# 外国為替及び外国貿易法 / Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — 第七十一条の二 (Article 71-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-71-2. 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: 第七十一条の二 (Article 71-2) — address `art-71-2` - 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-71-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-71-2 - 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. --- ### 第七十一条の二 art-71-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-71-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-71-2 **第一項** 本人特定事項を隠蔽する目的で、第十八条第四項（第十八条の五、第十八条の六第一項、第二十二条の二第二項及び第二十二条の三において準用する場合を含む。）の規定に違反したときは、その違反行為をした者は、五十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-71-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-71-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-71-2/par-1 If a person has violated the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (4) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 18-5, Article 18-6, paragraph (1), Article 22-2, paragraph (2), and Article 22-3) in order to conceal identifying information, the person that has committed the violation is subject to a fine of not more than 500,000 yen. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a person that has violated the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (4) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 18-5, Article 18-6 paragraph (1), Article 22-2, paragraph (2), and Article 22-3) in order to conceal identification information the person that has committed the violation is subject to a fine of not more than 500,000 yen." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb --- ## Cites - art-71-2/par-1: 第十八条第四項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十八条第四項 (Article 18, paragraph (4)), art-18/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18/par-4 - art-71-2/par-1: 第十八条の五 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十八条の五 (Article 18-5), art-18-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-5 - art-71-2/par-1: 第十八条の六第一項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十八条の六第一項 (Article 18-6, paragraph (1)), art-18-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-6/par-1 - art-71-2/par-1: 第二十二条の二第二項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第二十二条の二第二項 (Article 22-2, paragraph (2)), art-22-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-22-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-22-2/par-2 - art-71-2/par-1: 第二十二条の三 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第二十二条の三 (Article 22-3), art-22-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-22-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-22-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第七十二条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-72/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-72/par-1/item-5 --- ## 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 71-2, paragraph (1) — 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