Chapter XI Penal Provisions
第十一章 罰則
第百十二条の二
A person who divulges a secret in violation of the provisions of Article 90-6 is punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than five hundred thousand yen.
第九十条の六の規定に違反して秘密を漏らした者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。
第百十三条
If any of the following items applies, the person who has committed the relevant violation is punished by imprisonment for not more than six months or a fine of not more than three hundred thousand yen:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、当該違反行為をした者は、六月以下の拘禁刑又は三十万円以下の罰金に処する。
the person has failed to comply with an order for work, an order of cooperation or an order of custody issued by the prefectural governor (including the mayor of a municipality to whom part of the affairs under the governor's authority has been delegated pursuant to the provisions of Article 71, paragraph (2)) under Article 71, paragraph (1);
the person has failed to comply with an order of custody issued by the head of a designated administrative organ or the head of a designated local administrative organ (including an official to whom authority has been delegated pursuant to the provisions of Article 23-6, paragraph (1), Article 27, paragraph (1) or Article 28-5, paragraph (1)) under Article 78, paragraph (1).
第七十八条第一項の規定による指定行政機関の長又は指定地方行政機関の長（第二十三条の六第一項、第二十七条第一項又は第二十八条の五第一項の規定により権限の委任を受けた職員を含む。）の保管命令に従わなかつたとき。
第百十四条
A driver of a vehicle who has failed to comply with a restriction or ban placed by a prefectural public safety commission under Article 76, paragraph (1) is punished by imprisonment for not more than three months or a fine of not more than two hundred thousand yen.
第七十六条第一項の規定による都道府県公安委員会の禁止又は制限に従わなかつた車両の運転者は、三月以下の拘禁刑又は二十万円以下の罰金に処する。
第百十五条
If any of the following items applies, the person who has committed the relevant violation is punished by a fine of not more than two hundred thousand yen:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、当該違反行為をした者は、二十万円以下の罰金に処する。
the person has refused, interrupted, or avoided receiving a site inspection under Article 71, paragraph (1) (including the case where the person carries out a part of the affairs belonging to the authority pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the same Article; hereinafter the same applies in this Article), Article 78, paragraph (2) (including the case where the person carries out a part of the affairs belonging to the authority pursuant to the provisions of Article 23-6, paragraph (1), Article 27, paragraph (1) or Article 28-5, paragraph (1)), or Article 78, paragraph (3) (including the case where the person carries out a part of the affairs belonging to the authority pursuant to the provisions of Article 23-6, paragraph (1), Article 27, paragraph (1) or Article 28-5, paragraph (1); hereinafter the same applies in this Article);
第七十一条第一項（同条第二項の規定により権限に属する事務の一部を行う場合を含む。以下この条において同じ。）、第七十八条第二項（第二十三条の六第一項、第二十七条第一項又は第二十八条の五第一項の規定により権限に属する事務の一部を行う場合を含む。）又は第七十八条第三項（第二十三条の六第一項、第二十七条第一項又は第二十八条の五第一項の規定により権限に属する事務の一部を行う場合を含む。以下この条において同じ。）の規定による立入検査を拒み、妨げ、又は忌避したとき。
the person has failed to make a report or has made a false report under Article 71, paragraph (1) or Article 78, paragraph (3).
第百十六条
Any person who falls under any of the following items is punished by a fine of not more than one hundred thousand yen or penal detention:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、十万円以下の罰金又は拘留に処する。
any person who has employed signals related to disaster management as provided for by Disaster Management Agency Order under Article 52, paragraph (1) without good reason, or has employed similar signals;
any person who has failed to comply with a ban, restriction, or order to leave enforced by the mayor of a municipality under Article 63, paragraph (1) (including a prefectural governor acting on behalf of the mayor of a municipality pursuant to the provisions of Article 73, paragraph (1)), or by the police or coast guard officers under Article 63, paragraph (2), or by SDF personnel of units under disaster relief operation under Article 63, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 63, paragraph (3).
第百十七条
When a representative of a corporation, or any agent, employee, or other worker of either the corporation or an individual has acted in violation of any provision of Article 113 or 115 with regards to the business of that corporation or individual, not only the offender is punished but also that corporate organization or individual is punished by the fine prescribed in the respective Articles.
第百十八条
A person who divulges a secret in violation of the provisions of Article 33-6 is subject to a civil fine of not more than two hundred thousand yen.
第三十三条の六の規定に違反して秘密を漏らした者は、二十万円以下の過料に処する。
第百十九条
A person who violates the provisions of Article 33-4 is subject to a civil fine of not more than one hundred thousand yen.
第三十三条の四の規定に違反した者は、十万円以下の過料に処する。
disaster managementmachine translation
「防災」
Preventing disasters before they happen, stopping the damage from spreading once one strikes, and recovering from a disaster and rebuilding after it.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ii)· applies throughout the law
designated administrative organs
「指定行政機関」
The national administrative organs the Prime Minister designates from among the Cabinet Office (内閣府), the Imperial Household Agency, the Digital Agency, the Disaster Management Agency, the ministries, commissions and agencies, and the councils, facilities, special organs and other bodies set up under them.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (iii)· applies throughout the law
designated local administrative organs
「指定地方行政機関」
The local branch offices of designated administrative organs, and other local administrative organs of the State, that the Prime Minister designates.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (iv)· applies throughout the law
SDF personnel of units under disaster relief operation
「災害派遣を命ぜられた部隊等の自衛官」
Members of the Self-Defense Forces in units or other formations under Article 8 of the Self-Defense Forces Act that have been ordered to deploy under Article 83, paragraph (2) of that Act.
Short name set inArticle 63, paragraph (3)
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.
penal detention
拘留
A short criminal punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設) for one day to less than thirty days (Penal Code, Article 16, paragraph (1)). As with imprisonment (拘禁刑), the person may be made to do work or given guidance to help them reform (paragraph (2)). It ranks below a fine (罰金) and above a petty fine (科料) (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 16 as a reference.
Prefectural Public Safety Commission
都道府県公安委員会
A commission the Police Act (警察法) places in each prefecture under the jurisdiction of its governor (都道府県知事) (Police Act, Article 38, paragraph (1)). It administers that prefecture's police (都道府県警察) (Article 38, paragraph (3)). It has five members in Tokyo (都), Hokkaido (道), Osaka and Kyoto (府) and in a prefecture that contains a city designated under the Local Autonomy Act (指定市), and three in any other prefecture (Article 38, paragraph (2)). The governor appoints the members, with the consent of the prefectural assembly, from people eligible to stand for that assembly who have not been career public officials doing police or prosecution work in the five years before their appointment; in Hokkaido, Osaka, Kyoto and a prefecture that contains a designated city (指定市), two of the members are people the mayor of that city recommends with the consent of the city assembly (Article 39, paragraph (1)). Under the Secondhand Goods Business Act, a person who intends to run a business buying, selling or exchanging secondhand goods — other than one that only sells them, or only buys back what it sold from the person it sold to — or to run a secondhand goods market must first obtain its permit; that Act calls it the Public Safety Commission (公安委員会) (Secondhand Goods Business Act, Article 2, paragraph (2), items (i) and (ii), and Article 3, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Police Act, Arts. 38, 39 and Secondhand Goods Business Act, Arts. 2, 3 as a reference.