# 外国為替及び外国貿易法 / Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — 第五十五条 (Article 55) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55. 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: 外国為替及び外国貿易法 (Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act), 昭和二十四年法律第二百二十八号 - English title "Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade 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: 第五十五条 (Article 55)（支払等の報告） — address `art-55` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十五条（支払等の報告） — (Reporting the Making and Receipt of Payments) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55 **第一項** 居住者若しくは非居住者が本邦から外国へ向けた支払若しくは外国から本邦へ向けた支払の受領をしたとき、又は本邦若しくは外国において居住者が非居住者との間で支払等をしたときは、政令で定める場合を除き、当該居住者若しくは非居住者又は当該居住者は、政令で定めるところにより、これらの支払等の内容、実行の時期その他の政令で定める事項を主務大臣に報告しなければならない。 art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55/par-1 Except in a case prescribed by Cabinet Order, when a resident or non-resident has made a payment from Japan to a foreign country, or has received a payment that was made from a foreign country to Japan, that resident or non-resident must report the substance of the payment being made and received, its timing, and any other information that Cabinet Order prescribes to the competent minister, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order; and when a resident has made a payment to or received a payment from a non-resident in Japan or a foreign country, the resident must report the substance of the payment being made and received, its timing, and any other information that Cabinet Order prescribes to the competent minister, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による報告は、当該報告に係る同項の支払等が銀行等又は資金移動業者が行う為替取引によつてされるものである場合には、政令で定めるところにより、当該銀行等又は資金移動業者を経由してするものとする。ただし、情報通信技術を活用した行政の推進等に関する法律（平成十四年法律第百五十一号）第六条第一項の規定により同項に規定する電子情報処理組織を使用して前項の報告をする場合には、当該銀行等又は資金移動業者を経由しないで報告することができる。 art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55/par-2 If a payment as referred to in the preceding paragraph that is the subject of a report under that paragraph is made or received through a funds transfer transaction conducted by a bank or other prescribed financial institution or a funds transfer service provider, the report is to be made, pursuant to Cabinet Order, through the bank or other prescribed financial institution or the funds transfer service provider; provided, however, that if an electronic data processing system as prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Promotion of Utilizing Information and Communications Technology in Administrative Procedures (Act No. 151 of 2002) is used to make a report pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, it may be made without going through the bank or other prescribed financial institution or the funds transfer service provider. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a payment as referred to in the preceding paragraph that is the subject of a report under that paragraph is made or received through an exchange transaction conducted by a bank or other prescribed financial institution or a funds transfer service provider, the report is to be made, pursuant to Cabinet Order, through the bank or other prescribed financial institution or the funds transfer service provider; provided, however, that if an electronic data processing system as prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Promotion of Utilizing Information and Communications Technology in Administrative Procedures (Act No. 151 of 2002) is used to make a report pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, it may be made without going through the bank or other prescribed financial institution or the funds transfer service provider." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb --- ## Cites - art-55/par-2: 前項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第五十五条第一項 (Article 55, paragraph (1)), art-55/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55/par-1 - art-55/par-2: 情報通信技術を活用した行政の推進等に関する法律（平成十四年法律第百五十一号）第六条第一項 → e-Gov law 414AC0000000151, 第六条第一項 (Article 6, paragraph (1)), art-6/par-1 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第五十五条第二項（支払等の報告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55/par-2 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第七十一条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-71/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-71/par-1/item-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act, written 2026-11-05 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 外国為替及び外国貿易法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/324AC0000000228/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act (外国為替及び外国貿易法), Article 55, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 225 — 外国為替及び外国貿易法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05