# 国籍法施行規則 / Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act — 第五条 (Article 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/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: 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: 第五条 (Article 5)（訳文の添付） — address `art-5` - Text in force since: 2016-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/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（訳文の添付） — (Attachment of Translation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-5 **第一項** 届書又は申請書の添付書類が外国語によつて作成されているときは、その書類に翻訳者を明らかにした訳文を添付しなければならない。 art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-5/par-1 If attached documents of a written notification or written application are prepared in a foreign language, translations of these documents must be attached to them, with the translator being identified. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国籍法施行規則 附則第二項（特例による国籍取得の届出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/suppl-3599-39/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/suppl-3599-39/par-2 - 国籍法施行規則 附則第二条第一項（経過措置及び特例による国籍取得の届出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/suppl-4209-73/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/suppl-4209-73/art-2/par-1 --- ## Sources - 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 — 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