# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第六十六条の三十二 (Article 66-32) - 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: 第六十六条の三十二 (Article 66-32)（誠実義務） — address `art-66-32` - 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-66-32 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-32 - 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. --- ### 第六十六条の三十二（誠実義務） — (Duty of Sincerity) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-66-32 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-32 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-32 **第一項** 信用格付業者並びにその役員及び使用人は、独立した立場において公正かつ誠実にその業務を遂行しなければならない。 art-66-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-32/par-1 A credit rating agency as well as its officers and employees must be sincere and fair in the performance of its services, from an independent standpoint. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の四十九第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-49/par-1 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 212 — 金融商品取引法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-22