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review officer

審理員(しんりいん)

The review officer (審理員) of Article 11, paragraph (2) of the Administrative Complaint Review Act — the person a reviewing agency designates under Article 9, paragraph (1) of that Act to conduct the review proceedings — whom Article 106, paragraph (2) replaces with the reviewing agency (審査庁) itself in a request for review (審査請求) of a decision on disclosure, correction or ceasing to use personal information, or of a failure to act on such a request, made to an organ of a local government (地方公共団体の機関) or a local incorporated administrative agency (地方独立行政法人).

reviewing agency

審査庁(しんさちょう)

In the Administrative Complaint Review Act as Article 31, paragraph (1) applies it to a request for examination (審査の申立て) under Article 26, paragraph (1), the head of the public prosecutors office (検察庁の長) with which the request was filed, who conducts the review proceedings in place of the review officer (審理員) of that Act.

competent collection agency

徴収の所轄庁(ちょうしゅうのしょかつちょう)

In Article 105, the regional commissioner (国税局長), tax office director (税務署長) or customs director (税関長) with power under Articles 43 and 44 to collect the tax in dispute, whom the President of the National Tax Tribunal may ask to hold off collection or delinquent tax procedures while a request for reconsideration is examined.

oral opinion statement

口頭意見陳述(こうとういけんちんじゅつ)

The statement of opinion on the case that a person requesting review (審査請求人) or an intervenor (参加人) makes orally, on their request under Article 31, paragraph (1), on a date and at a place the review officer (審理員) sets, with all the persons concerned with the proceedings (審理関係人) called to attend.

written counterargument

反論書(はんろんしょ)

A written counterargument that the person requesting review (審査請求人) may submit against what is stated in the written explanation (弁明書) sent to them under Article 29, paragraph (5).

petitioner

申立人(もうしたてにん)

In Article 31 and Article 41, paragraph (2), item (ii), the person requesting review (審査請求人) or the intervenor (参加人) who has asked to state their opinion on the case orally to the review officer (審理員).

written statement of allegations

主張書面(しゅちょうしょめん)

In the subsection on the Board's (審査会) procedure (Chapter 5, Section 1, Subsection 2), a written statement of their allegations that the Administrative Complaint Review Board (行政不服審査会) may ask the person requesting review (審査請求人), an intervenor (参加人) or the reviewing agency (審査庁) that consulted it to submit.

persons concerned with the review

審査関係人(しんさかんけいにん)

In the subsection on the Board's (審査会) procedure (Chapter 5, Section 1, Subsection 2), the person requesting review (審査請求人), any intervenor (参加人) and the reviewing agency (審査庁) that consulted the Administrative Complaint Review Board (行政不服審査会) under Article 43, paragraph (1), taken together.

written statement

申述書(しんじゅつしょ)

A document in which a person requesting administrative review (審査請求) of a decision listed in Article 61-2-12, paragraph (1) — such as a refusal to recognise them as a refugee or as a person eligible for complementary protection, the revocation of that recognition, or a failure to act on their application — sets out their opinion and other arguments against it; in these reviews it takes the place of the written counterargument (反論書) of the Administrative Complaint Review Act.

written rebuttal

反論書(はんろんしょ)

A document in which a requester for review (審査請求人) sets out a rebuttal of what is stated in the written answer (答弁書) from the authority that made the original disposition (原処分庁), sent to them under Article 93, paragraph (3).

Immigration Control Act

入管法(にゅうかんほう)

Short name for the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act, used in the wording this paragraph substitutes into the Administrative Complaint Review Act when that Act is applied to a request for review (審査請求) of a refugee or complementary protection decision under Article 61-2-12, paragraph (1).

Immigration Control Act

入管法(にゅうかんほう)

Short name for the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act, which this Cabinet Order (政令) coins in the wording that the tables in Articles 14 to 22 put into the Administrative Complaint Review Act and into the Cabinet Order (政令) enforcing that Act, and in paragraph (2) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Cabinet Order No. 27 of 2025.

written statement

申述書(しんじゅつしょ)

The document in which a person requesting administrative review (審査請求) of a disposition or failure to act listed in Article 61-2-12, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — such as a refusal to recognise them as a refugee or as a person eligible for complementary protection, or the revocation of that recognition — sets out their opinion and other arguments against it, in place of the written counterargument (反論書) of Article 30, paragraph (1) of the Administrative Complaint Review Act; Article 22, paragraph (2) of this Cabinet Order (政令) puts it in that written counterargument's place in the Cabinet Order (政令) enforcing that Act (Cabinet Order No. 391 of 2015).

determination, etc.

裁決等(さいけつとう)

A ruling (裁決) on a request for review (審査請求) of a reassessment, determination or assessment (including the decisions under Article 59, paragraph 2, Article 72-54, paragraph 5 or Article 321-15, paragraph 2 and the ruling under Article 321-15, paragraph 7), or a judgment in a lawsuit about one.

intervenor's written opinion

参加人意見書(さんかにんいけんしょ)

In Article 95 and Article 97-4, paragraph (2), item (i)(c), a written statement of opinion on a request for review (審査請求) that an intervenor (参加人) in it may submit, within any period the presiding tribunal examiner (担当審判官) sets.

oral statement of opinion

口頭意見陳述(こうとういけんちんじゅつ)

A statement of opinion on the case made orally, at their request, by a requester for review (審査請求人) or an intervenor (参加人), which the presiding tribunal examiner (担当審判官) must give them the chance to make under Article 95-2, paragraph (1).

review officer

審理員(しんりいん)

The review officer (審理員) of Article 11, paragraph (2) of the Administrative Complaint Review Act — the person a reviewing agency designates under Article 9, paragraph (1) of that Act to conduct the review proceedings — whom Article 31, paragraph (1), for a request for examination (審査の申立て) under Article 26, paragraph (1), replaces with the head of the public prosecutors office (検察庁の長) with which the request was filed.

administrative determination, etc.

裁決等(さいけつとう)

In Article 85, a determination (裁決), decision (決定) or other disposition (処分) on a request for review (審査請求), a request for re-investigation (再調査の請求), a request for re-examination (再審査請求) or an appeal under any other law or regulation (法令).

reviewing agency

審査庁(しんさちょう)

The administrative authority (行政庁) with which a request for review (審査請求) of a decision on disclosure or non-disclosure (開示決定等), or of a failure to act on a request for disclosure (開示請求), has been filed under Article 4 of the Administrative Complaint Review Act or a Cabinet Order (政令) under Article 20(2) of this Act, including one that took the case over under Article 14 of that Act when the power to decide it passed to it through a change in the law.

written counterargument

反論書(はんろんしょ)

The written counterargument (反論書) that, under Article 30, paragraph (1) of the Administrative Complaint Review Act, answers what is stated in the written explanation (弁明書) sent under Article 29, paragraph (5) of that Act; for requests for administrative review (審査請求) under Article 61-2-12 of this Act it is replaced by a written statement (申述書).