# 日本国憲法 / The Constitution of Japan — 第三条 (Article 3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/constitution/art-3. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 日本国憲法 (The Constitution of Japan), 昭和二十一年憲法 - English title "The Constitution of Japan": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Constitution — 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: 第三条 (Article 3) — address `art-3` - Text in force since: 1947-05-03 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/constitution/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/321CONSTITUTION/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条 art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/constitution/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/321CONSTITUTION/art-3 **第一項** 天皇の国事に関するすべての行為には、内閣の助言と承認を必要とし、内閣が、その責任を負ふ。 art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/constitution/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/321CONSTITUTION/art-3/par-1 The advice and approval of the Cabinet shall be required for all acts of the Emperor in matters of state, and the Cabinet shall be responsible therefor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 日本国憲法 — the text in force from 1947-05-03 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/321CONSTITUTION/19470503_000000000000000), retrieved 2026-09-16 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — The Constitution of Japan — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/174/tb), retrieved 2026-09-16 - This site's parser, version 211 — 日本国憲法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-16