# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第五十五条の五 (Article 55-5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-5. 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: 第五十五条の五 (Article 55-5)（活動の援助） — address `art-55-5` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-5 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条の五（活動の援助） — Assistance for Activities caption: machine translation, not official art-55-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-5 **第一項** 入国者収容所長又は地方出入国在留管理局長（以下この章及び第八章において「入国者収容所長等」という。）は、法務省令で定めるところにより、被収容者に対し、知的、教育的及び娯楽的活動その他の活動について、援助を与えるように努めなければならない。 art-55-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-5/par-1 The director of the immigration detention center or the director of the regional immigration services bureau (hereinafter referred to as the "director of the immigration detention center, etc." in this Chapter and Chapter VIII) must endeavor to give detainees assistance with intellectual, educational and recreational activities and other activities, pursuant to Ministry of Justice Order. machine translation, not official **第二項** 入国者収容所長等は、前項の規定による援助の措置として、入国者収容所等に書籍を備え付けるものとする。この場合において、備え付けた書籍の閲覧の方法は、入国者収容所長等が定めるものとする。 art-55-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-5/par-2 The director of the immigration detention center, etc. is to keep books in the immigration detention center, etc. as a measure of assistance under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. In this case, the method of reading the books kept is to be determined by the director of the immigration detention center, etc. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-55-5/par-2: 前項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の五第一項 (Article 55-5, paragraph (1)), art-55-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-5/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の五第二項（活動の援助） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-5/par-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令 第十四条第一項（出入国在留管理庁長官に対する審査の申請に関する技術的読替え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/410CO0000000178/art-14/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令 第十五条第一項（出入国在留管理庁長官に対する審査の申請の裁決に関する技術的読替え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/410CO0000000178/art-15/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令 第十六条第二項（法務大臣に対する再審査の申請に関する技術的読替え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/410CO0000000178/art-16/par-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令 第十八条第二項（出入国在留管理庁長官に対する事実の申告に関する技術的読替え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/410CO0000000178/art-18/par-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第五十条の三第一項（活動の援助） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-50-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-50-3/par-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 - claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch immigration-control-act-20260913T134912-014, translated 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