# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第三十七条 (Article 37) - 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: 第三十七条 (Article 37) — address `art-37` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-37 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-37 - 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. --- ### 第三十七条 art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-37 **第一項** 車両等は、交差点で右折する場合において、当該交差点において直進し、又は左折しようとする車両等があるときは、当該車両等の進行妨害をしてはならない。 art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-37/par-1 When making a right turn at an intersection, a vehicle or streetcar must not obstruct the progress of other vehicles and streetcars passing straight through or turning left at the intersection. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第三十七条の二第一項（環状交差点における他の車両等との関係等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-37-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-37-2/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百二十条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-120/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-120/par-1/item-2 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 190 — 道路交通法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13