Japanese legal terms explainedRights, roles and legal effects
Petty fine
科料
The lightest criminal punishment: paying 1,000 yen or more but less than 10,000 yen (Penal Code, Articles 9, 10 and 17). A person who cannot pay it in full is held in a workhouse (労役場) for one day to thirty days (Article 18, paragraph (2)).
Provisions and sources it draws on
Where the laws use it
3 laws in force use it in this sense, in 28 provisions; there the word opens this explanation.
- 23 provisions
Article 9 Article 17 Article 18 and more
- 3 provisions
- 2 provisions
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