# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百八十一条 (Article 181) - 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: 第百八十一条 (Article 181)（被審人の代理人等） — address `art-181` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-181 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-181 - 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. --- ### 第百八十一条（被審人の代理人等） — (Representative of the Respondent) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-181 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-181 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-181 **第一項** 被審人は、弁護士、弁護士法人、弁護士・外国法事務弁護士共同法人又は内閣総理大臣の承認を得た適当な者を代理人とすることができる。 art-181/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-181/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-181/par-1 A respondent may appoint as its representative an attorney-at-law, legal professional corporation, attorney-at-law and registered foreign lawyer joint corporation, or an appropriate person that has been approved by the Prime Minister. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 内閣総理大臣は、当該職員でその指定するもの（以下この条において「指定職員」という。）を審判手続に参加させることができる。 art-181/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-181/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-181/par-2 The Prime Minister may have relevant officials the Prime Minister has designated (hereinafter each of those officials is referred to as a "designated official" in this Article) participate in trial procedures. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 指定職員は、審判手続に立ち会い、証拠の申出その他必要な行為をすることができる。 art-181/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-181/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-181/par-3 A designated official may attend trial procedures, and offer evidence and perform other necessary acts. machine translation, not official **第四項** 指定職員は、第百七十八条第一項各号に掲げる事実、法令の適用並びに納付すべき課徴金の額及びその計算の基礎について変更（内閣府令で定める範囲のものに限る。）の必要があると認めるときは、これを主張することができる。ただし、被審人の利益を害することとなる場合は、この限りでない。 art-181/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-181/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-181/par-4 A designated official may, when finding it necessary to change any facts listed in the items of Article 178, paragraph (1), the application of laws or regulations, the amount of administrative monetary penalty to be paid or the basis for its calculation (limited to the extent specified by Cabinet Office Order), claim that the change be made; provided, however, that this does not apply if the change will impair the interests of the respondent. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-181/par-2: この条 → 金融商品取引法 第百八十一条 (Article 181), art-181 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-181 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-181 - art-181/par-4: 第百七十八条第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第百七十八条第一項 (Article 178, paragraph (1)), art-178/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-178/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-178/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第百八十一条第二項（被審人の代理人等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-181/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-181/par-2 --- ## 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