①The service of documents pursuant to the provisions of Article 22-4, paragraph (3) or (6) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 61-2-11, paragraph (2)) is effected by delivering the documents to the place of residence of the person to be served, by service by postal mail or by correspondence delivery prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act on Correspondence Delivery by Private Business Operators (Act No. 99 of 2002) provided by a general correspondence delivery business operator prescribed in paragraph (6) of the same Article or a specified correspondence delivery business operator prescribed in paragraph (9) of the same Article (hereinafter referred to as "correspondence delivery"), or by personal delivery service.

②Where the documents have been sent pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph by ordinary mail or by correspondence delivery, the postal item or the correspondence item prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Act on Letter Service by Private Business Operators is presumed to have been served at the time at which they should have arrived under normal conditions.

③The Minister of Justice must prepare a record sufficient to confirm the name of the documents, the name and address of the person who is to be served with the documents, and the date of service the documents, in the cases provided for in the preceding paragraph.

④The personal delivery service is to be made by an immigration inspector or an immigration control officer to deliver the documents to the person who is to be served at the place where the delivery is to be made pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1); provided however, that if the person who is to be served has no objection, the document may be delivered to other places.

⑤In the cases set forth in the following items, the personal delivery service may be made through the act prescribed in the respective item, in lieu of the delivery pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph:

⑥If the place of residence of the person to be served with documents that are to be served pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraphs is unknown, the Minister of Justice may effect service by public notice in lieu of that service; provided, however, that this does not apply to the service of documents pursuant to the provisions of Article 22-4, paragraphs (3) and (6) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 61-2-11, paragraph (2).

⑦Service by public notice is effected by placing the title of the documents to be served, the name of the person to be served and a statement to the effect that the Minister of Justice will deliver the documents to the person to be served at any time (hereinafter referred to as the "particulars of the public notice" in this paragraph) in a state in which they can be viewed by an unspecified large number of persons by the method specified by Ministry of Justice Order, and by taking measures to post a document stating the particulars of the public notice on the bulletin board of the Ministry of Justice or to place the particulars of the public notice, as displayed on the screen of a computer installed at an office of the Ministry of Justice, in a state in which they can be viewed.

⑧In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the documents are deemed to have been served when 2 weeks have elapsed from the day on which the measures pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph were commenced.

①If the foreign national is to perform an act set forth in the following items, they must perform it by appearing at the place prescribed in the respective items:

②If a foreign national is under 16 years of age, if a foreign national makes an application pursuant to the provisions of Article 19-11, paragraph (1) or receives the residence card issued pursuant to the provisions of Article 19-10, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (3) of the same Article and the date of the application or the date of receipt is the foreign national's 16th birthday, or if a foreign national is unable to perform the act set forth in item (i) or (ii) of the preceding paragraph in person due to illness or any other reason, the act must be performed on behalf of the foreign national by a person set forth in the following items (excluding persons under 16 years of age) who lives with the foreign national, in the order of those items:

③In addition to the cases prescribed in the preceding paragraph, for an act set forth in paragraph (1), items (i) and (ii), if a person set forth in any item of the same paragraph (except for a person under 16 years of age), who is living with the foreign national is to perform on behalf of the foreign national upon the request of the foreign national or in other cases prescribed in Ministry of Justice Order, the foreign national is not required to appear in person and perform the act, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1).

④Where the legal representative of the foreign national is to perform an act set forth in paragraph (1), item (iii) on behalf of the foreign national or in other cases prescribed in Ministry of Justice Order, the foreign national is not required to appear in person and perform the act, notwithstanding the provisions of the same paragraph.

①The Minister of Justice is to formulate a basic plan for the immigration and residency management of foreign nationals (hereinafter referred to as the "Basic Plan for Immigration and Residency Management"), in order to promote impartial control over immigration.

②The Basic Plan for Immigration and Residency Management is to provide for the following particulars:

③Prior to the formulation of the Basic Plan for Immigration and Residency Management, the Minister of Justice is to consult with the heads of the related administrative organs.

④The Minister of Justice is to announce the outline of the Basic Plan for Immigration and Residency Management without delay, when it has been formulated.

⑤The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis to changes in the Basic Plan for Immigration and Residency Management.

The Minister of Justice must endeavor to manage the entry and departure and the residence of foreign nationals fairly based on the Basic Plan for Immigration and Residency Management.

①If any person has knowledge of a foreign national whom they consider to fall under any of the items of Article 24, that information may be reported.

②If an official of the government or of a local public entity becomes aware of a foreign national set forth in the preceding paragraph through the execution of their duties, that information must be reported.

③In cases of a foreign national set forth in paragraph (1) who is serving a sentence and is to be released due to completion of the sentence, stay of the execution of the sentence or for any other reason (except for release on parole), or in cases the foreign national is to leave a juvenile training school after receiving the disposition prescribed in Article 24, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Juveniles Act or in Article 64, paragraph (1), item (ii) (limited to cases in which the decision set forth in Article 66, paragraph (1) of the same Act has been made; the same applies in the following paragraph) or item (iii) of the same Act (except for leaving on provisional release or discharge (limited to discharge by the decision set forth in Article 47-2 of the Offenders Rehabilitation Act (Act No. 88 of 2007); the same applies in the following paragraph)), the head of the correctional institution must immediately notify the fact.

④In the case of making a decision to grant release on parole, provisional release or discharge to a foreign national set forth in paragraph (1) who is serving a sentence or who is in a juvenile training school under a disposition prescribed in Article 24, paragraph (1), item (iii) or Article 64, paragraph (1), item (ii) or (iii) of the Juveniles Act, the regional parole board must immediately notify the fact.

⑤The notification set forth in the preceding paragraphs must be submitted, orally or in writing, to an immigration inspector or immigration control officer in charge.