Article 5Denial of Landing

一a patient with category 1 infectious diseases, category 2 infectious diseases, pandemic influenza or designated infectious diseases provided for by the Act on Prevention of Infectious Diseases and Medical Care for Patients with Infectious Diseases (Act No. 114 of 1998) (limited to infectious diseases to which the provisions of Article 19 or 20 of the same Act applies mutatis mutandis, pursuant to the provisions of a Cabinet Order pursuant to the provisions of Article 44-9 of the same Act), including a person who is deemed to be a patient of category 1 infectious diseases or category 2 infectious disease, pandemic influenza, or designated infectious diseases pursuant to the provisions of Article 8 of the same Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 44-9 of the same Act), or any person who has symptoms of a new infectious disease;

二a person who, due to a mental disability, has a habitual condition of being unable to understand right from wrong or whose capacity for understanding is significantly lacking, and is not accompanied by those persons provided for by Ministry of Justice Order for that person's assistance in engaging in activities in Japan;

三a person who is indigent or without a fixed dwelling place and is likely to become a burden on the Japanese Government or a local public entity because of an inability to make a living;

四a person who has been convicted of a violation of any law or regulation of Japan or of any other country, and has been sentenced to imprisonment for 1 year or more, or to an equivalent penalty; provided, however, that this does not apply to those convicted of a political offense;

五a person who has been convicted of a violation of any law or regulation of Japan or of any other country relating to the control of narcotics, marijuana, opium, stimulant drugs or psychotropic drugs, and has been sentenced to a punishment;

五の二a person who has been convicted of a violation of any law or regulation of Japan or of any other country or has been deported from Japan pursuant to the provisions of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act or deported from any other country pursuant to the provisions of any law or regulation of that country for killing, injuring, assaulting or threatening a person, or damaging a building or other objects in relation to the process or results of an international competition or a competition of an equivalent scale or an international conference (hereinafter referred to as "international competition, etc.") or with the intent of preventing the smooth operation thereof, and is likely to kill, injure, assault or threaten a person, or damage a building or other objects in relation to the process or results of an international competition, etc. held in Japan or with the intent of preventing the smooth implementation thereof, at the venue of the international competition, etc. or within the area of the municipality where the venue is located (including special wards, and wards or administratively consolidated wards in designated cities prescribed in Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947)) or to neighboring places provided for use to unspecified or a large number of persons;

六a person who illegally possesses any narcotics or psychotropic substances as prescribed in the Narcotics and Psychotropic Control Act (Act No. 14 of 1953), opium poppy, opium or poppy as prescribed in the Opium Control Act (Act No. 71 of 1954), stimulant drugs or stimulants' raw materials as prescribed in the Stimulants Control Act (Act No. 252 of 1951), or any apparatus used to smoke opium;

七a person who has engaged in prostitution, or intermediation or solicitation of prostitution, provision of a place for prostitution, or any other business directly connected to prostitution (except for those who have engaged in these businesses under the control of another person due to human trafficking);

七の二a person who has committed human trafficking or incited or aided another person to commit human trafficking;

八a person who illegally possesses firearms, crossbows, swords or other weapons as prescribed in the Act for Controlling the Possession of Firearms or Swords and Other Weapons (Act No. 6 of 1958) or explosives as provided for by the Explosives Control Act (Act No. 149 of 1950);

九a person who falls under any of sub-items (a) through (f) for whom the period set forth in the relevant provisions has not yet elapsed:

イa person who has been denied landing for any of the reasons prescribed in the provisions of either item (vi) or the preceding item:1 year from the date of denial.

ロa person who has been deported from Japan for any of the reasons set forth in the items under Article 24 (excluding item (iv), sub-items (l) through (o), and item (iv)-3), who has received the decision set forth in Article 52, paragraph (5), and who has departed from Japan based on the permission under the provisions of paragraph (4) of the same Article by the date provided for by Ministry of Justice Order as prescribed in paragraph (5) of the same Article (excluding a person who seeks to engage in the activities set forth in the right-hand column corresponding to "Temporary Visitor" specified in Appended Table I (3)):1 year from the date of deportation;

ハa person who has been deported from Japan for any of the reasons set forth in the items under Article 24 (excluding item (iv), sub-items (l) through (o), and item (iv)-3) and who has not previously been deported from Japan or has not departed from Japan under a departure order pursuant to the provisions of Article 55-85, paragraph (1), before the aforesaid date of deportation (excluding a person set forth in sub-item (b)):5 years from the date of deportation;

ニa person (except for the persons set forth in sub-items (b) and (c)) who has been deported from Japan for falling under any of the items of Article 24 (excluding item (iv), sub-items (l) through (o), and item (iv)-3):10 years from the date of deportation;

ホa person who has departed from Japan under a departure order pursuant to the provisions of Article 55-85, paragraph (1) (excluding a person set forth in sub-item (f)):1 year from the date of departure;

ヘa person who falls under Article 24-3, item (i), sub-item (b) and who has departed from Japan under a departure order pursuant to the provisions of Article 55-85, paragraph (1) (limited to a person who seeks to engage in the activities set forth in the right-hand column corresponding to "Temporary Visitor" specified in Appended Table I (3)):5 years from the date of departure;

九の二a person who has been sentenced to imprisonment on the charge of a crime provided for in Part II, Chapters XII, XVI through XIX, XXIII, XXVI, XXVII, XXXI, XXXIII, XXXVI, XXXVII or XXXIX of the Penal Code (Act No. 45 of 1907), or in Article 1, 1-2 or 1-3 (excluding the parts pertaining to Article 222 or 261 of the Penal Code) of the Act on Punishment of Physical Violence and Others (Act No. 60 of 1926), the Act on the Prevention and Punishment of Burglary, Robbery, Theft, etc. (Act No. 9 of 1930), or Article 15 or 16 of the Act on Prohibition of Possession of Special Picking Tools, and Other Related Matters (Act No. 65 of 2003), or Article 2 or Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Act on Punishment of Acts of Inflicting Death or Injury on Others by Driving a Motor Vehicle, etc. (Act No. 86 of 2013), or Article 22 of the Act on Prevention of the Disposal of Stolen Specified Metal Articles and Other Related Matters (Act No. 75 of 2025) during their stay in Japan with the status of residence set forth in the left-hand column of Appended Table I, who subsequently left Japan and whose sentence became final and binding while the relevant person was outside of Japan, and for whom 5 years have not yet elapsed from the date that the sentence became final and binding;

十a person who has been deported from Japan for falling under any of Article 24, item (iv), sub-items (1) through (o);

十二a person who organizes, or is a member of, or is closely affiliated with any of the following political parties or organizations:

イa political party or organization which encourages acts of violence or the assault, killing, or injury of officials of the government or of local public entities for the reason of being officials;

ロa political party or organization which encourages illegal damage to or destruction of public facilities;

ハa political party or organization which encourages acts of dispute to interrupt or prevent the normal maintenance or operation of the security facilities of a factory or other workplaces;

十三a person who schemes to prepare, distribute, or exhibit printed particulars, motion pictures, or any other documents or drawings to attain the objectives of any political party or organization prescribed in item (xi) or the preceding item; or

十四other than those persons set forth in items (i) through (xiii), a person whom the Minister of Justice has reasonable grounds to believe is likely to commit an act which could be detrimental to the interests or public security of Japan.