# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第三条 (Article 3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-3. 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: 出入国管理及び難民認定法 (Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act), 昭和二十六年政令第三百十九号 - English title "Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition 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. - Issued as a Cabinet Order and given the force of an Act, which is why its number says 政令: Some rules made during the Allied occupation were issued as Cabinet Orders, as orders implementing Japan's acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, and an Act passed in 1952 gave them the force of an Act. They keep the Cabinet Order number they were issued under, which is why e-Gov lists the law as an Act while its number says 政令 (Cabinet Order). The Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (出入国管理及び難民認定法) is one: it was promulgated in 1951 as the Immigration Control Order (出入国管理令), Cabinet Order No. 319 of 1951, has had the force of an Act under Article 4 of Act No. 126 of 1952, took its present title on 1 January 1982, and every amendment on e-Gov's record of it was made by an Act. - Provision: 第三条 (Article 3)（外国人の入国） — address `art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/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（外国人の入国） — (Entry of a Foreign National) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-3 **第一項** 次の各号のいずれかに該当する外国人は、本邦に入つてはならない。 art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-3/par-1 A foreign national who falls under any of the following items must not enter Japan: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 有効な旅券を所持しない者（有効な乗員手帳を所持する乗員を除く。） art-3/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-3/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-3/par-1/item-1 a person who does not possess a valid passport (excluding a crew member who possess a valid crew member's pocket-ledger); or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 入国審査官から上陸許可の証印若しくは第九条第四項の規定による記録又は上陸の許可（以下「上陸の許可等」という。）を受けないで本邦に上陸する目的を有する者（前号に掲げる者を除く。） art-3/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-3/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-3/par-1/item-2 a person who seeks to land in Japan without receiving a seal of verification for landing or undergoing the recording of the prescribed data pursuant to the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (4), or without obtaining authorized permission for landing (hereinafter referred to as "permission for landing, etc."), from an immigration inspector (except for those set forth in the preceding item). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 本邦において乗員となる外国人は、前項の規定の適用については、乗員とみなす。 art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-3/par-2 A foreign national who becomes a crew member in Japan is deemed to be a crew member with regard to the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-3/par-1/item-2: 第九条第四項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第九条第四項 (Article 9, paragraph (4)), art-9/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-9/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-9/par-4 - art-3/par-1/item-2: 前号 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第三条第一項第一号 (Article 3, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-3/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-3/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-3/par-1/item-1 - art-3/par-2: 前項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第三条第一項 (Article 3, paragraph (1)), art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-3/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第三条第一項第二号（外国人の入国） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-3/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-3/par-1/item-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第三条第二項（外国人の入国） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-3/par-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第二十四条第一項第一号（退去強制） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-24/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-24/par-1/item-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第四十六条第一項（容疑者の立証責任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-46/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第七十条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-70/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-70/par-1/item-1 --- ## 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 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326CO0000000319/20261001_508AC0000000032), retrieved 2026-10-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3624/tb), retrieved 2026-09-13 - This site's parser, version 223 — 出入国管理及び難民認定法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05