Article 158Prohibition on the Spreading of Rumors, the Use of Fraudulent Means, and Assault and Intimidation
第百五十八条（風説の流布、偽計、暴行又は脅迫の禁止）
It is prohibited for any person to spread rumors, to use fraudulent means, or to commit assault or use intimidation for the purpose of carrying out a public offering, secondary distribution, purchase and sale or other transaction of securities, or a derivatives transaction, etc. or for the purpose of causing a fluctuation in the market price of a security, etc. (meaning a security, an option, or a financial instrument (other than a security) or financial index that is connected with a derivatives transaction; the same applies in Article 168, paragraph (1), Article 173, paragraph (1) and Article 197, paragraph (2), item (i)).
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(Prohibition of Issuing Public Notice of False Quotations)
It is prohibited for any person to issue public notice of a false quotation on the market price of securities, etc., to prepare documents that state a false quotation on the market price of…
何人も、有価証券等の相場を偽つて公示し、又は公示し若しくは頒布する目的をもつて有価証券等の相場を偽つて記載した文書を作成し、若しくは頒布してはならない。
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If a person, in violation of the provisions of Article 158, spreads unfounded rumors or uses fraudulent means, or influences the prices of securities, etc. by spreading those unfounded rumors or…
第百五十八条の規定に違反して、風説を流布し、又は偽計を用い、当該風説の流布又は偽計（以下この条において「違反行為」という。）により有価証券等の価格に影響を与えた者（以下この条において「違反者」という。）があるときは、内閣総理大臣は、次節に定める手続に従い、当該違反者に対し、次の各号に掲げる場合の区分に応じ…
Open this provisionwhen the person, by committing the crime referred to in item (v) of the preceding paragraph and for the purpose of gaining an economic benefit, causes the market price of securities…
財産上の利益を得る目的で、前項第五号の罪を犯して有価証券等の相場を変動させ、又はくぎ付けし、固定し、若しくは安定させ、当該変動させ、又はくぎ付けし、固定し、若しくは安定させた相場により当該有価証券等に係る有価証券の売買その他の取引又はデリバティブ取引等を行つたとき（当該罪が商品関連市場デリバティブ取引のみに係るもので…
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「有価証券」
Securities as this Act defines them: the instruments listed in Article 2, paragraph (1), among them national government and local government bonds, corporate bonds, share certificates and share option certificates, preferred equity investment certificates, beneficiary certificates of investment trusts and other trusts, investment securities, certain promissory notes, mortgage securities, option certificates and depositary receipts, foreign instruments of the same nature, and other instruments a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
options
「オプション」
A right under a transaction listed in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) made on a financial instruments market (金融商品市場) under the standards and methods of its operator, a right under a similar transaction on a foreign financial instruments market (外国金融商品市場) (other than one involving commodities or indices based on their prices), or a right under a transaction listed in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iii) or (iv) made off those markets.
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xix)
public offering of securities
「有価証券の募集」
A public offering of securities: a solicitation of applications to acquire newly issued securities (取得勧誘) that, for paragraph (1) securities (第一項有価証券), is made to many persons as a Cabinet Order (政令) sets or falls under none of the exemptions for solicitations made only to qualified institutional investors, only to professional investors, or to a small number of persons, and that, for paragraph (2) securities (第二項有価証券), will lead a fairly large number of persons, as a Cabinet Order sets, to hold the securities.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (3)
derivatives transactions
「デリバティブ取引」
A market derivatives transaction (市場デリバティブ取引), an over-the-counter derivatives transaction (店頭デリバティブ取引) or a foreign market derivatives transaction (外国市場デリバティブ取引).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (20)· applies throughout the law
financial instruments
「金融商品」
In this Act, securities (有価証券); deposit claims and other rights, or certificates representing them, that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies; currencies; cryptoassets, etc. (暗号等資産) as item (iii)-2 of Article 2, paragraph (24) defines them; commodities a Cabinet Order specifies; other assets a Cabinet Order specifies of which many of the same kind exist and whose prices fluctuate widely; and standardized instruments (標準物) that a financial instruments exchange sets to facilitate market derivatives transactions.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (24)· applies throughout the law
financial index
「金融指標」
Prices of financial instruments (金融商品), and interest rates, etc. on financial instruments other than currencies and commodities; figures from weather observations published by the Japan Meteorological Agency (気象庁) or others; indicators that cannot practically be influenced and that greatly affect businesses, or socio-economic statistics, that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, with exclusions; and figures calculated from any of these.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (25)· applies throughout the law
derivatives transactions, etc.machine translation
「デリバティブ取引等」
In Article 33, the acts its paragraph (3) lists: market derivatives transactions (市場デリバティブ取引) and the intermediation, brokerage or agency in them (or in entrusting them) listed in Article 2, paragraph (8), items (ii) and (iii); over-the-counter derivatives transactions, etc. (店頭デリバティブ取引等); and foreign market derivatives transactions (外国市場デリバティブ取引) together with the same acts in relation to them.
Short name set inArticle 33, paragraph (3)
securities, etc.
「有価証券等」
In Article 158, Article 168, paragraph (1), Article 173, paragraph (1) and Article 197, paragraph (2), item (i), securities, options, and financial instruments (other than securities) or financial indicators that derivatives transactions relate to.
Defined inArticle 158, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 168, paragraph (1); Article 173, paragraph (1); and Article 197, paragraph (2), item (i)