
Where a specified entrusting business operator passes on to a contractor work another business entrusted to it, and has…
特定商取引に関する法律
Failing to give the required documents, or giving incomplete or false ones, and breaking an instruction are punishable b…
特定在留カードの交付の申請に関する規則
A card applied for through the municipal office is handed over through the mayor at the office of the municipality where…
特定電子メールの送信の適正化等に関する法律
Sending specified electronic mail with false sender information is a crime, punishable by imprisonment (拘禁刑) of up to on…
特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律
Breaking the Minister's order is punishable by imprisonment (拘禁刑) of up to one year or a fine of up to 1,000,000 yen. Fa…
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…
The State, prefectures, cities, towns and villages, which pay its costs: the municipality or prefecture whose head gives…
When someone dies, the Minister of Justice passes the death registration information to the Commissioner of the National…
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
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets guidelines (指針) for carrying out the measures of Articles 6 to 14 and th…
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…
Such an institution must act faithfully for participants, and must not, among other things, promise to bear their losses…
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…
Its penalties stand beside the measures they back — among them Article 42-3 for income tax, Article 70-13 for inheritanc…
Where an employer posting a job, or a person taking supplied workers, does not state working conditions or changes to th…
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
A dispute between a worker and the employer over those matters or over the measures against harassment is handled under…
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
Driving without a licence (無免許運転) means driving a motor vehicle on a road without the licence it requires, including whi…
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
Broadcasters and cablecasters that broadcast or cablecast commercial phonograms must pay secondary use fees (二次使用料) to t…
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
People recorded in a municipality's basic resident register, who are given an individual number, foreign residents (外国人住…
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
Failing to state the terms, to hand over the paper copy asked for, or to make and keep the records, or making false reco…
賃金の支払の確保等に関する法律
A fine of up to 100,000 yen can be imposed for failing to report, reporting falsely, failing to submit documents or subm…
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
A police officer who finds a driver driving without a licence, after drinking, while unfit through tiredness, illness or…
道路運送車両法
Owners (所有者) of motor vehicles other than light motor vehicles, special small motor vehicles and two-wheeled small-sized…
A finder who has asked for a dog or cat to be taken in under Article 35(3) of the Act on Welfare and Management of Anima…
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
A decision on a petition can be challenged by an immediate appeal (即時抗告), but the appeal does not suspend the order. The…
Submitting a securities registration statement or annual securities report with a false statement on a material matter,…
銀行法
Foreign banks that want to do banking in Japan: each must choose one main branch and obtain the same licence, after whic…
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…
People whose scheduled working hours are under 20 a week, except workers 65 or over who have applied to be insured under…
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
A Silver Human Resources Center may, by notifying the Minister as a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order provide…
高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律
An insured person must notify the association of becoming and ceasing to be insured and of other matters, as a Ministry…