# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百八十条の二 (Article 180-2)

- Law: 金融商品取引法 (Financial Instruments and Exchange Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二十五号
- English title "Financial Instruments and Exchange 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.
- Provision: 第百八十条の二 (Article 180-2)（映像と音声の送受信による通話の方法による審判手続） — address `art-180-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-08-12
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### 第百八十条の二（映像と音声の送受信による通話の方法による審判手続） — Trial Procedures Conducted by Means of Calls Using Transmission and Reception of Video and Audio
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-180-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-180-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-180-2</sup>

  **第一項**  審判官は、相当と認めるときは、被審人の意見を聴いて、内閣府令で定めるところにより、審判官及び被審人が映像と音声の送受信により相手の状態を相互に認識しながら通話をすることができる方法によつて、審判手続を行うことができる。
  <sup>art-180-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-180-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-180-2/par-1</sup>
  If the trial examiners find it appropriate, they may, after hearing the opinion of the respondent, conduct trial procedures, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, by a method that enables the trial examiners and the respondent to converse while mutually recognizing each other's condition through the transmission and reception of video and audio.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第二項**  前項の場合には、当該被審人は、審判手続の期日に出頭したものとみなす。
  <sup>art-180-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-180-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-180-2/par-2</sup>
  In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the respondent is deemed to have appeared on the date for trial procedures.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-180-2/par-2: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 第百八十条の二第一項 (Article 180-2, paragraph (1)), art-180-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-180-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-180-2/par-1

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 金融商品取引法 第百八十条の二第二項（映像と音声の送受信による通話の方法による審判手続） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-180-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-180-2/par-2

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 金融商品取引法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000025/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-10-22
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4633/tb), retrieved 2026-10-22
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch financial-instruments-and-exchange-act-20261023T035921-014, translated 2026-10-23
- This site's parser, version 212 — 金融商品取引法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-22
