It is prohibited for any person to engage in the following acts:

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)).

①It is prohibited for any person to engage in any of the following acts with the aim of misleading others into believing that purchase and sales of securities (limited to purchase and sales of securities that are listed on a financial instruments exchange, over-the-counter traded securities, or tradable securities; hereinafter the same applies in this Article), market derivatives transactions, or over-the-counter derivatives transactions (limited to those involving financial instruments listed on a financial instruments exchange, over-the-counter traded securities, or tradable securities (including financial indexes calculated based on their prices or interest rates) or financial indexes that are listed on a financial instruments exchange; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) are thriving, or otherwise misleading others about the state of these transactions:

②It is prohibited for any person to engage in any of the following acts for the purpose of inducing purchase and sales of securities, market derivatives transactions, or over-the-counter derivatives transactions (hereinafter referred to "purchase and sales of securities, etc." in this Article):

③It is prohibited for any person to effect a series of purchase and sales of securities, etc., to offer to conduct such transactions, to entrust, etc. a person with conducting such transactions, or to become entrusted, etc. with conducting such transactions, for the purpose of pegging, fixing, or stabilizing market prices of listed financial instruments, etc. on a financial instruments exchange market or the market prices of over-the-counter traded securities on an over-the-counter securities market, in a way that constitutes a violation of the provisions of Cabinet Order.

①A person that violates the provisions of the preceding Article is liable to compensate for damages from purchase and sales of securities on a financial instruments exchange market, market derivatives transactions, purchase and sales of securities on an over-the-counter securities market, and purchase and sales of tradable securities (hereinafter referred to "purchase and sales of securities, etc. on a financial instruments exchange market, etc." in this paragraph) in connection with a financial instrument, financial index, or option whose price, agreed figure, or amount receivable the person formed through that violation, which damages are incurred by any person that conducts, or entrusts another person with conducting, such a purchase and sale of securities, etc. on a financial instruments exchange market, etc. at the so-formed price, agreed figure, or amount of compensation.

②A claim for compensation under the preceding paragraph extinguishes by prescription if it is not exercised within one year from when the claimant learns that an act that is in violation of the provisions of the preceding Article has taken place or within three years from when the act takes place.

①The Prime Minister may specify, in Cabinet Office Order, matters that the Prime Minister finds to be necessary and appropriate for ensuring the public interest or the protection of investors, in order to restrict the purchase and sale of the securities that a financial instruments business operator, etc. or authorized firm for on-exchange transactions conducts on its own account, or restrict a financial instruments business operator, etc. or authorized firm for on-exchange transactions from conducting excessive volumes of purchase and sales which are found to be detrimental to the order of the financial instruments exchange market or the over-the-counter securities market.

②The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to market derivatives transactions and over-the-counter derivatives transactions.

③The Prime Minister may specify the matters by Cabinet Office Order, which are found to be necessary and appropriate to secure the public interest or protection of investors, in order to restrict commodity-related market derivatives transactions to be conducted by a commodity trading participant on its own account, or restrict excessive volumes of transactions to be conducted by a commodity trading participant if such transactions are found to disturb the order of a financial instruments exchange market.

①In a margin transaction or other transaction specified by Cabinet Office Order, a financial instruments business operator, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, must receive money that a customer deposits with it in an amount not less than that arrived at by multiplying the market value of the securities for which the transaction is to be conducted by the rate decided by the Prime Minister with a view to ensuring fairness in purchase and sales and other transactions of securities.

②Securities may serve as the money referred to in the preceding paragraph, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order.

①It is prohibited for any person to engage the following acts in a way that constitutes a violation of the provisions of Cabinet Order:

②The provisions of item (ii) of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to transactions specified in Article 2, paragraph (21), items (ii) and (iii). In this case, with regard to a transaction set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (ii), in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph, the term "securities" is deemed to be replaced with "the agreed figure", the term "rises" is deemed to be replaced with "goes up to", the phrase "purchase of" is deemed to be replaced with "transaction, so that the entrusting person will receive money in the event that the actual figure rises above", the term "falls" is deemed to be replaced with "goes down to", and the phrase "sale of" is deemed to be replaced with "transaction, so that the entrusting person will receive money in the event that the actual figure falls below"; and with regard to a transaction set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii), in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph, the term "securities" is deemed to be replaced with "options", the phrase "purchase of" is deemed to be replaced with "transaction wherein the entrusting party will acquire", and the phrase "sale of" is deemed to be replaced with "transaction wherein the entrusting party will grant".