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刑事
Japan's criminal law in English: the Penal Code and the Acts on stalking, domestic violence, hacking, secret filming, dangerous driving and money laundering.
8 laws on this topic
The Penal Code sets out where it applies, what punishments there are, the general rules on when an act is a crime and who answers for it, and the crimes themselves with their penalties.
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301 articles29 defined terms
Amendmentsストーカー行為等の規制等に関する法律
The law against stalking: it makes stalking a crime, lets the police warn, and the Public Safety Commission order to stop, a person who has made someone afraid through pursuit, etc. or location tracking, and sets out the help a person targeted can get.
配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律
Sets up help for people who suffer violence from a spouse or from a partner they live with — counselling and support centres, temporary protection, police help — and lets a district court order the abuser to stay away from them or to leave their shared home.
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44 articles44 defined terms
2 amendments on the way不正アクセス行為の禁止等に関する法律
Makes it a crime to get into a computer over a network by entering someone else's identification code or by getting around its access control, bans obtaining, handing over and storing other people's codes and tricking people into entering theirs, and has the prefectural public safety commission (都道府県公安委員会) help computer operators who have been broken into.
性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律
It punishes filming people's sexual body parts or sexual acts secretly or by other wrongful means, and sharing those images, lets copies of them be confiscated, and lets prosecutors erase such images held on seized items, to stop the harm from happening and spreading.
犯罪による収益の移転防止に関する法律
To stop the proceeds of crime from being moved and hidden, it makes banks and the other businesses and professions it lists check who their customers are, keep records and report suspicious transactions, and it punishes trading in bank passbooks, cards and account details.
What someone who finds lost property must do with it, how the police and the occupants of facilities where things are found return it to the person who lost it, and who pays the costs, earns a reward and comes to own it.
自動車の運転により人を死傷させる行為等の処罰に関する法律
It sets the punishments for injuring or killing someone by driving a motor vehicle dangerously, under the influence of alcohol, drugs or illness, or carelessly, and heavier ones where the driver had no licence.