# 労働基準法 / Labor Standards Act — 第五条 (Article 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-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: 労働基準法 (Labor Standards Act), 昭和二十二年法律第四十九号 - English title "Labor Standards 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: 第五条 (Article 5)（強制労働の禁止） — address `art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-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. --- ### 第五条（強制労働の禁止） — (Prohibition of Forced Labor) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-5 **第一項** 使用者は、暴行、脅迫、監禁その他精神又は身体の自由を不当に拘束する手段によつて、労働者の意思に反して労働を強制してはならない。 art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-5/par-1 An employer must not force a worker to work against their will through the use of physical violence, intimidation, confinement, or any other means that unjustly restricts that worker's mental or physical freedom. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法 第百十六条第一項（適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-116/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-116/par-1 - 労働基準法 第百十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-117/par-1 - 労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の保護等に関する法律 第四十四条第一項（労働基準法の適用に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/worker-dispatch-act/art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-44/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働基準法 — the text in force from 2026-07-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000049/20260717_508AC0000000060), retrieved 2026-09-27 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Labor Standards Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4913/tb), retrieved 2026-09-27 - This site's parser, version 213 — 労働基準法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-27