①If the Chief of Prefectural Police Headquarters, etc. receives a request from the person targeted by stalking, etc. for assistance in preventing by themselves the harm from that stalking, etc. and finds the request appropriate, the Chief of Prefectural Police Headquarters, etc. is to provide the person targeted with instruction on measures for preventing by themselves the harm from that stalking, etc. and any other necessary assistance specified by the National Public Safety Commission Rules.

②In providing the assistance referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Chief of Prefectural Police Headquarters, etc. must endeavor to work in close cooperation with the relevant administrative organs or relevant public or private organizations.

③Beyond what is provided for in paragraph (1), the Chief of Prefectural Police Headquarters, etc. must endeavor to take measures for preventing harm from stalking, etc.

④Beyond what is provided for in paragraphs (1) and (2), necessary matters concerning the acceptance of requests under paragraph (1) and the provision of assistance are specified by the National Public Safety Commission Rules.

①A person who is involved, in the course of their official duties, in the protection of the person targeted, the investigation, the trial, etc. relating to stalking, etc. (referred to as a "person involved through official duties" in the following paragraph) must, in performing those duties, give sufficient consideration to ensuring the safety of the person targeted by that stalking, etc. and to maintaining confidentiality.

②The national government and local public entities are to provide persons involved through official duties with the training and awareness-raising necessary to deepen their understanding of the human rights of persons targeted by stalking, etc., the characteristics of stalking, etc., and the like.

③Beyond what is provided for in the preceding two paragraphs, the national government, local public entities, etc. must endeavor to take the measures necessary for preventing stalking, etc. in managing the personal information they hold.

①The national government and local public entities must endeavor to provide persons targeted by stalking, etc. with support through Women's Consultation and Support Centers and other appropriate facilities and support for stays in private facilities, and to give consideration to their moving into public rental housing.

②A relevant business operator that has provided services relating to stalking, etc. is to endeavor, at the request of the person targeted by that stalking, etc., to take measures to prevent that stalking, etc. from being engaged in, and to take other such action.

③If stalking, etc. is being engaged in, the residents of the area in which that stalking, etc. is being engaged in, and persons who employ the person targeted by that stalking, etc. and the heads of schools that the person targeted attends, are to endeavor to assist the person targeted.

The national government and local public entities must endeavor to promote surveys and research on methods for rehabilitating persons who have engaged in stalking, etc., methods for restoring the physical and mental health of persons targeted by stalking, etc., and the like.

The national government and local public entities must endeavor to take the following measures contributing to the prevention of stalking, etc. and the protection of persons targeted by stalking, etc.:

In order to promote the support, etc. referred to in Article 9, paragraph (1) and the preceding two Articles, the national government and local public entities must endeavor to develop the necessary systems, and to take the financial measures necessary for implementing policies relating to support for voluntary organizational activities in the private sector and any other necessary measures.

①When the Chief of Prefectural Police Headquarters, etc. finds it necessary in order to give a warning, the Chief of Prefectural Police Headquarters, etc. may, to the extent necessary, request a person found to have committed an act in violation of the provisions of Article 3 or any other person concerned to make a report or submit materials, or have police personnel question a person found to have committed that act or any other person concerned.

②When the Public Safety Commission finds it necessary in order to issue a prohibition order, etc. (including a disposition extending the period of validity of a prohibition order, etc. under Article 5, paragraph (9)), the Public Safety Commission may, to the extent necessary, request a person found to have committed an act in violation of the provisions of Article 3 or any other person concerned to make a report or submit materials, or have police personnel question a person found to have committed that act or any other person concerned.

①With regard to prohibition orders, etc. and the hearings referred to in Article 5, paragraph (2), the Public Safety Commission in this Act is the Public Safety Commission having jurisdiction over the location of the current domicile or residence of the person targeted by the act in violation of the provisions of Article 3 to which that prohibition order, etc. or that hearing relates, the location of the domicile or residence of that person targeted at the time the act was committed, the location of the current domicile (or residence, if the person has no domicile in Japan or the person's domicile is unknown) of the person who committed the act, or the place where the act was committed.

②If the Public Safety Commission has concluded the hearing referred to in Article 5, paragraph (2), the Public Safety Commission is to be able to issue the prohibition order, etc. relating to that hearing even if any of the following circumstances arises, and that other Public Safety Commission, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, is not to be able to issue the prohibition order, etc. relating to that hearing:

③With regard to warnings, the Chief of Prefectural Police Headquarters, etc. in this Act is the Chief of Prefectural Police Headquarters, etc. having jurisdiction over the location of the current domicile or residence of the person targeted by the act in violation of the provisions of Article 3 to which that warning relates, the location of the domicile or residence of that person targeted at the time the act was committed, the location of the current domicile (or residence, if the person has no domicile in Japan or the person's domicile is unknown) of the person who committed the act, or the place where the act was committed.

Affairs falling within the authority of the Hokkaido Public Safety Commission under this Act may, as provided by Cabinet Order, be delegated to District Public Safety Commissions.

Affairs falling within the authority of the chief of the Hokkaido Police Headquarters under this Act may, as provided by Cabinet Order, be assigned to Chiefs of District Headquarters to perform.

①Affairs falling within the authority of the Public Safety Commission under this Act may be assigned to the Chief of Prefectural Police Headquarters, etc. to perform.

②A District Public Safety Commission may have a Chief of a District Headquarters or the Chief of a Police Station perform the affairs referred to in the preceding paragraph, from among the affairs delegated to it by the Hokkaido Public Safety Commission pursuant to the provisions of Article 15.

A person who has engaged in stalking is punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than 1,000,000 yen.

①A person who has engaged in stalking in violation of a prohibition order, etc. (limited to one relating to Article 5, paragraph (1), item (i); the same applies hereinafter) is punished by imprisonment for not more than two years or a fine of not more than 2,000,000 yen.

②Beyond what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, the same as under that paragraph applies to a person who has engaged in stalking by engaging in pursuit, etc. or obtaining location information without consent, etc. in violation of a prohibition order, etc.

Beyond what is provided for in the preceding Article, a person who has violated a prohibition order, etc. is punished by imprisonment for not more than six months or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen.

In applying this Act, care must be taken not to unjustly infringe on the rights of the citizens, and this Act must never be abused for any other purpose deviating from its original purpose.