①A person who lost property (excluding a thing of another person possessed by mistake) and receives its return must pay the finder a reward in an amount equivalent to 5 percent or more and 20 percent or less of the value of that property (for property sold under Article 9, paragraph (1) or (2) or Article 20, paragraph (1) or (2), the amount of the proceeds of that sale).

②If there is a facility occupant that received delivery of the property, the person who lost the property referred to in the preceding paragraph must, notwithstanding that paragraph, pay each of the finder and that facility occupant a reward in an amount equal to one half of the amount prescribed in that paragraph.

③The national government, local governments, incorporated administrative agencies (meaning incorporated administrative agencies prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administrative Agencies (Act No. 103 of 1999)), local incorporated administrative agencies (meaning local incorporated administrative agencies prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Local Independent Administrative Agency Act (Act No. 118 of 2003)) and other public juridical persons may not claim the rewards referred to in the preceding two paragraphs.