(2) No provision of the present Constitution can be modified
by the Imperial House Law.

Article 75. No modification can be introduced into the
Constitution, or into the Imperial House Law, during the time of
a Regency.

Article 76. Existing legal enactments, such as laws,
regulations, Ordinances, or by whatever names they may be called,
shall, so far as they do not conflict with the present
Constitution, continue in force.

(2) All existing contracts or orders, that entail
obligations upon the Government, and that are connected with
expenditure, shall come within the scope of Article 67.

(The above is the semi-official translation, which appeared in H.
Ito, Commentaries on the Constitution of the Empire of Japan,
trans. M. Ito, 1889.)