# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第五十九条 (Article 59) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-59. 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: 第五十九条 (Article 59)（送還の義務） — address `art-59` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-59 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-59 - 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. --- ### 第五十九条（送還の義務） — (Duty of Repatriation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-59 **第一項** 次の各号のいずれかに該当する外国人が乗つてきた船舶等の長又はその船舶等を運航する運送業者は、当該外国人をその船舶等又は当該運送業者に属する他の船舶等により、その責任と費用で、速やかに本邦外の地域に送還しなければならない。 art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-59/par-1 The captain of a vessel or aircraft or the carrier who operates a vessel or aircraft that has on board a foreign national falling under any of the following items must promptly send the foreign national outside of Japan at their own expense and responsibility via the same vessel or aircraft or any other vessel or aircraft owned by the same carrier: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第三章第一節又は第二節の規定により上陸を拒否された者 art-59/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-59/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-59/par-1/item-1 a person denied landing pursuant to the provisions of Chapter III, Section 1 or 2; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第二十四条第五号から第六号の四までのいずれかに該当して本邦からの退去強制を受けた者 art-59/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-59/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-59/par-1/item-2 a person deported for falling under any of items (v) through (vi)-4 of Article 24; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 前号に規定する者を除き、上陸後五年以内に、第二十四条各号のいずれかに該当して退去強制を受けた者のうち、その者の上陸のときに当該船舶等の長又は運送業者がその者について退去強制の理由となつた事実があることを明らかに知つていたと認められるもの art-59/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-59/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-59/par-1/item-3 excluding those persons prescribed in the preceding item, out of those who were deported within 5 years of their landing date for falling under any of the items of Article 24, the person whom the captain of the vessel or aircraft or the carrier who operated the vessel or aircraft at the time of their landing is found to have obviously known the existence of grounds for deportation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合において、当該運送業者は、その外国人を同項に規定する船舶等により送還することができないときは、その責任と費用で、速やかに他の船舶等により送還しなければならない。 art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-59/par-2 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the carrier cannot send the foreign national back via the vessel or aircraft prescribed in the same paragraph, the carrier must promptly send the foreign national back via another vessel or aircraft at their own expense and responsibility. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 主任審査官は、前二項の規定にかかわらず、これらの規定により船舶等の長又はその船舶等を運航する運送業者が負うべき責任と費用の負担のうち、出国待機施設にとどめておくことに伴うものについては、有効な旅券で日本国領事官等の査証を受けたものを所持する外国人に係るものに限り、その全部又は一部を免除することができる。 art-59/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-59/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-59/par-3 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, out of the expense and responsibility that should be borne by the captain of a vessel or aircraft or the carrier who operates the vessel or aircraft pursuant to those provisions, a supervising immigration inspector may exempt the captain or the carrier from all or part of the expenses and responsibility arising from keeping at a Departure Waiting Facility, limited to those pertaining to a foreign national who possesses a valid passport with a visa issued by a Japanese consular officer, etc. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-59/par-1/item-2: 第二十四条第五号から第六号の四まで → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第二十四条第一項第五号 (Article 24, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-24/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-24/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-24/par-1/item-5 - art-59/par-1/item-2: 第二十四条第五号から第六号の四まで → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第二十四条第一項第五号の二 (Article 24, paragraph (1), item (v-2)), art-24/par-1/item-5-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-24/par-1/item-5-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-24/par-1/item-5-2 - art-59/par-1/item-2: 第二十四条第五号から第六号の四まで → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第二十四条第一項第六号 (Article 24, paragraph (1), item (vi)), art-24/par-1/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-24/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-24/par-1/item-6 - art-59/par-1/item-2: 第二十四条第五号から第六号の四まで → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第二十四条第一項第六号の二 (Article 24, paragraph (1), item (vi-2)), art-24/par-1/item-6-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-24/par-1/item-6-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-24/par-1/item-6-2 - art-59/par-1/item-2: 第二十四条第五号から第六号の四まで → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第二十四条第一項第六号の三 (Article 24, paragraph (1), item (vi-3)), art-24/par-1/item-6-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-24/par-1/item-6-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-24/par-1/item-6-3 - art-59/par-1/item-2: 第二十四条第五号から第六号の四まで → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第二十四条第一項第六号の四 (Article 24, paragraph (1), item (vi-4)), art-24/par-1/item-6-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-24/par-1/item-6-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-24/par-1/item-6-4 - art-59/par-1/item-3: 前号 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十九条第一項第二号 (Article 59, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-59/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-59/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-59/par-1/item-2 - art-59/par-1/item-3: 第二十四条 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第二十四条 (Article 24), art-24 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-24 - art-59/par-2: 前項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十九条第一項 (Article 59, paragraph (1)), art-59/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-59/par-1 - art-59/par-3: 前二項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十九条第一項 (Article 59, paragraph (1)), art-59/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-59/par-1 - art-59/par-3: 前二項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十九条第二項 (Article 59, paragraph (2)), art-59/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-59/par-2 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十二条第三項（退去強制令書の執行） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-52/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-52/par-3 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の十四第一項（出国待機施設の視察等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-14/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十九条第一項第三号（送還の義務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-59/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-59/par-1/item-3 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十九条第二項（送還の義務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-59/par-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十九条第三項（送還の義務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-59/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-59/par-3 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第六十一条の二の九第三項（退去強制手続との関係） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-61-2-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-61-2-9/par-3 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第七十七条第一項第四号（過料） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-77/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-77/par-1/item-4 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第四十七条第一項（送還通知書） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-47/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第五十二条の二第一項（船舶等の長又は運送業者の責任と費用の負担の免除） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-52-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-52-2/par-1 --- ## 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-20260913T134912-027, 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