Search
検索
Searched the Japanese text of the laws as today. Type English to search the English translations instead.
Terms
改正
A change to a law's text. It is made by a separate law or order — the amending act — usually written as instructions to replace, delete or add words. An Act amending part of anothe…
Written by AI using Upper House Legislative Bureau: 改め文 and Wikipedia: 改め文方式 as a reference.
憲法
The highest law in Japan. Every Act, Cabinet Order and Ministerial Order has to conform to it, and anything in conflict with it has no legal force. It is also the hardest law to ch…
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 96, 98, e-Gov: 日本国憲法 and its revision history and Wikipedia: Constitution of Japan as a reference.
法律としての効力を有する命令
Some rules made during the Allied occupation were issued as Cabinet Orders, as orders implementing Japan's acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, and an Act passed in 1952 gave the…
Written by AI using Act No. 126 of 1952, Art. 4, e-Gov: 出入国管理及び難民認定法 and its revision history and Wikipedia (Japanese): 出入国管理及び難民認定法 as a reference.
未施行
A law or amendment that has been promulgated but whose enforcement date has not arrived. The text in force today does not include it yet. It is due to change the text on that date,…
Written by AI using Upper House Legislative Bureau: 公布後施行前の法律の改廃 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.
拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term…
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.
懲役
A punishment the Penal Code had until Act No. 67 of 2022 came into force: being held in a penal institution (刑事施設) and made to do prescribed work, for life or for a fixed term of o…
Written by AI using Penal Code, former Art. 12, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Arts. 441, 443 as a reference.
禁錮
A punishment the Penal Code had until Act No. 67 of 2022 came into force: being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years, witho…
Written by AI using Penal Code, former Arts. 12, 13, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Arts. 441, 443 as a reference.
附則
The part after a law's main provisions (本則) that deals with matters incidental to them: when the law takes effect, how the change from old rules to new ones is handled, and sometim…
Written by AI using Upper House Legislative Bureau: 見落とせない附則 and Wikipedia: 附則 as a reference.
制定文
A sentence at the very top of a law, before its first article, saying what enacting it does. The Corporation Tax Act's (法人税法) reads 「法人税法（昭和二十二年法律第二十八号）の全部を改正する。」 — this Act replac…
Written by AI using e-Gov: 法人税法 and Wikipedia: 日本の法令の基本形式 as a reference.
繰下げ・繰上げ
An amending law usually leaves every article's number alone: a new article takes a branch number such as Article 32-2, and a repealed one leaves 削除 (Deleted) at its number. Sometim…
Written by AI using Upper House Legislative Bureau: 条の枝番号と削除 and Act on Land and Building Leases, as amended by Act No. 53 of 2023 as a reference.
旧題名
The title (題名) a law had before an amending Act renamed it. A renamed law is the same law, with the same law number: what changes is what it is called. Other laws, official guidanc…
Written by AI using e-Gov law data: 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 (revisions) as a reference.
改正法
Short name, used in this Ministerial Order (省令) from Article 11 on, for the 2009 Act (Act No. 79 of 2009) amending the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act and the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan, which came into effect on 9 July 2012; this Ministerial Order was made for that Act's coming into effect.
改正法
Short name, used in this Cabinet Order (政令) from Article 16 on, for the 2009 Act (Act No. 79 of 2009) amending the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act and the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan, which came into effect on 9 July 2012; this Cabinet Order was made for that Act's coming into effect.
9 July 2012, the day the 2009 Act (Act No. 79 of 2009) amending the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act and the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan came into effect.
9 July 2012, the day the 2009 Act (Act No. 79 of 2009) amending the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act and the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan came into effect.
改正法
Short name for the Act Partially Amending the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act, etc. (Act No. 59 of 2024), which this Cabinet Order (政令) was made to implement.
改正法
Short name for the Act Partially Amending the Health Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 83 of 2006).
改正法
In Article 52, paragraph (2), item (ii), short name for the 2011 Act partially amending the Income Tax Act and other laws to build a tax system suited to changes in the structure of the economy and society (Act No. 114 of 2011).
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 63 of 2013, the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as it stood before Article 1 of that Act amended it.
第一条の規定による改正前の厚生年金保険法
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 63 of 2013, the Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act as it stood before Article 2 of Act No. 63 of 2013 amended it.
第二条の規定による改正前の確定給付企業年金法
改正後確定給付企業年金法
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 63 of 2013, the Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 63 of 2013.
第二条の規定による改正後の確定給付企業年金法
改正後確定拠出年金法
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 63 of 2013, the Defined Contribution Pension Act as amended by Article 102 of those supplementary provisions.
附則第百二条の規定による改正後の確定拠出年金法
改正後厚生年金保険法
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 63 of 2013, the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by Article 1 of that Act.
第一条の規定による改正後の厚生年金保険法
改正後国民年金法
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 63 of 2013, the National Pension Act as amended by Article 3 of that Act.
第三条の規定による改正後の国民年金法
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 63 of 2013, the Insurance Business Act (Act No. 105 of 1995) as it stood before Article 131 of those supplementary provisions amended it.
附則第百三十一条の規定による改正前の保険業法（平成七年法律第百五号）
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 14 of 2000, which amended this Act, the first business year beginning on or after the day that Act came into effect.
施行日以後最初に開始する事業年度
改正後確定給付企業年金法
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 63 of 2013, the Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 63 of 2013.
第二条の規定による改正後の確定給付企業年金法
Short name, in the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 63 of 2012, for the National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 128 of 1958) as it stood before Article 2 of Act No. 63 of 2012 amended it.
第二条の規定による改正前の国家公務員共済組合法
Short name, in the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 63 of 2012, for the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 152 of 1962) as it stood before Article 3 of Act No. 63 of 2012 amended it.
第三条の規定による改正前の地方公務員等共済組合法
Short name, in the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 63 of 2012, for the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 245 of 1953) as it stood before Article 4 of Act No. 63 of 2012 amended it.
第四条の規定による改正前の私立学校教職員共済法
改正後特別会計法
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 63 of 2013, the Act on Special Accounts (Act No. 23 of 2007) as amended by Article 135 of those supplementary provisions.
附則第百三十五条の規定による改正後の特別会計に関する法律（平成十九年法律第二十三号）