If any of the following items applies, the person who has committed the violation is subject to punishment by imprisonment for not longer than one year, a fine of not more than one million yen, or both:
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、一年以下の拘禁刑若しくは百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。
the person conducts business prescribed in Article 30, paragraph (1) without obtaining authorization under the provisions of that paragraph (excluding the case where the person conducts it pursuant to the provisions of the proviso to that paragraph);
the person violates the conditions attached pursuant to the provisions of Article 30-2, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 87-2, paragraph (3); Article 87-3, paragraph (5); Article 106-3, paragraph (6); Article 106-10, paragraph (5); Article 106-17, paragraph (5); Article 106-24, paragraph (2); Article 155, paragraph (2); Article 156-5-5, paragraph (6); or Article 156-20-16, paragraph (4)); Article 59, paragraph (2); Article 60, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 60-14, paragraph (2)); Article 85, paragraph (2); or Article 156-6, paragraph (4) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 156-19, paragraph (4));
第三十条の二第一項（第八十七条の二第三項、第八十七条の三第五項、第百六条の三第六項、第百六条の十第五項、第百六条の十七第五項、第百六条の二十四第二項、第百五十五条第二項、第百五十六条の五の五第六項及び第百五十六条の二十の十六第四項において準用する場合を含む。）、第五十九条第二項、第六十条第二項（第六十条の十四第二項において準用する場合を含む。）、第八十五条第二項又は第百五十六条の六第四項（第百五十六条の十九第四項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定により付した条件に違反したとき。
the person violates the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (6);
第三十一条第六項の規定に違反したとき。
the person violates the provisions of Article 31-2, paragraph (5); Article 33, paragraph (1); Article 33-2; Articles 41-3 through 41-5; Article 42-5; Article 42-6; or Article 66-13;
第三十一条の二第五項、第三十三条第一項、第三十三条の二、第四十一条の三から第四十一条の五まで、第四十二条の五、第四十二条の六又は第六十六条の十三の規定に違反したとき。
the person conducts financial instruments business or performs services prescribed in Article 35, paragraph (1) and services other than those set forth in the items of Article 35, paragraph (2), without obtaining the approval under the provisions of Article 35, paragraph (4);
the person violates a disposition for the suspension of business under Article 52, paragraph (1) (limited to the part involving the authorization referred to in Article 30, paragraph (1)) or Article 52-2, paragraph (1);
第五十二条第一項（第三十条第一項の認可に係るものに限る。）又は第五十二条の二第一項の規定による業務の停止の処分に違反したとき。
the person violates the provisions of Article 64, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 66-25) in allowing a person to perform the duties of a sales representative;
the person violates the provisions of Article 67-7, Article 97, or Article 102-21;
the person entrusts the self-regulatory services prescribed in Article 84, paragraph (2) to a self-regulatory organization prescribed in that paragraph without obtaining the authorization from the Prime Minster, in violation of Article 85, paragraph (1);
the person violates an order under the provisions of Article 106-7, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (4) of that Article, or under the provisions of Article 106-21, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (4) of that Article;
第百六条の七第四項において準用する同条第一項又は第百六条の二十一第四項において準用する同条第一項の規定による命令に違反したとき。
the person violates an order under the provisions of Article 106-28, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 109);
第百六条の二十八第一項（第百九条において準用する場合を含む。）の規定による命令に違反したとき。
the person conducts business other than that prescribed in Article 156-24, paragraph (1) and the items of Article 156-27, paragraph (1) without obtaining the approval under the provisions of Article 156-27, paragraph (3); and
第百五十六条の二十七第三項の規定による承認を受けないで第百五十六条の二十四第一項及び第百五十六条の二十七第一項各号に規定する業務以外の業務を行つたとき。
the person performs an act that is allowed only with the authorization of the Prime Minister pursuant to Article 156-28, paragraph (1), without obtaining the authorization under the provisions of that paragraph.
第百五十六条の二十八第一項の規定による認可を受けないで、同項の規定により内閣総理大臣の認可を受けてできることとされる行為をしたとき。
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(Restriction on Services)
A self-regulatory organization must not conduct services for profit.
自主規制法人は、営利の目的をもつて業務を行つてはならない。
Open this provision(Authorization)
The provisions of Article 30-2 apply mutatis mutandis to the authorization referred to in paragraph (1) or in the proviso to paragraph (3).
第三十条の二の規定は、第一項及び第三項ただし書の認可について準用する。
Open this provision(Authorization as a Major Shareholder)
The provisions of Article 30-2 apply mutatis mutandis to the authorization referred to in paragraph (1).
第三十条の二の規定は、第一項の認可について準用する。
Open this provision(Supervisory Dispositions for Major Shareholders)
If the major shareholder of a financial instruments exchange holding company violates a law or regulation, or if it is found that the act of a major shareholder is likely to impair the sound and…
内閣総理大臣は、金融商品取引所持株会社の主要株主が法令に違反したとき、又は主要株主の行為が当該金融商品取引所持株会社の子会社である株式会社金融商品取引所の業務の健全かつ適切な運営を損なうおそれがあると認めるときは、当該主要株主に対し第百六条の十七第一項の認可を取り消し…
Open this provision(Supervisory Dispositions for Major Shareholders)
The provisions of paragraph (1) and the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to an authorized financial instruments firms association, financial instruments exchange…
第一項及び前項の規定は、金融商品取引所持株会社の保有基準割合以上の数の対象議決権を保有する認可金融商品取引業協会、金融商品取引所及び商品取引所について準用する。
Open this provision(Scope of Subsidiary Companies)
The provisions of Article 30-2 apply mutatis mutandis to the authorization referred to in the proviso to the preceding paragraph.
第三十条の二の規定は、前項ただし書の認可について準用する。
Open this provision(Supervisory Dispositions)
If a financial instruments exchange holding company violates a law or regulation, or if the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary, in light of the state of the business of a financial instruments…
内閣総理大臣は、金融商品取引所持株会社が法令に違反したとき、又は金融商品取引所持株会社の業務の状況に照らして、その子会社である株式会社金融商品取引所の業務の公共性に対する信頼及び健全かつ適切な運営を確保するために必要があると認めるときは…
Open this provision(Authorization)
The provisions of Article 30-2 apply mutatis mutandis to the authorization referred to in paragraph (1).
第三十条の二の規定は、第一項の認可について準用する。
Open this provision(Supervisory Dispositions)
If the major shareholder of an incorporated financial instruments exchange violates a law or regulation or if it is found that the conduct of a major shareholder is likely to impair the sound and…
内閣総理大臣は、株式会社金融商品取引所の主要株主が法令に違反したとき、又は主要株主の行為が株式会社金融商品取引所の業務の健全かつ適切な運営を損なうおそれがあると認めるときは、当該主要株主に対し第百六条の三第一項の認可を取り消し、その他監督上必要な措置をとることを命ずることができる。
Open this provision(Supervisory Dispositions)
The provisions of paragraph (1) and the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to an authorized financial instruments firms association, financial instruments exchange…
第一項及び前項の規定は、株式会社金融商品取引所の保有基準割合以上の数の対象議決権を保有する認可金融商品取引業協会、金融商品取引所、金融商品取引所持株会社、商品取引所及び商品取引所持株会社について準用する。
Open this provision(Application, Mutatis Mutandis of Provisions on Supervisory Dispositions)
The provisions of Article 106-23, paragraph (3) and Article 106-28, paragraphs (1) and (5) apply mutatis mutandis to an authorized financial instruments firms association or financial instruments…
第百六条の二十三第三項並びに第百六条の二十八第一項及び第五項の規定は株式会社金融商品取引所を子会社とする認可金融商品取引業協会及び金融商品取引所並びに金融商品取引所持株会社を子会社とする認可金融商品取引業協会及び金融商品取引所について、第百六条の二十三第三項…
Open this provision(Authorization)
The provisions of Article 30-2 apply mutatis mutandis to the authorization referred to the preceding paragraph.
第三十条の二の規定は、前項の認可について準用する。
Open this provisionFinancial Instruments Obligation Assumption Services, etc. by a Financial Instruments Exchange
The provisions of Article 156-6, paragraphs (4) and (5) apply mutatis mutandis to the approval referred to in paragraph (1) or (2).
第百五十六条の六第四項及び第五項の規定は、第一項又は第二項の承認について準用する。
Open this provision(Authorization When Interoperating with Other Financial Instruments Clearing Organizations)
The provisions of Article 30-2 apply mutatis mutandis to the authorization referred to in paragraph (1).
第三十条の二の規定は、第一項の認可について準用する。
Open this provision(Licenses and License Applications)
A person seeking use the clearing framework of a financial instruments exchange market operated by a financial instruments exchange or the clearing framework of an over-the-counter securities market…
金融商品取引所の会員等又は認可金融商品取引業協会の協会員に対し、金融商品取引業者が顧客に信用を供与して行う有価証券の売買その他の取引（以下「信用取引」という。）その他政令で定める取引の決済に必要な金銭又は有価証券を…
Open this provision(Restriction on Concurrent Business)
A securities finance company may conduct the following business in addition to the business prescribed in Article 156-24, paragraph (1), to the extent that such concurrent business does not obstruct…
証券金融会社は、第百五十六条の二十四第一項に規定する業務の遂行を妨げない限度において、当該業務のほか、次に掲げる業務を行うことができる。
Open this provision(Restriction on Concurrent Business)
A securities finance company may conduct business for which it has obtained the approval of the Prime Minister, in addition to business prescribed in paragraph (1) of this Article and Article 156-24…
証券金融会社は、第一項及び第百五十六条の二十四第一項の規定により行う業務のほか、内閣総理大臣の承認を受けた業務を行うことができる。
Open this provision(Authorization of Changes to a Business Outline)
A securities finance company must obtain the authorization of the Prime Minister if it seeks to change the business outline or business methods for business prescribed in Article 156-24…
証券金融会社は、第百五十六条の二十四第一項に規定する業務の内容若しくは方法を変更しようとするとき、又は資本金の額を減少しようとするときは、内閣総理大臣の認可を受けなければならない。
Open this provision(Authorization as a Major Shareholder)
The provisions of Article 30-2 apply mutatis mutandis to the authorization referred to in paragraph (1) and in the proviso to paragraph (4).
第三十条の二の規定は、第一項及び第四項ただし書の認可について準用する。
Open this provision(Restriction on Business)
The Prime Minister may attach conditions to the approval referred to in the proviso to paragraph (2).
内閣総理大臣は、第二項ただし書の承認に条件を付することができる。
Open this provision(Conditions on Authorization)
The Prime Minister may attach conditions to the authorization referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article.
内閣総理大臣は、前条第一項の認可に条件を付することができる。
Open this provision(Authorization)
A financial instruments business operator must obtain the authorization of the Prime Minister when it intends to conduct, as a business, the acts set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (x)…
金融商品取引業者は、第二条第八項第十号に掲げる行為を業として行おうとするときは、内閣総理大臣の認可を受けなければならない。ただし、当該行為を次に掲げる有価証券のみについて行う場合であつて、当該行為に係る有価証券の売買高の合計額が…
Open this provision(Security Deposits for Operations)
A financial instruments business operator must not begin financial instruments business until it deposits the business security deposit referred to in paragraph (1)…
金融商品取引業者は、第一項の営業保証金につき供託（第三項の契約の締結を含む。）を行い、その旨を内閣総理大臣に届け出た後でなければ、金融商品取引業を開始してはならない。
Open this provision(Registration of a Change)
Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (3), if a financial instruments business operator that has obtained the authorization referred to in Article 30…
第三十条第一項の認可を受けた金融商品取引業者は、第三項の規定にかかわらず、当該認可を受けた業務に係る損失の危険の管理方法、売買価格の決定方法、受渡しその他の決済の方法その他内閣府令で定める業務の内容及び方法を変更しようとする場合においては、内閣総理大臣の認可を受けなければならない。
Open this provision(Registration of Financial Institutions)
A financial institution must be registered by the Prime Minister if it seeks to perform any of the following acts on a regular basis, or if it seeks to provide investment advisory and agency business…
金融機関は、次に掲げる行為のいずれかを業として行おうとするとき、又は投資助言・代理業若しくは有価証券等管理業務を行おうとするときは、内閣総理大臣の登録を受けなければならない。
Open this provision(Prohibition on Engagement in Securities Services by Financial Institutions)
It is prohibited for a bank or cooperative financial institution, or for any other financial institution specified by Cabinet Order…
銀行、協同組織金融機関その他政令で定める金融機関（以下この条及び次条において「金融機関」という。）は、有価証券関連業又は投資運用業を行つてはならない。ただし、有価証券関連業については、金融機関が他の法律の定めるところにより投資の目的をもつて…
Open this provision(Scope of Services for Persons Engaged in Type-I Financial Instruments Business or Investment Management Business)
A financial instruments business operator (limited to one engaged in type-I financial instruments business or investment management business; hereinafter the same applies in this Article)…
金融商品取引業者（第一種金融商品取引業又は投資運用業を行う者に限る。以下この条において同じ。）は、金融商品取引業のほか、次に掲げる行為を業として行うことその他の金融商品取引業に付随する業務を行うことができる。
Open this provision(Scope of Services for Persons Engaged in Type-I Financial Instruments Business or Investment Management Business)
A financial instruments business operator, beyond the financial instruments business and other services provided pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph…
金融商品取引業者は、金融商品取引業及び前項の規定により行う業務のほか、次に掲げる業務を行うことができる。
Open this provision(Scope of Services for Persons Engaged in Type-I Financial Instruments Business or Investment Management Business)
A financial instruments business operator, beyond the financial instruments business and the services provided pursuant to paragraph (1) and paragraph (2)…
金融商品取引業者は、金融商品取引業並びに第一項及び第二項の規定により行う業務のほか、内閣総理大臣の承認を受けた業務を行うことができる。
Open this provision(Prohibition on the Purchase and Sale of Securities)
A financial instruments business operator, etc. must not perform any of the acts set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), items (i) through (iv), in connection with the investment advisory business it…
金融商品取引業者等は、その行う投資助言業務に関して、顧客を相手方とし、又は顧客のために第二条第八項第一号から第四号までに掲げる行為をしてはならない。ただし、第一種金融商品取引業として行う場合その他政令で定める場合は、この限りでない。
Open this provision(Prohibition on Receiving Deposits of Money or Securities)
A financial instruments business operator, etc. must not, for any reason, receive a deposit of money or Securities from a customer, or have a person specified by Cabinet Order as being closely…
金融商品取引業者等は、有価証券等管理業務として行う場合その他政令で定める場合を除くほか、その行う投資助言業務に関して、いかなる名目によるかを問わず、顧客から金銭若しくは有価証券の預託を受け、又は当該金融商品取引業者等と密接な関係を有する者として政令で定める者に顧客の金銭若しくは有価証券を預託させてはならない。
Open this provision(Prohibition on the Lending of Money or Securities)
A financial instruments business operator, etc. must not lend money or securities to a customer or perform intermediation, brokerage, or agency for a third party's lending of money or securities to a…
金融商品取引業者等は、その行う投資助言業務に関して、顧客に対し金銭若しくは有価証券を貸し付け、又は顧客への第三者による金銭若しくは有価証券の貸付けにつき媒介、取次ぎ若しくは代理をしてはならない。
Open this provision(Prohibition on Receiving Deposits of Money or Securities)
A financial instruments business operator, etc. must not, for any reason, receive a deposit of money or securities from a customer, or have a person specified by Cabinet Order as being closely…
金融商品取引業者等は、有価証券等管理業務として行う場合その他政令で定める場合を除くほか、その行う投資運用業（第二条第八項第十二号に掲げる行為を行う業務に限る。以下この条及び次条において同じ。）に関して、いかなる名目によるかを問わず、顧客から金銭若しくは有価証券の預託を受け…
Open this provision(Prohibition on the Lending of Money or Securities)
A financial instruments business operator, etc. must not lend money or securities to a customer or perform intermediation, brokerage, or agency for a third party's lending of money or securities to a…
金融商品取引業者等は、その行う投資運用業に関して、顧客に対し金銭若しくは有価証券を貸し付け、又は顧客への第三者による金銭若しくは有価証券の貸付けにつき媒介、取次ぎ若しくは代理をしてはならない。
Open this provision(Supervisory Measures for Registered Financial Institutions)
If a registered financial institution falls under any of the following items, the Prime Minister may rescind its registration under Article 33-2, or order the suspension of all or part of business…
内閣総理大臣は、登録金融機関が次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合においては、当該登録金融機関の第三十三条の二の登録を取り消し、又は六月以内の期間を定めて業務の全部若しくは一部の停止を命ずることができる。
Open this provision(Supervisory Measures for Financial Instruments Business Operators)
If a financial instruments business operator falls under any of the following items, the Prime Minister may rescind its Article 29 registration, rescind its Article 30, paragraph (1) authorization…
内閣総理大臣は、金融商品取引業者が次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合においては、当該金融商品取引業者の第二十九条の登録を取り消し、第三十条第一項の認可を取り消し、又は六月以内の期間を定めて業務の全部若しくは一部の停止を命ずることができる。
Open this provision(Permission for Some Underwriting Activities)
The Prime Minister may attach conditions to the permission referred to in the preceding paragraph.
内閣総理大臣は、前項の許可に条件を付することができる。
Open this provisionThe provisions of Article 60, paragraphs (2) through (4), Article 60-2 (excluding paragraph (1), items (iv), (vii) and (x)) and Article 60-3 (excluding paragraph (1), item (i), (d) and item (iii))…
第六十条第二項から第四項まで、第六十条の二（第一項第四号、第七号及び第十号を除く。）及び第六十条の三（第一項第一号ニ及び第三号を除く。）の規定は前項の許可について、第四十条の七第二項及び第六十条の四から前条までの規定は前項の許可を受けた者（以下「電子店頭デリバティブ取引等許可業者」という。）の電子店頭デリバティブ取引…
Open this provision(Permission for On-Exchange Transaction Services)
The Prime Minister may attach conditions to the permission referred to in the preceding paragraph.
内閣総理大臣は、前項の許可に条件を付することができる。
Open this provision(Registration of Sales Representatives)
A financial instruments business operator, etc. must not allow a person other than one for which a registration has been made pursuant to the preceding paragraph to perform the duties of a sales…
金融商品取引業者等は、前項の規定により当該金融商品取引業者等が登録を受けた者以外の者に外務員の職務（同項各号に掲げる行為をいう。以下同じ。）を行わせてはならない。
Open this provision(Prohibition on Depositing Money)
A financial instruments intermediary service provider must not, for any reason, receive a deposit of money or securities from a customer, or have a person specified by Cabinet Order as being closely…
金融商品仲介業者は、いかなる名目によるかを問わず、その行う金融商品仲介業に関して、顧客から金銭若しくは有価証券の預託を受け、又は当該金融商品仲介業者と密接な関係を有する者として政令で定める者に顧客の金銭若しくは有価証券を預託させてはならない。
Open this provision(Mutatis Mutandis Application)
The provisions of Articles 64 through 64-9 (excluding Article 64-7, paragraph (2)) apply mutatis mutandis to a financial instruments intermediary service provider.
第六十四条から第六十四条の九まで（第六十四条の七第二項を除く。）の規定は、金融商品仲介業者について準用する。この場合において、必要な技術的読替えは、政令で定める。
Open this provision(Prohibition of Profit-Seeking)
An authorized association must not engage in any business for profit.
認可協会は、営利の目的をもつて業務を行つてはならない。
Open this provision(Self-Regulatory Services)
The term "self-regulatory services" as used in the preceding paragraph means the following services conducted in respect of a financial instruments exchange:
前項の「自主規制業務」とは、金融商品取引所について行う次に掲げる業務をいう。
Open this provision(Entrustment of Self-Regulatory Services)
With the authorization of the Prime Minister, a financial instruments exchange may entrust all or part of the self-regulatory services of the financial instruments exchange to a self-regulatory…
金融商品取引所は、内閣総理大臣の認可を受けて、自主規制法人（自主規制業務（前条第二項に規定する自主規制業務をいう。以下この章において同じ。）を行うことを目的として、次節第一款の二の規定に基づいて設立された法人をいう。以下この章において同じ。）に対し…
Open this provision(Entrustment of Self-Regulatory Services)
The Prime Minister may attach conditions to the authorization under the preceding paragraph.
内閣総理大臣は、前項の認可に条件を付することができる。
Open this provision(Scope of Business)
The provisions of Article 30-2 apply mutatis mutandis to the authorization referred to in the proviso to paragraph (1).
第三十条の二の規定は、第一項ただし書の認可について準用する。
Open this provision(Scope of Subsidiary Companies)
The provisions of Article 30-2 apply mutatis mutandis to the authorization referred to in the proviso to paragraph (1).
第三十条の二の規定は、第一項ただし書の認可について準用する。
Open this provision(Restriction on Business)
A financial instruments membership corporation must not conduct business for profit.
金融商品会員制法人は、営利の目的をもつて業務を行つてはならない。
Open this provisionfinancial instruments business
「金融商品取引業」
Carrying on as a business any of the acts listed in Article 2, paragraph (8) — such as trading and brokering securities and derivatives, underwriting, handling public offerings and private placements, giving investment advice, managing investments and holding customers' money or securities — other than acts a Cabinet Order (政令) excludes as posing no risk to investor protection, and certain of those acts when banks, cooperative financial institutions (協同組織金融機関) and other financial institutions a Cabinet Order specifies carry them out.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (8)· applies throughout the law
sales representative
「外務員」
An officer or employee of a financial instruments business operator, etc. who, whatever their title, carries out for it the acts listed in Article 64, paragraph (1), such as soliciting purchases and sales of securities or derivatives transactions; each must be registered in the register of sales representatives.
Short name set inArticle 64, paragraph (1)
self-regulatory services
「自主規制業務」
The business carried on for a financial instruments exchange of listing and delisting financial instruments, financial indices and options (other than business a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) excludes), examining whether members, etc. (会員等) comply with laws and regulations, dispositions under them, the articles of incorporation and other rules, and the principle of good faith in trading, and other business a Cabinet Office Order specifies as needed to keep trading on its market fair.
Defined inArticle 84, paragraph (2)
self-regulatory organizationmachine translation
「自主規制法人」
In Chapter V, a corporation incorporated under Subsection 1-2 of Section 2 of that Chapter to carry on self-regulatory business (自主規制業務), to which a financial instruments exchange may, with the Prime Minister's authorization, entrust that business.
Defined inArticle 85, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
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.
Prime Minister
内閣総理大臣
The head of the Cabinet. Designated by the Diet from among its own members, and appointed by the Emperor on that designation (Articles 67 and 6). The Prime Minister appoints and may dismiss the other Ministers of State at will, and a majority of them must be members of the Diet (Article 68). No Minister of State can be subjected to legal action while in office without the Prime Minister's consent (Article 75).
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 6, 67, 68, 75 and Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan as a reference.