# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第七条 (Article 7) - 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: 第七条 (Article 7)（信号機の信号等に従う義務） — address `art-7` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（信号機の信号等に従う義務） — (Obligation to Obey Traffic Light Signals and Alternative Signals) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-7 **第一項** 道路を通行する歩行者等又は車両等は、信号機の表示する信号又は警察官等の手信号等（前条第一項後段の場合においては、当該手信号等）に従わなければならない。 art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-7/par-1 A pedestrian, etc. or the driver of a vehicle or streetcar that is using a road must obey the signals indicated by traffic lights or the alternative signals of an officer (or the alternative signals given in a case as referred to in the second sentence of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-7/par-1: 前条第一項 → 道路交通法 第六条第一項 (Article 6, paragraph (1)), art-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-6/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第四条第一項（公安委員会の交通規制） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-4/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百十九条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-119/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-119/par-1/item-2 - 道路交通法 第百二十一条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-121/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-121/par-1/item-1 - 道路交通法 第百二十一条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-121/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-121/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-traffic-act-20261013T074321-001, 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