Changes on (Act No. 60 of 2024)
A person falling under any of the following items is punished with imprisonment for not more than 3 years or a fine not exceeding 3 million yen, or is to be subject to the cumulative imposition of imprisonment and a fine:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、三年以下の拘禁刑若しくは三百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。
a person who has a foreign national engage in illegal work in relation to their business activities; or
a person who places a foreign national under their control for the purpose of having the foreign national engage in illegal work;
a person who arranges on a regular basis for a foreign national to engage in illegal work or who makes arrangements for the act set forth in the preceding item.
A person who performs an act falling under any of the items of the preceding paragraph is not to be exempt from punishment pursuant to the provisions of the same Article on the grounds of not knowing that the act falls under any of the following items; provided however, that this does not apply if there is no negligence:
the activities of the foreign national relate to the management of a business that involves income or activities for which they receive remuneration, which are not included among those activities corresponding to the status of residence of the foreign national;
当該外国人の活動が当該外国人の在留資格に応じた活動に属しない収入を伴う事業を運営する活動又は報酬を受ける活動であること。
the foreign national is not granted the permission set forth in Article 19, paragraph (2) in engaging in the activities of the foreign national; or
the foreign national is a person set forth in Article 70, paragraph (1), items (i), (ii), (iii) through (iii)-3, item (v), items (vii) through (vii)-3 or items (viii)-2 through (viii)-4.
当該外国人が第七十条第一項第一号、第二号、第三号から第三号の三まで、第五号、第七号から第七号の三まで又は第八号の二から第八号の四までに掲げる者であること。
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foreign national
「外国人」
Anyone who does not hold Japanese nationality.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law
illegal workmachine translation
「不法就労活動」
Paid work that a foreign national is not allowed to do: activities outside what their status of residence (在留資格) permits, or work by a person staying or having entered unlawfully (such as someone who overstayed), unless done with permission under Article 44-5.
Defined inArticle 24, paragraph (1), item (iii-4), (a)
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.