When a person who has committed a crime referred to in Article 2 (excluding item (v)) (limited to persons who caused injury of another) was driving without a license at the time the person committed the crime, such person is subject to punishment by imprisonment for a definite term of not less than 6 months.
When a person who has committed a crime referred to in Article 3 was driving without a license at the time the person committed the crime, such person is subject to punishment by imprisonment for not more than 15 years when the person causes injury; imprisonment for a definite term of not less than 6 months when the person causes death.
When a person who has committed a crime referred to in Article 4 was driving without a license at the time the person committed the crime, such person is subject to punishment by imprisonment for not more than 15 years.
When a person who has committed a crime referred to in the preceding Article was driving without a license at the time the person committed the crime, such person is subject to punishment by imprisonment for not more than 10 years.
(Dangerous Driving Causing Death or Injury)
A person who engages in any of the following acts is subject to punishment by imprisonment for not more than 15 years when the person thereby causes injury of another or imprisonment for a definite…
次に掲げる行為を行い、よって、人を負傷させた者は十五年以下の拘禁刑に処し、人を死亡させた者は一年以上の有期拘禁刑に処する。
Open this provision(Dangerous Driving Causing Death or Injury)
an act of driving when the person lacks the skills to control the motor vehicle;
その進行を制御する技能を有しないで自動車を走行させる行為
Open this provisionA person who drives a motor vehicle in a state likely to hinder safe driving under the influence of alcohol, and thereby falls into a state of difficulty in driving safely under the influence of…
アルコールの影響により、その走行中に正常な運転に支障が生じるおそれがある状態で、自動車を運転し、よって、アルコール影響正常運転困難状態に陥り、人を負傷させた者は十二年以下の拘禁刑に処し、人を死亡させた者は十五年以下の拘禁刑に処する。
Open this provision(Evasion of Detection of Influence of Alcohol, etc. in Case of Negligent Driving Causing Death or Injury)
When a person, who drives under the influence of alcohol or drugs in a state likely to hinder the safe driving of a motor vehicle fails to exercise the due care required in driving and thereby causes…
アルコール又は薬物の影響によりその走行中に正常な運転に支障が生じるおそれがある状態で自動車を運転した者が、運転上必要な注意を怠り、よって人を死傷させた場合において、その運転の時のアルコール又は薬物の影響の有無又は程度が発覚することを免れる目的で、更にアルコール又は薬物を摂取すること…
Open this provision(Negligent Driving Causing Death or Injury)
A person who fails to exercise the due care required in driving a motor vehicle and thereby causes the death or injury of another is subject to punishment by imprisonment for not more than 7 years or…
自動車の運転上必要な注意を怠り、よって人を死傷させた者は、七年以下の拘禁刑又は百万円以下の罰金に処する。ただし、その傷害が軽いときは、情状により、その刑を免除することができる。
Open this provisiondriving without a licensemachine translation
「無免許運転」
Driving on a road a motor vehicle (自動車) that only the holder of a driver's license (運転免許), or a person whom Article 107-2 of the Road Traffic Act lets drive on an international driving permit (国際運転免許証) or foreign driver's license (外国運転免許証), may drive, either without the license (including while it is suspended) or without holding that permit or foreign license; the latter includes driving on one by a person whom Article 88, paragraph (1), items (ii) to (iv) of the Road Traffic Act excludes from being granted a license, such as one whose license is suspended or was cancelled or who is banned from driving, and driving on one more than one year after the day of landing (上陸) in Japan, where a return within three months does not count as a landing for a person recorded in the resident register (住民基本台帳) who left with a confirmation of departure (出国の確認), a re-entry permit (再入国の許可), including one treated as granted on leaving, or a refugee travel document (難民旅行証明書); "road" is as Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Road Traffic Act defines it, which also covers other places used for general traffic.
Defined inArticle 1, paragraph (2)· applies throughout the law
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.