# 外国為替及び外国貿易法 / Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — 第五十五条の九 (Article 55-9) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-9. 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: 第五十五条の九 (Article 55-9)（対外の貸借及び国際収支に関する統計） — address `art-55-9` - 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-55-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-9 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条の九（対外の貸借及び国際収支に関する統計） — (Statistics on Foreign Borrowing and Lending and Balance of Payments) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-55-9 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-9 **第一項** 財務大臣は、政令で定めるところにより、対外の貸借及び国際収支に関する統計を作成し、定期的に、内閣に報告しなければならない。 art-55-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-9/par-1 Pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, the Minister of Finance must prepare statistics on foreign borrowing and lending and balance of payments and report them to the Cabinet periodically. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 財務大臣は、前項に規定する統計を作成するため必要があると認めるときは、政令で定めるところにより、関係行政機関その他の者に対し、資料の提出を求めることができる。 art-55-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-9/par-2 If the Minister of Finance finds it to be necessary to do so in order to prepare the statistics prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the minister may ask the relevant administrative organs and other such persons to submit materials, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-55-9/par-2: 前項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第五十五条の九第一項 (Article 55-9, paragraph (1)), art-55-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-9/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第五十五条の九第二項（対外の貸借及び国際収支に関する統計） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-9/par-2 --- ## 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