# 出入国管理及び難民認定法第二十条の二第二項の基準を定める省令 / Ministerial Order to Provide for Criteria Pursuant to Article 20-2, Paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第一項 (paragraph (1)) - Law: 出入国管理及び難民認定法第二十条の二第二項の基準を定める省令 (Ministerial Order to Provide for Criteria Pursuant to Article 20-2, Paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act), 平成二十一年法務省令第五十一号 - English title "Ministerial Order to Provide for Criteria Pursuant to Article 20-2, Paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: MinisterialOrdinance — 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: 第一項 (paragraph (1)) — address `par-1` - Text in force since: 2017-11-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/highly-skilled-professional-ii-criteria-ordinance/par-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421M60000010051/par-1 - 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. --- **第一項** 出入国管理及び難民認定法第二十条の二第二項の基準は、同条の申請を行った者が出入国管理及び難民認定法別表第一の二の表の高度専門職の項の下欄の基準を定める省令（平成二十六年法務省令第三十七号）第二条第一項に掲げる基準に適合することのほか、その者が本邦において行おうとする活動が我が国の産業及び国民生活に与える影響等の観点から相当でないと認める場合でないこととする。 par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/highly-skilled-professional-ii-criteria-ordinance/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421M60000010051/par-1 The criteria pursuant to Article 20-2, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act are to be that the applicant meets the criteria stated in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Ministerial Order for Defining the Criteria in the Right-Hand Column of the Entry for Highly Skilled Professional in the Appended Table I (2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (Ministry of Justice Order No. 37 of 2014), and that the activities that the applicant intends to engage in Japan are not cases found to be inappropriate from the perspective of the impact on Japanese industry and public welfare, etc. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - par-1: 出入国管理及び難民認定法第二十条の二第二項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第二十条の二第二項 (Article 20-2, paragraph (2)), art-20-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-20-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-20-2/par-2 - par-1: 同条 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第二十条の二 (Article 20-2), art-20-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-20-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-20-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 出入国管理及び難民認定法第二十条の二第二項の基準を定める省令 — the text in force from 2017-11-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/421M60000010051/20171101_429M60000010019), retrieved 2026-10-20 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Ministerial Order to Provide for Criteria Pursuant to Article 20-2, Paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5032/tb), retrieved 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 出入国管理及び難民認定法第二十条の二第二項の基準を定める省令 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-20