# 日本国憲法 / The Constitution of Japan — 第九十六条 (Article 96) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/constitution/art-96. 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: 第九十六条 (Article 96) — address `art-96` - Text in force since: 1947-05-03 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/constitution/art-96 - e-Gov law ID: 321CONSTITUTION — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第九十六条 art-96 · https://japanlaw.org/en/constitution/art-96 **第一項** この憲法の改正は、各議院の総議員の三分の二以上の賛成で、国会が、これを発議し、国民に提案してその承認を経なければならない。この承認には、特別の国民投票又は国会の定める選挙の際行はれる投票において、その過半数の賛成を必要とする。 art-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/constitution/art-96/par-1 Amendments to this Constitution shall be initiated by the Diet, through a concurring vote of two-thirds or more of all the members of each House and shall thereupon be submitted to the people for ratification, which shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of all votes cast thereon, at a special referendum or at such election as the Diet shall specify. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 憲法改正について前項の承認を経たときは、天皇は、国民の名で、この憲法と一体を成すものとして、直ちにこれを公布する。 art-96/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/constitution/art-96/par-2 Amendments when so ratified shall immediately be promulgated by the Emperor in the name of the people, as an integral part of this Constitution. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-96/par-2: 前項 → 日本国憲法 第九十六条第一項 (Article 96, paragraph (1)), art-96/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/constitution/art-96/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 日本国憲法 第九十六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/constitution/art-96/par-2 --- ## 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