# 出入国管理及び難民認定法別表第一の二の表の高度専門職の項の下欄の基準を定める省令 / Ministerial Order for Defining the Criteria in the Right-Hand Column of the Entry for Highly Skilled Professional in the Appended Table I(2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) - Law: 出入国管理及び難民認定法別表第一の二の表の高度専門職の項の下欄の基準を定める省令 (Ministerial Order for Defining the Criteria in the Right-Hand Column of the Entry for Highly Skilled Professional in the Appended Table I(2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act), 平成二十六年法務省令第三十七号 - English title "Ministerial Order for Defining the Criteria in the Right-Hand Column of the Entry for Highly Skilled Professional in the Appended Table I(2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: MinisterialOrdinance — 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-4269-37/art-3` - Text in force since: 2024-06-10 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/highly-skilled-professional-criteria-ordinance/suppl-4269-37/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426M60000010037/suppl-4269-37/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条 suppl-4269-37/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/highly-skilled-professional-criteria-ordinance/suppl-4269-37/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426M60000010037/suppl-4269-37/art-3 **第一項** この省令の施行の日前又はこの省令の施行の日以後に旧法別表第一の五の表の下欄（ニに係る部分に限る。）に掲げる活動のうち改正法附則第三条第五項各号に掲げるものを行う者としての同表の上欄の在留資格をもって本邦に在留していた外国人に対する第二条第一項第二号の適用については、当該在留資格をもって本邦に在留して当該各号に掲げる活動を行っていた期間を算入するものとする。 suppl-4269-37/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/highly-skilled-professional-criteria-ordinance/suppl-4269-37/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426M60000010037/suppl-4269-37/art-3/par-1 With regard to the application of Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii) to a foreign national who, before the date of enforcement of this Ministerial Order or on or after that date, was staying in Japan with the status of residence in the left-hand column of the Appended Table I(5) of the Former Act as a person who engages in any of the activities listed in the items of Article 3, paragraph (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Amending Act among the activities listed in the right-hand column of that table (limited to the part pertaining to (d)), the period during which the foreign national was staying in Japan with that status of residence and engaged in the activity listed in the relevant item is to be included. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4269-37/art-3/par-1: 第二条第一項第二号 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法別表第一の二の表の高度専門職の項の下欄の基準を定める省令 第二条第一項第二号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-2/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/highly-skilled-professional-criteria-ordinance/art-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426M60000010037/art-2/par-1/item-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 出入国管理及び難民認定法別表第一の二の表の高度専門職の項の下欄の基準を定める省令 — the text in force from 2024-06-10 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/426M60000010037/20240610_506M60000010037), retrieved 2026-10-20 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Ministerial Order for Defining the Criteria in the Right-Hand Column of the Entry for Highly Skilled Professional in the Appended Table I(2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3751/tb), retrieved 2026-10-20 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch highly-skilled-professional-criteria-ordinance-20261020T081635-001, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 出入国管理及び難民認定法別表第一の二の表の高度専門職の項の下欄の基準を定める省令 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-20