# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第五十六条の二 (Article 56-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-56-2. 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: 第五十六条の二 (Article 56-2)（旅券等の確認義務） — address `art-56-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-56-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-56-2 - 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. --- ### 第五十六条の二（旅券等の確認義務） — (Duty to Check Passports or Other Documents) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-56-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-56-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-56-2 **第一項** 本邦に入る船舶等を運航する運送業者（運送業者がないときは、当該船舶等の長）は、外国人が不法に本邦に入ることを防止するため、当該船舶等に乗ろうとする外国人の旅券、乗員手帳又は再入国許可書を確認しなければならない。 art-56-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-56-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-56-2/par-1 For the purpose of preventing foreign nationals from illegally entering Japan, the carrier who operates a vessel or aircraft entering Japan (or the captain of the vessel or aircraft in the absence of the carrier) must check the passports, crew member's pocket-ledgers or re-entry permits possessed by foreign nationals who seek to board the vessel or aircraft. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## 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 第七十七条第一項第一号の二（過料） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-77/par-1/item-1-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-77/par-1/item-1-2 --- ## 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 — 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