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January 2007
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English Translation of Japanese Laws (Japanese Law Links)

The corresponding page in Japanese offers a list of full translation of more than 100 Japanese law, as well as a number of partial translations. The list is not meant to be an exclusive list of currently applicable legislation, it also includes translations before amendments/abolitions of the corresponding legislation.

The list hasn't been arranged in English alphabetical order, but English names are found besides the Japanese names. If you go to the page in Japanese ("Japanese" above right), the use of Ctl + F keys (Command key + F key for Mac) and English key words will enable you to find the law you are looking for.

Please note that to date, there is no official translation of Japanese law. This is the reason why most of the links claim that the provided translation is "unofficial" or "provisional". When there is a choice of more than one term in English (e.g., Act and Law), one of them is more conventionally used than the other but neither is official, and neither is wrong. Do not waste your time trying to determine whether a translated term or title is "official" in this sense.

Products of the translation efforts of the government are finally available, see Translations of Laws and Regulations.

Under titles such as "Collection of 100 Japanese Laws", "Links to Translations of over 100 Japanese Laws", this list is included in JGuide (Stanford), Toshiba Library (Columbia), Japanese Legal Research (Washington), Cornell Law School Library, WorldLII, Foreign & Int'l Legal Databases (NYU), findlaw.com, Asian Law Center (Melbourne), Gesetzetexte (Regensburg), japanreference.com, inter-lawyer.com, Yahoo! Japan directory and links of the Japanese Society of International Law. These sites will also show you other lists of links related to Japanese law. Japanzine, English-language magazine, included this site in its annual "Best Of Japan On The Web" in 2004.

　If you know any other site with a Japanese law in English, please let me know.