The present invention provides glucopyranosyloxypyrazole derivatives
represented by the general formula: ##STR00001## wherein R.sup.1,
R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 represent a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom; R.sup.4
represents a lower alkyl group or a halo(lower alkyl) group; and R.sup.5
represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group, a
lower alkylthio group, etc., a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof
or a prodrug thereof., which exert an excellent inhibitory activity in
human SGLT2, and therefore are useful as drugs for the prevention or
treatment of a disease associated with hyperglycemia such as diabetes,
diabetic complications or obesity, pharmaceutically acceptable salts
thereof or prodrugs thereof, production intermediates thereof and
pharmaceutical uses thereof.