# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第十九条の三十六 (Article 19-36) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-19-36. 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: 出入国管理及び難民認定法 (Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act), 昭和二十六年政令第三百十九号 - English title "Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition 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. - Issued as a Cabinet Order and given the force of an Act, which is why its number says 政令: Some rules made during the Allied occupation were issued as Cabinet Orders, as orders implementing Japan's acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, and an Act passed in 1952 gave them the force of an Act. They keep the Cabinet Order number they were issued under, which is why e-Gov lists the law as an Act while its number says 政令 (Cabinet Order). The Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (出入国管理及び難民認定法) is one: it was promulgated in 1951 as the Immigration Control Order (出入国管理令), Cabinet Order No. 319 of 1951, has had the force of an Act under Article 4 of Act No. 126 of 1952, took its present title on 1 January 1982, and every amendment on e-Gov's record of it was made by an Act. - Provision: 第十九条の三十六 (Article 19-36)（中長期在留者に関する情報の継続的な把握） — address `art-19-36` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-19-36 - e-Gov law ID: 326CO0000000319 — 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. --- ### 第十九条の三十六（中長期在留者に関する情報の継続的な把握） — (Continuously Keeping Track of Information on Mid- to Long-Term Residents) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-19-36 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-19-36 **第一項** 出入国在留管理庁長官は、中長期在留者の身分関係、居住関係、活動状況及び所属機関の状況（特定技能外国人（別表第一の二の表の特定技能の項の下欄第一号に掲げる活動を行う者に限る。以下この項において同じ。）については、一号特定技能外国人支援の状況（登録支援機関への委託の状況を含む。以下この項において同じ。）を含む。）を継続的に把握するため、出入国管理及び難民認定法その他の法令の定めるところにより取得した中長期在留者の氏名、生年月日、性別、国籍の属する国、住居地、所属機関その他在留管理に必要な情報（特定技能外国人については、一号特定技能外国人支援の状況に関する情報を含む。以下この条及び次条第一項において「中長期在留者に関する情報」という。）を整理しなければならない。 art-19-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-19-36/par-1 The Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency must organize information (in the case of specified skilled workers, including information on the status of support for specified skilled workers (i); hereinafter referred to as "information on mid-to long-term residents" in this Article and paragraph (1) of the following Article) on the name, date of birth, sex, country of nationality, place of residence and organization of affiliation of the mid- to long-term resident and other information necessary for residency management, which was acquired pursuant to the provisions of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act and other laws and regulations, in order to continuously keep track of the family relationship, residence, state of activities and state of the organization of affiliation of mid- to long-term residents (including the status of support for specified skilled workers (i) (including the status of entrustment to registered support organizations; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) with regard to the specified skilled workers (limited to persons engaged in the activities set forth in item (i) of the right-hand column of "Specified Skilled Worker" of the Appended Table I (2); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph)). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency must organize information (in the case of specified skilled workers, including information on the status of support for specified skilled workers (i); hereinafter referred to as "information on mid-to long-term residents" in this Article and paragraph (1) of the following Article) on the name, date of birth, sex, country of nationality, place of residence and organization of affiliation of the mid- to long-term resident and other information necessary for residency management, which was acquired pursuant to the provisions of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act and other laws and regulations, in order to continuously keep track of the family relationship, residence, state of activities and state of the organization of affiliation of mid- to long-term residents (including the status of support for specified skilled workers (i) (including the status of support for specified skilled workers (i) (including the status of entrustment to registered support organizations; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) with regard to the specified skilled workers (limited to persons engaged in the activities set forth in item (i) of the right-hand column of "Specified Skilled Worker" of the Appended Table I (2))." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3624/tb **第二項** 出入国在留管理庁長官は、中長期在留者に関する情報を正確かつ最新の内容に保つよう努めなければならない。 art-19-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-19-36/par-2 The Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency must endeavor to keep the information on mid- to long-term residents accurate and up-to-date. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 法務大臣及び出入国在留管理庁長官は、在留管理の目的を達成するために必要な最小限度の範囲を超えて、中長期在留者に関する情報を取得し、又は保有してはならず、当該情報の取扱いに当たつては、個人の権利利益の保護に留意しなければならない。 art-19-36/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-19-36/par-3 The Minister of Justice and the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency must not acquire nor retain the information on mid- to long-term residents beyond the minimum extent necessary to achieve the purpose of the residency management, and must take heed to protect the rights and interests of individuals when handling the information. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-19-36/par-1: 別表第一の二 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 別表第一 (Appended Table 1), appdx-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/appdx-1 - art-19-36/par-1: この項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十九条の三十六第一項 (Article 19-36, paragraph (1)), art-19-36/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-19-36/par-1 - art-19-36/par-1: この条 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十九条の三十六 (Article 19-36), art-19-36 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-19-36 - art-19-36/par-1: 次条第一項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十九条の三十七第一項 (Article 19-37, paragraph (1)), art-19-37/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-19-37/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十九条の三十六第一項（中長期在留者に関する情報の継続的な把握） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-19-36/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-09-29 - 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 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326CO0000000319/20261001_508AC0000000032), retrieved 2026-10-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (出入国管理及び難民認定法), Article 19-36, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3624/tb), retrieved 2026-09-13 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3624/tb), retrieved 2026-09-13 - This site's parser, version 225 — 出入国管理及び難民認定法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05