# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第百四条の四十三 (Article 104-43) - Law: 著作権法 (Copyright Act), 昭和四十五年法律第四十八号 - English title "Copyright 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: 第百四条の四十三 (Article 104-43)（改善命令） — address `art-104-43` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-104-43 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-104-43 - 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. --- ### 第百四条の四十三（改善命令） — Order for Improvement caption: machine translation, not official art-104-43 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-104-43 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-104-43 **第一項** 文化庁長官は、登録確認機関が実施する確認等事務が第百四条の三十六の規定に違反していると認めるときは、当該登録確認機関に対し、その確認等事務の実施の方法を改善するため必要な措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。 art-104-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-104-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-104-43/par-1 If the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs finds that the verification and other affairs carried out by a registered verification body violate the provisions of Article 104-36, the Commissioner may order that registered verification body to take the measures necessary to improve the method of carrying out the verification and other affairs. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-104-43/par-1: 第百四条の三十六 → 著作権法 第百四条の三十六 (Article 104-36), art-104-36 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-104-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-104-36 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 第百四条の四十五第二項第二号（登録の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-104-45/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-104-45/par-2/item-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 著作権法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/345AC0000000048/20260624_508AC0000000048), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Copyright Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4207/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch copyright-act-20261019T151240-008, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 著作権法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19