# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第五十五条の八十七 (Article 55-87)

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- 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: 第五十五条の八十七 (Article 55-87)（出国期限の延長） — address `art-55-87`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第五十五条の八十七（出国期限の延長） — (Extension of the Deadline for Departure)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-55-87 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-87 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-87</sup>

**第一項**  主任審査官は、法務省令で定めるところにより、第五十五条の八十五第一項の規定により出国命令を受けた者から、当該出国命令に係る出国期限内に出国することができない旨の申出があつた場合には、船舶等の運航の都合その他その者の責めに帰することができない事由があると認めるときに限り、当該出国期限を延長することができる。
<sup>art-55-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-87/par-1</sup>
Upon receiving notification from the foreign national who has been given a departure order pursuant to the provisions of Article 55-85, paragraph (1) that they are unable to depart from Japan within the deadline for departure pertaining to the departure order, the supervising immigration inspector may extend the deadline for departure pursuant to the provisions of Ministry of Justice Order, provided that the inspector finds grounds not attributable to that person, such as the operating schedule of the vessel or aircraft used for departure.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-55-87/par-1: 第五十五条の八十五第一項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の八十五第一項 (Article 55-85, paragraph (1)), art-55-85/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-85/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-85/par-1

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第五十条の五十四第一項（出国期限の延長） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-50-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-50-54/par-1
- 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第五十条の五十四第二項（出国期限の延長） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-50-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-50-54/par-2

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## 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
- claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch immigration-control-act-20260913T134912-026, translated 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
