# 外国為替及び外国貿易法 / Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — 第五十五条の七 (Article 55-7) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-7. 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: 第五十五条の七 (Article 55-7)（外国為替業務に関する事項の報告） — address `art-55-7` - 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-55-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-7 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条の七（外国為替業務に関する事項の報告） — (Reporting of Particulars Related to Foreign Exchange Services) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-55-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-7 **第一項** 財務大臣は、この法律の目的を達成するため必要な限度において、政令で定めるところにより、外国為替業務（外国為替取引その他の取引又は行為であつて我が国の国際収支又は対外の貸借の動向と密接に関連するものとして政令で定めるもののいずれかを業として行うことをいう。）を行う者のうち相当規模のものを行う者として政令で定めるものに対し、当該外国為替業務に関する事項（第五十五条の三の規定による報告の対象となる事項を除く。）についての報告を求めることができる。 art-55-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-7/par-1 To the extent necessary for achieving the purpose of this Act, the Minister of Finance, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, may ask a person engaged in foreign exchange services (meaning engagement, in the course of trade, in foreign exchange transactions or any other transactions or actions prescribed by Cabinet Order as being closely related to Japan's balance of payments or the trends in Japan's foreign borrowing and lending) that is prescribed by Cabinet Order as a person engaged in those services on a considerable scale to report on the particulars of its foreign exchange services (excluding the particulars subject to reporting under Article 55-3). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-55-7/par-1: 第五十五条の三 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第五十五条の三 (Article 55-3), art-55-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第七十一条第一項第八号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-71/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-71/par-1/item-8 - 消費税法 別表第二第五号ニ — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumption-tax-act/appdx-2/item-5/sub-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/appdx-2/item-5/sub-4 --- ## Sources - 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 — 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