①If a case falls under any of the following items (for a visit with a consular officer, etc., limited to item (i)(b) or (c)), an official of the immigration detention center, etc. may stop the act or statement, or suspend the visit. In this case, in order to suspend the visit, the official may order the detainee or the visitor to leave the place of the visit and take other necessary measures:

②In the case where a visit has been suspended pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if the director of the immigration detention center, etc. finds it inappropriate to allow the visit to continue, the director may terminate the visit.

①With regard to visits with detainees, the director of the immigration detention center, etc. may, pursuant to the provisions of Ministry of Justice Order, impose restrictions necessary for maintaining discipline and order, preserving sanitation or otherwise managing and operating the immigration detention center, etc., on the number of visitors, the place, days and hours of visits, the duration and frequency of visits, and other aspects of visits.

②When restricting the frequency of visits pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the frequency must not be less than once per day for each visitor.

The director of the immigration detention center, etc. is to permit detainees to send and receive letters to and from other persons, except where they are withheld pursuant to the provisions of Article 55-61.

①If the director of the immigration detention center, etc. finds it necessary for maintaining discipline and order at the immigration detention center, etc. or for any other reason, the director may have an official designated by the director inspect letters sent or received by detainees.

②For the following letters, the inspection set forth in the preceding paragraph is to be conducted to the extent necessary to confirm that they fall under those letters; provided, however, that this does not apply to letters set forth in item (iv) if there are special circumstances that give grounds to find that they are likely to result in harm to discipline and order at the immigration detention center, etc.:

①If, as a result of an inspection pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, the whole or part of a letter sent or received by a detainee falls under any of the following items, the director of the immigration detention center, etc. may withhold the sending or receipt of the letter, or delete or blot out the relevant portion. The same applies if, in the process of confirming that a letter set forth in any of the items of paragraph (2) of that Article falls under those letters, it becomes clear that the whole or part of it falls under any of the following items:

②Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, with regard to letters sent or received by a detainee to or from an organ of the national government or of a local government that contain matters within the authority of that organ, and letters sent or received by a detainee to or from an attorney that contain matters within the duties of an attorney provided for in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Attorney Act concerning that detainee, the withholding of their sending or receipt or the deletion or blotting out of the portion concerning those matters may be carried out only if the whole or part of that portion falls under any of items (i) through (iii) of the preceding paragraph.

The director of the immigration detention center, etc. may, pursuant to the provisions of Ministry of Justice Order, impose restrictions necessary for the management and operation of the immigration detention center, etc. on the guidelines for preparing letters sent by detainees, the days and hours for applying to send them, and the methods by which detainees send and receive letters.

In the case where a detainee is unable to bear the costs required for sending a letter, if the director of the immigration detention center, etc. finds it appropriate in light of the purpose of sending it, the whole or part of those costs is to be borne by the National Treasury.

①The director of the immigration detention center, etc. is to keep the letter, in the case where its sending or receipt has been withheld pursuant to the provisions of Article 55-61, and the deleted portion, in the case where part of a letter has been deleted pursuant to the provisions of that Article.

②When blotting out part of the text of a letter pursuant to the provisions of Article 55-61, the director of the immigration detention center, etc. is to make a copy of the portion to be blotted out and keep it.

③When a detainee leaves the facility, the director of the immigration detention center, etc. is to hand over to the detainee the whole or part of the letters, or the copies, kept pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs (hereinafter referred to as "withheld letters, etc." in this Chapter).

④If a detainee dies, the director of the immigration detention center, etc. is to hand over the withheld letters, etc. to the detainee's bereaved family members, etc. upon their application, pursuant to the provisions of Ministry of Justice Order.

⑤Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, if the handover of withheld letters, etc. is likely to hinder the maintenance of discipline and order at the immigration detention center, etc., they are not to be handed over. The same applies if, in the following cases, their handover is likely to hinder the maintenance of discipline and order at the immigration detention center, etc.:

⑥The provisions of Article 55-34, paragraph (1), Article 55-35, paragraph (1), and Article 55-36, paragraphs (2) and (3) apply mutatis mutandis to withheld letters, etc. pertaining to a detainee (excluding those that are not to be handed over pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph). In this case, the phrase "the application set forth in paragraph (1)" in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the application set forth in Article 55-64, paragraph (4)".

⑦Withheld letters, etc. that are not to be handed over pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (5) belong to the National Treasury on the day on which three years have elapsed counting from the day set forth in each of the following items:

If a detainee applies to deliver documents or drawings (excluding letters) prepared by the detainee to another person, the director of the immigration detention center, etc. may, with respect to that delivery, conduct inspections and take other measures in the same manner as for letters sent by detainees.

①The director of the immigration detention center, etc. may, when finding it appropriate, permit a detainee to communicate by telephone or by other means of telecommunication specified by Cabinet Order.

②The provisions of Article 55-63 apply mutatis mutandis to the communication set forth in the preceding paragraph.

①If the director of the immigration detention center, etc. finds it necessary for maintaining discipline and order at the immigration detention center, etc. or for any other reason, the director may have an official designated by the director receive the communication set forth in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article or record its content, in order to confirm the content of that communication.

②The provisions of Article 55-57, paragraph (1) (excluding item (i)(a)) and paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the communication set forth in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article.

①A person who is dissatisfied with any of the following measures taken by the director of the immigration detention center, etc. may file a request for examination in writing with the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency:

②A request for examination pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (hereinafter simply referred to as a "request for examination" in this Section) must be filed by the person making it in person.