# 国籍法施行規則 / Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act — 第二条 (Article 2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-2. 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: 国籍法施行規則 (Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act), 昭和五十九年法務省令第三十九号 - English title "Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality 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: 第二条 (Article 2)（帰化の許可の申請） — address `art-2` - Text in force since: 2016-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（帰化の許可の申請） — (Application for Permission of Naturalization) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-2 **第一項** 帰化の許可の申請は、帰化をしようとする者の住所地を管轄する法務局又は地方法務局の長を経由してしなければならない。 art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-2/par-1 An application for permission of naturalization must be made through the Director of the Legal Affairs Bureau or District Legal Affairs Bureau having jurisdiction over the place of domicile of a person who intends to naturalize. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "An application for permission of naturalization must be made through the Director of the Legal Affairs Bureau or District Legal Affairs Bureau having jurisdiction over the place of domicile of a person who intends to nationalize." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3926/tb **第二項** 前項の申請は、申請をしようとする者が自ら法務局又は地方法務局に出頭して、書面によつてしなければならない。 art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-2/par-2 The application set forth in the preceding paragraph must be made in writing by way of the person who intends to make the application appearing in person at the Legal Affairs Bureau or District Legal Affairs Bureau. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 申請書には、次の事項を記載して申請をする者が署名し、帰化に必要な条件を備えていることを証するに足りる書類を添付しなければならない。 art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-2/par-3 A written application must state the following matters and be signed by the person who makes the application, and a document sufficient to certify that the person who intends to naturalize meets the necessary conditions for naturalization must be attached thereto: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A written application must state the following matters and be signed by the person who makes the application, and a document sufficient to certify that the person who intends to nationalize meets the necessary conditions for naturalization must be attached thereto:" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3926/tb **一** 帰化をしようとする者の氏名、現に有する国籍、出生の年月日及び場所、住所並びに男女の別 art-2/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-2/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-2/par-3/item-1 the name, current nationality, date and place of birth, domicile, and sex of the person who intends to naturalize; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 父母の氏名及び本籍、父又は母が外国人であるときは、その氏名及び国籍 art-2/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-2/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-2/par-3/item-2 the names and the registered domicile of the parents of the person who intends to naturalize, and if the mother or father is a foreign national, their name and nationality; and Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "the names and the registered domicile of the parents of the person who intends to nationalize, and if the mother or father is a foreign national, their name and nationality; and" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3926/tb **三** 帰化の許否に関し参考となるべき事項 art-2/par-3/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-2/par-3/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-2/par-3/item-3 matters that will be a helpful reference for determining whether or not to permit naturalization. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-2/par-2: 前項 → 国籍法施行規則 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-2/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国籍法施行規則 第二条第二項（帰化の許可の申請） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-2/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act, written 2026-11-03 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 国籍法施行規則 — the text in force from 2016-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/359M50000010039/20160401_428M60000010009), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act (国籍法施行規則), Article 2, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3926/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act (国籍法施行規則), Article 2, paragraph (3) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3926/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act (国籍法施行規則), Article 2, paragraph (3), item (ii) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3926/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3926/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 222 — 国籍法施行規則 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02