# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第四十七条の二 (Article 47-2) - Law: 銀行法 (Banking Act), 昭和五十六年法律第五十九号 - English title "Banking Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第四十七条の二 (Article 47-2)（外国銀行支店の資本金に対応する資産の国内保有） — address `art-47-2` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-47-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-47-2 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四十七条の二（外国銀行支店の資本金に対応する資産の国内保有） — (Retention of Assets Corresponding to the Stated Capital of a Foreign Bank Branch Office in Japan) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-47-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-47-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-47-2 **第一項** 外国銀行支店は、常時、政令で定めるところにより、十億円を下回らない範囲内において政令で定める額以上の資本金に対応する資産を国内において保有していなければならない。 art-47-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-47-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-47-2/par-1 Pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, a foreign bank branch office must retain the assets corresponding to its stated capital in Japan at all times, for the amount exceeding the amount specified by Cabinet Order within the scope of not less than one billion yen. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 銀行法 第六十五条第一項第十一号の二 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-65/par-1/item-11-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-65/par-1/item-11-2 - 銀行法 附則第十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/suppl-4251-45/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-4251-45/art-14/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 銀行法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/356AC0000000059/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Banking Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4498/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 189 — 銀行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11