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内閣
The body that holds executive power: the Prime Minister and the other Ministers of State (Articles 65 and 66). It administers the law, conducts foreign affairs, prepares the budget…
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 65, 66, 69, 73 and Wikipedia: Cabinet of Japan as a reference.
内閣総理大臣
The head of the Cabinet. Designated by the Diet from among its own members, and appointed by the Emperor on that designation (Articles 67 and 6). The Prime Minister appoints and ma…
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 6, 67, 68, 75 and Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan as a reference.
政令
Rules made by the Cabinet to carry out the Constitution and Acts. A Cabinet Order cannot impose duties, restrict rights or set penalties unless an Act delegates that to it.
Written by AI using Constitution, Art. 73 and Wikipedia: 政令 as a reference.
天皇
The symbol of the State and of the unity of the people, holding that position by the will of the people (Article 1). The Emperor performs only the acts in matters of state the Cons…
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 1, 3, 4, 6, 7 and Wikipedia: Emperor of Japan as a reference.
国会
Japan's parliament, and under Article 41 the only body that can make an Act (法律). It has two chambers, the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors, both made up of el…
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 41, 42, 43 and Wikipedia: National Diet as a reference.
衆議院
The lower of the Diet's two chambers (Article 42). Its members serve four years, and the term ends early whenever the House is dissolved (Article 45) — which is the difference that…
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 42, 45, 59, 60, 61, 67 and Wikipedia: House of Representatives (Japan) as a reference.
参議院
The upper of the Diet's two chambers (Article 42). Its members serve six years, half of them elected every three years, and it is never dissolved (Article 46) — so it always has si…
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 42, 46, 54 and Wikipedia: House of Councillors (Japan) as a reference.
国務大臣
A member of the Cabinet other than the Prime Minister (Article 66, paragraph (1)). All of them must be civilians, and a majority must be members of the Diet; the Prime Minister app…
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 66, 68, 75, 99 and 国家行政組織法, Art. 5 as a reference.
情報公開・個人情報保護審査会
A board set up in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (総務省) to examine a request for review (審査請求) when the body that must decide it consults the board under the Ac…
Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Information Disclosure and Personal Information Protection Review Board, Arts. 2, 3, 4, 9, 16 and Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs, Art. 19 as a reference.
公正取引委員会
The body the Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade (独占禁止法, the Antimonopoly Act) sets up to achieve that Act's purpose — among other things, to…
Written by AI using Antimonopoly Act, Arts. 1, 27, 28, 29 and Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations, Art. 36 as a reference.
金融庁長官
The head of the Financial Services Agency (金融庁), which the Act for Establishment of the Financial Services Agency (金融庁設置法) sets up as an external agency (外局) of the Cabinet Office…
Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Financial Services Agency, Arts. 2, 3 and Banking Act, Art. 59 as a reference.
国家公安委員会
A commission placed under the Prime Minister's jurisdiction by the Police Act (警察法) (Police Act, Article 4, paragraph (1)), made up of a chairperson, who is a Minister of State (国務…
Written by AI using Police Act, Arts. 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 15 and Secondhand Goods Business Act, Arts. 21-5, 27 as a reference.
消費者委員会
A commission placed in the Cabinet Office (内閣府) (Act for Establishment of the Consumer Affairs Agency and the Consumer Commission, Article 6, paragraph (1)), of no more than ten me…
Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Consumer Affairs Agency and the Consumer Commission, Arts. 6, 7, 9, 10, Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations, Arts. 3, 6 and Act on Specified Commercial Transactions, Art. 64 as a reference.
個人情報保護委員会規則
Rules the Personal Information Protection Commission (個人情報保護委員会) makes on the matters in its charge, to carry out an Act or a Cabinet Order (政令) or under a special delegation from…
Written by AI using Act on the Protection of Personal Information, Arts. 130, 132, 133, 134, 145 and Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures, Art. 2 as a reference.
個人情報保護委員会
The commission the Act on the Protection of Personal Information sets up under Article 49, paragraph (3) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office (内閣府設置法), under the Prim…
Written by AI using Act on the Protection of Personal Information, Arts. 130, 132, 133, 134, 145, 146, 147, 148 and Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures, Art. 2 as a reference.
有価証券
Securities as this Act defines them: the instruments listed in Article 2, paragraph (1), among them national government and local government bonds, corporate bonds, share certificates and share option certificates, preferred equity investment certificates, beneficiary certificates of investment trusts and other trusts, investment securities, certain promissory notes, mortgage securities, option certificates and depositary receipts, foreign instruments of the same nature, and other instruments a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.
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銀行
A person that carries on banking (銀行業) under a licence from the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣) under Article 4, paragraph (1).
第四条第一項の内閣総理大臣の免許を受けて銀行業を営む者
A person registered by the Prime Minister under Article 29 to carry on financial instruments business (金融商品取引業).
第二十九条の規定により内閣総理大臣の登録を受けた者
発行者
A person who issues or intends to issue securities, or for securities a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) specifies, the person it specifies; for rights treated as securities under Article 2, paragraph (2), the person a Cabinet Office Order specifies for each kind of right is treated as issuing them, at the time it specifies.
有価証券を発行し、又は発行しようとする者（内閣府令で定める有価証券については、内閣府令で定める者）
A membership corporation (金融商品会員制法人) or stock company (株式会社) licensed by the Prime Minister under Article 80, paragraph (1) to open a financial instruments market (金融商品市場).
第八十条第一項の規定により内閣総理大臣の免許を受けて金融商品市場を開設する金融商品会員制法人又は株式会社
銀行持株会社
A holding company (持株会社) that has a bank as its subsidiary and was established with, or has obtained, the Prime Minister's (内閣総理大臣) authorization under Article 52-17, paragraph (1) or the proviso to paragraph (3).
銀行を子会社とする持株会社であつて、第五十二条の十七第一項の認可を受けて設立され、又は同項若しくは同条第三項ただし書の認可を受けているもの
A consumer organization (消費者団体) that is a corporation and that the Prime Minister has certified under Article 13 as fit to exercise this Act's right to demand an injunction (差止請求権) in the interest of consumers at large.
…昭和四十三年法律第七十八号）第八条の消費者団体をいう。以下同じ。）として第十三条の定めるところにより内閣総理大臣の認定を受けた者
A person registered by the Prime Minister under Article 37 to carry on funds transfer services (資金移動業).
第三十七条の登録を受けた者
In this Act, the ministers that Article 67, paragraph (1) makes responsible, matter by matter: always the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣) and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (経済産業大臣); for matters concerning sellers, service providers, multilevel marketing operators, business opportunity sellers and door-to-door buyers, and for designated corporations (指定法人) and consultations under Article 64, paragraph (1), also the minister in charge of distributing the goods concerned or of the business that provides the facilities or services concerned; and for email advertising contractors, the door-to-door and mail order sales associations and consultations under Article 64, paragraph (2), those two alone.
次のとおり
In this Act, an order (命令) issued jointly by the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣) and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (経済産業大臣), except that the orders Article 61, paragraph (1) refers to, on designating corporations (指定法人), are issued by the ministers Article 67, paragraph (1), item (v) names as responsible for designated corporations.
内閣総理大臣及び経済産業大臣が共同で発する命令とする。ただし、第六十一条第一項に規定する主務省令については、第一項第五号に定める主務大臣の発する命令
児童
A person up to the first 31 March on or after the day they turn 18 who has an address (住所) in Japan, or who has none in Japan for study abroad or another reason set by Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令).
十八歳に達する日以後の最初の三月三十一日までの間にある者であつて、日本国内に住所を有するもの又は留学その他の内閣府令で定める理由により日本国内に住所を有しないもの
A person registered by the Prime Minister under Article 66 to carry on financial instruments intermediary service (金融商品仲介業).
第六十六条の規定により内閣総理大臣の登録を受けた者
A person carrying on financial instruments obligation assumption service (金融商品債務引受業) under a licence from the Prime Minister under Article 156-2 or an approval under Article 156-19, paragraph (1).
第百五十六条の二又は第百五十六条の十九第一項の規定により内閣総理大臣の免許又は承認を受けて金融商品債務引受業を行う者
電子決済手段等取引業
Carrying on as a business any of the acts listed in Article 2, paragraph (10): buying, selling or exchanging electronic payment instruments (電子決済手段); acting as intermediary, broker or agent in those deals; managing electronic payment instruments for others, apart from kinds a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) exempts as posing little risk to users; or, entrusted by a funds transfer service provider (資金移動業者), agreeing with users who have an ongoing funds transfer contract with it to move or receive funds electronically, and raising or lowering the amount they can claim from that provider accordingly, on its behalf.
次に掲げる行為のいずれかを業として行うこと
A contract to accept specified deposits, etc. (特定預金等): deposits or installment savings, etc. (定期積金等) that a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) specifies as carrying a risk of loss of principal from changes in interest rates, currency values, prices on a financial instruments market or other indicators; parts of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act apply to a bank's conclusion of such contracts.
…ける相場その他の指標に係る変動によりその元本について損失が生ずるおそれがある預金又は定期積金等として内閣府令で定めるものをいう。）の受入れを内容とする契約
A person the Prime Minister has designated under Article 52-62, paragraph (1) to carry out dispute resolution services (紛争解決等業務).
第五十二条の六十二第一項の規定による指定を受けた者
A person registered under Article 52-60-3 that carries on electronic payment handling services (電子決済等取扱業).
第五十二条の六十の三の登録を受けて電子決済等取扱業を営む者
A person registered by the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣) under Article 62-3 to carry on electronic payment instruments services (電子決済手段等取引業), which no one without that registration may carry on.
第六十二条の三の登録を受けた者
A person registered by the Prime Minister under Article 63-2 to carry on cryptoasset exchange services (暗号資産交換業).
第六十三条の二の登録を受けた者
A stock company that has as its subsidiary company (子会社) a stock company opening a financial instruments exchange market (株式会社金融商品取引所), and that was incorporated with, or has received, the Prime Minister's authorization under Article 106-10, paragraph (1) or the proviso to paragraph (3) of that Article.
…第八十七条の三第三項に規定する子会社をいう。）とする株式会社であつて、第百六条の十第一項の規定により内閣総理大臣の認可を受けて設立され、又は同項若しくは同条第三項ただし書の規定により内閣総理大臣の認可を受けているもの