Any person who has submitted a report on personal financial resources that contains a false statement with regard to Financial Resources for the purpose of causing the court or the judge to reach a mistaken judgment is punished by a non-criminal fine of not more than 100,000 yen.
Financial Resources
「資力」
The total of the cash, deposits and other similar assets a Cabinet Order (政令) sets that belong to a person.
Short name set inArticle 36-2, paragraph (1)
personal financial resources
「資力申告書」
A document reporting a person's financial resources (資力), the total of their cash, deposits and other similar assets a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, and their breakdown, which a defendant (and, under Article 37-3, a suspect) must submit when asking for defense counsel to be appointed by the court.
Defined inArticle 36-2, paragraph (1)