Article 3.

 Any alien who falls within any one of the following items shall not enter Japan.

(1) Any person who does not possess a valid passport. (This shall not apply to a crewman possessing a valid crewman's pocket-ledger.)

(2) Any person who has an intention of landing in Japan without being endorsed by stamping the permission for landing or obtaining landing permission (hereinafter referred to as "landing permission, etc.") from an Immigration Inspector (except for those who fall within the preceding item).

2.  An alien who seeks to become a crewman in Japan shall be deemed a crewman for the purpose of the application of the preceding paragraph.

Article 4.  Deleted

Article 5.

 Any alien who falls within any one of the following items shall be denied permission for landing in Japan:

(1) A patient who falls in any of the following categories of the infections, which are provided for by the Law Concerning Prevention of Infections and Medical Care for Patients of Infections (Law No.114, 1998); category 1 or category 2 infections or designated infections (in respect of the infections to which the provisions of Article 19 or 20 of the Act shall apply, in accordance with the Cabinet Order under the provisions of Article 7 of the Act) including a person who is regarded as a patient of category 1 or category 2 infections or designated infections under the provisions of Article 8 of the Act, or any person who has symptoms of new infections;

(2) Any person who is mentally defective as prescribed by the Law Concerning Mental Health And Welfare For The Mentally Disabled (Law No.123 of 1950);

(3) Any person who is a pauper, vagrant, etc., and is likely to become a burden on the Japanese Government or a local public entity because of inability to make a living;

(4) Any person who has been convicted of a violation of any law or regulation of Japan, or of any other country, and sentenced to penal servitude or imprisonment for 1 year or more, or to a penalty equivalent thereto except for those convicted of a political offense;

(5) Any person who has been convicted of a violation of any law or regulation of Japan or of any other country relating to control of narcotics, marijuana, opium, stimulants or psychotropic substances and sentenced to a penalty;

(5)-2 Any person who has been convicted of a violation of any law or regulation of Japan or of any other country or has been deported from Japan in accordance with the provision of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act or expelled from any other country in accordance with the provision of any law or regulation of that country for killing, injuring, assaulting or threatening a person, or damaging or destroying a building or other thing in relation to the process or result of an international-scale competition or a competition of the equivalent scale or an international-scale conference (hereinafter referred to as "international competition, etc.")or with intent to prevent smooth operation thereof, and is likely to kill, injure, assault or threaten a person, or damage or destroy a building or other thing in relation to the process or result of an international competition, etc. held in Japan or with intent to prevent the smooth operation thereof, at the venue of the international competition, etc. or within the area of a municipality where the venue is located (This refers to "ward" where Tokyo Special Wards exist or for cities designated in Article 252-19, Paragraph 1 of the Local Autonomy Law (Law No.67 of 1947).) or in a neighboring place provided for use by unspecified or many people;

(6) Any person who illegally possesses any narcotics or psychotropic substances as provided for by the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Control Law (Law No.14 of 1953), or marijuana as provided for by the Marijuana Control Law (Law No.124 of 1948), or poppy, opium or poppy plant as provided for by the Opium Law (Law No.71 of 1954), or stimulants or raw materials used for stimulants as provided for by the Stimulants Control Law (Law No.252 of 1951), or any other paraphernalia used for smoking or eating opium;

(7) Any person who engages or has engaged in prostitution, or procuring prostitutes for other persons or solicitation or furnishing a place for prostitution, or any other business directly connected with prostitution;

(8) Any person who illegally possesses firearms or swords, etc. provided for by the Law for Controlling the Possession, etc. of Firearms, Swords, etc. (Law No.6 of 1958) or explosives provided for by the Explosives Control Law (Law No.149 of 1950);

(9) Any person who has been denied landing for coming under the provision of either Item (6)or the preceding item and 1 year has not yet elapsed from the date of the denial, or any alien who has been deported from Japan for coming under any one of the items of Article 24 (except for Item (4), Sub-items (1) to (o) and Item (4)-3) and 5 years has not elapsed from the date of the deportation;

(9)-2 Any person who has been pronounced a sentence of penal servitude or imprisonment on the charge of a crime referred to in Book II, Chapters XII, XVI to XIX, XXIII, XXVI, XXVII, XXXI, XXXIII, XXXVI, XXXVII or XXXIX of the Penal Code of Japan (Law No. 45 of 1907), or in Article 1, 1-2 or 1-3 (except for the parts concerning Article 222 or 261 of the Penal Code of Japan) of the Law concerning Punishment of Physical Violence and Others (Law No. 60 of 1926), or in the Law for Prevention and Disposition of Robbery, Theft, etc. (Law No. 9 of 1930) during a stay in Japan with the status of residence described in the upper column of the Annexed Table I, and who has left Japan after that, and the judgement has become final when the person is outside of Japan, and five years have not yet elapsed from the date when the judgement became final;

(10) Any person who has been deported from Japan for coming under any one of Article 24, Item (4), Sub-items (1) to (o);

(11) Any person who attempts or advocates the overthrow of the Constitution of Japan or the Government formed thereunder by means of force or violence, or who organizes or is a member of a political party or any organization which attempts or advocates the same;

(12) Any person who organizes, or is a member of, or is closely affiliated with any of the following political parties or organizations:

1.  Any political party or organization that encourages acts of violence or assaulting, killing, or injuring of officials of the Government or local public entities for the reason of their being such officials;

    

2.  Any political party or organization that encourages the illegal damage or destruction of public installations or facilities;

    

3.  Any political party or organization that encourages an act of dispute such as stopping or preventing normal maintenance or operation of security equipment of a plant or place of work.

(13) Any person who attempts to prepare, distribute, or display printed matters, motion pictures, or any other documents or drawings to attain the objectives of any political party or organization provided for in Item (11) or the preceding item;

(14) Any person except those coming under the preceding items who the Minister of Justice has reasonable grounds to believe is likely to commit an act which could be detrimental to the interests or public security of Japan.

2.  Even in the case where an alien seeking to land in Japan does not come under any of the items of the preceding paragraph, if the country whereof he is a national or citizen denies landing of a Japanese national therein for any reasons other than those mentioned in the items of the same paragraph, the Minister of Justice may deny his landing for the same reasons.