# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第四十三条 (Article 43) - 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: 第四十三条 (Article 43)（指定場所における一時停止） — address `art-43` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-43 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-43 - 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. --- ### 第四十三条（指定場所における一時停止） — (Coming to a Stop at Designated Places) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-43 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-43 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-43 **第一項** 車両等は、交通整理が行なわれていない交差点又はその手前の直近において、道路標識等により一時停止すべきことが指定されているときは、道路標識等による停止線の直前（道路標識等による停止線が設けられていない場合にあつては、交差点の直前）で一時停止しなければならない。この場合において、当該車両等は、第三十六条第二項の規定に該当する場合のほか、交差道路を通行する車両等の進行妨害をしてはならない。 art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-43/par-1 If road signs or markings specify that a vehicle or streetcar must come to a stop at or immediately in front of an uncontrolled intersection, the vehicle or streetcar must come to a stop immediately in front of the stop line indicated by road signs or markings (or immediately in front of the intersection, if a stop line is not indicated by road signs or markings). In such a case, the vehicle or streetcar must not obstruct the progress of a vehicle or streetcar traveling down the intersecting road, except in a case falling under Article 36, paragraph (2). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-43/par-1: 第三十六条第二項 → 道路交通法 第三十六条第二項 (Article 36, paragraph (2)), art-36/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-36/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第百十九条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-119/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-119/par-1/item-5 - 道路交通法 第百十九条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-119/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-119/par-3 --- ## 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