A person who violates a protective order is punished by imprisonment for not more than five years or by a fine of not more than five million yen, or both.
秘密保持命令に違反した者は、五年以下の拘禁刑若しくは五百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。
The offence prescribed in the preceding paragraph may not be prosecuted without a complaint.
前項の罪は、告訴がなければ公訴を提起することができない。
The offence prescribed in paragraph (1) also applies to a person who commits the crime outside Japan.
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protective order
「秘密保持命令」
A court order under Article 81, paragraph (1), made by ruling at a party's request in a lawsuit under Article 24 to stop or prevent an infringement, forbidding a party, etc. (当事者等), counsel or assistant in court to use a trade secret (営業秘密) that comes up in the case for any purpose other than conducting the lawsuit, or to disclose it to anyone not bound by such an order.
Short name set inArticle 81, paragraph (2)
fine
罰金
A criminal punishment of paying money to the state, of 10,000 yen or more, or less where it is reduced (Penal Code, Article 15). It ranks below imprisonment (拘禁刑) and above penal detention (拘留) and a petty fine (科料) (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). A person who cannot pay it in full is held in a workhouse (労役場) for one day to two years, or up to three years where fines are imposed together, a period set when the sentence is passed (Article 18, paragraphs (1), (3) and (4)); not within thirty days of the sentence becoming final without the person's consent (paragraph (5)). If it is not enforced for three years after the sentence becomes final, the person is released from it by prescription (Articles 31 and 32, item (v)); the three years do not run while its execution is suspended under law or the person is abroad, and an act of execution interrupts them (Articles 33 and 34, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 15, 18, 31 to 34 as a reference.
imprisonment
拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term can be raised to thirty years where the punishment is aggravated, or cut below one month where it is reduced (Article 14, paragraph (2)). To help the person reform and rehabilitate, they may be made to do work or given guidance (Article 12, paragraph (3)). It ranks below the death penalty and above a fine (罰金) among the principal punishments (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). It replaced imprisonment with work (懲役) and imprisonment without work (禁錮) when the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) came into force (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2), and a person sentenced to either is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.