# 出入国管理及び難民認定法第七条第一項第二号の基準を定める省令 / Ministerial Order to Provide for Criteria Pursuant to Article 7, Paragraph (1), Item (ii) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - Law: 出入国管理及び難民認定法第七条第一項第二号の基準を定める省令 (Ministerial Order to Provide for Criteria Pursuant to Article 7, Paragraph (1), Item (ii) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act), 平成二年法務省令第十六号 - English title "Ministerial Order to Provide for Criteria Pursuant to Article 7, Paragraph (1), Item (ii) 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-5069-33/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/landing-criteria-ordinance/suppl-5069-33/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/402M50000010016/suppl-5069-33/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条 suppl-5069-33/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/landing-criteria-ordinance/suppl-5069-33/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/402M50000010016/suppl-5069-33/art-4 **第一項** 申請人が、大学等に入学して専ら日本語教育を受けようとする場合（専ら夜間通学して又は通信により教育を受けようとする場合を除く。）において、当該大学等が、施行日の一年前から施行日の前日までの間に、法別表第一の四の表の留学の在留資格をもって在留する外国人であって専ら日本語の教育を受ける者を受け入れていたものであるときは、施行日から令和十一年三月三十一日までの間は、当該申請については、新省令の留学活動の項の下欄第六号の規定は、適用しない。 suppl-5069-33/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/landing-criteria-ordinance/suppl-5069-33/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/402M50000010016/suppl-5069-33/art-4/par-1 In the case where the applicant seeks to enter a university, etc. to exclusively receive Japanese language education (excluding cases in which the applicant seeks to exclusively study at a night school or through education by correspondence), and that university, etc. accepted, during the period from one year before the Effective Date to the day before the Effective Date, foreign nationals residing with the status of residence of "Student" in Appended Table I (4) of the Act who exclusively receive instruction in the Japanese language, the provisions of item (vi) of the right-hand column of the entry for student activities in the New Ministerial Order do not apply to that application during the period from the Effective Date to March 31, 2029. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5069-33/art-4/par-1: 法別表第一の四 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 別表第一 (Appended Table 1), appdx-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/appdx-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第七条第一項第二号の基準を定める省令 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/402M50000010016/20260401_508M60000010012), retrieved 2026-10-20 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Ministerial Order to Provide for Criteria Pursuant to Article 7, Paragraph (1), Item (ii) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3626/tb), retrieved 2026-10-20 - claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch landing-criteria-ordinance-20261020T081643-006, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 出入国管理及び難民認定法第七条第一項第二号の基準を定める省令 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-20