# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第十五条 (Article 15) - Law: 道路交通法 (Road Traffic Act), 昭和三十五年法律第百五号 - English title "Road Traffic 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: 第十五条 (Article 15)（通行方法の指示） — address `art-15` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-15 - 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. --- ### 第十五条（通行方法の指示） — (Traffic Instructions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-15 **第一項** 警察官等は、第十条第一項若しくは第二項、第十二条若しくは第十三条の規定に違反して道路を通行している歩行者又はこれらの規定若しくは第十四条の二若しくは第十四条の三の規定に違反して道路を通行している遠隔操作型小型車の遠隔操作を行う者に対し、当該各条に規定する通行方法によるべきことを指示することができる。 art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-15/par-1 An officer may instruct a pedestrian who is using a road in violation of Article 10, paragraph (1) or (2), Article 12, or Article 13, or a person who performs remote operation of a remotely operated small vehicle that is traveling on a road in violation of those provisions or Article 14-2 or Article 14-3, to comply with the traffic rules prescribed in the relevant Articles. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-15/par-1: 第十条第一項 → 道路交通法 第十条第一項 (Article 10, paragraph (1)), art-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-10/par-1 - art-15/par-1: 第二項 → 道路交通法 第十条第二項 (Article 10, paragraph (2)), art-10/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-10/par-2 - art-15/par-1: 第十二条 → 道路交通法 第十二条 (Article 12), art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-12 - art-15/par-1: 第十三条 → 道路交通法 第十三条 (Article 13), art-13 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-13 - art-15/par-1: 第十四条の二 → 道路交通法 第十四条の二 (Article 14-2), art-14-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-14-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-14-2 - art-15/par-1: 第十四条の三 → 道路交通法 第十四条の三 (Article 14-3), art-14-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-14-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-14-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第百二十一条第一項第七号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-121/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-121/par-1/item-7 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 道路交通法 — the text in force from 2026-07-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000105/20260721_508AC0000000052), retrieved 2026-10-13 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Road Traffic Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2962/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-traffic-act-20261013T074321-002, translated 2026-10-13 - This site's parser, version 190 — 道路交通法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13