# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第二十八条 (Article 28) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-28. 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: 第二十八条 (Article 28)（違反調査について必要な取調べ及び報告の要求） — address `art-28` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-28 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-28 - 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. --- ### 第二十八条（違反調査について必要な取調べ及び報告の要求） — (Necessary Interrogation for Investigation into Violation and Request for Its Reports) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-28 **第一項** 入国警備官は、違反調査の目的を達するため必要な取調べをすることができる。ただし、強制の処分は、この章及び第八章に特別の規定がある場合でなければすることができない。 art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-28/par-1 An immigration control officer may conduct necessary interrogation in order to attain the objectives of an investigation into possible violation; provided, however, that mandatory disposal may not be enforced unless special provisions are provided in this Chapter and Chapter VIII. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 入国警備官は、違反調査について、公務所又は公私の団体に照会して必要な事項の報告を求めることができる。 art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-28/par-2 An immigration control officer may make inquiries to public offices or to public or private organizations and request reports on necessary facts for investigation into violations. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## 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 — 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 — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3624/tb), retrieved 2026-09-13 - This site's parser, version 223 — 出入国管理及び難民認定法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05