A person who falls under any of the following items is punished by imprisonment for not more than five years, a fine of not more than three million yen, or both:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、五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 been delivered a passport or travel document by entering a false statement in the documents concerning an application or request based on this Act, or by other wrongful acts;
この法律に基づく申請又は請求に関する書類に虚偽の記載をすることその他不正の行為によつて当該申請又は請求に係る旅券又は渡航書の交付を受けた者
a person who uses a passport or travel document under another person's name;
他人名義の旅券又は渡航書を行使した者
a person who transfers or lends a passport or travel document under their name to another person for the purpose of using it;
行使の目的をもつて、自己名義の旅券又は渡航書を他人に譲り渡し、又は貸与した者
a person who transfers or lends, acquires or borrows, or carries a passport or travel document under another person's name for the purpose of using it;
行使の目的をもつて、他人名義の旅券又は渡航書を譲り渡し、若しくは貸与し、譲り受け、若しくは借り受け、又は所持した者
a person who transfers or lends, acquires or borrows, or carries a document that has been forged as a passport or travel document for the purpose of using it;
行使の目的をもつて、旅券又は渡航書として偽造された文書を譲り渡し、若しくは貸与し、譲り受け、若しくは借り受け、又は所持した者
a person who has been ordered to return their passport pursuant to the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (1), and has failed to return it within the period provided for in that paragraph; or
a person who uses a passport or travel document that has expired.
効力を失つた旅券又は渡航書を行使した者
A person who commits an offense referred to in item (i), item (iv), or item (v) of the preceding paragraph for profit is punished by imprisonment for not more than seven years, a fine of not more than five million yen, or both.
An attempt to commit the offense referred to in paragraph (1) (excluding the part related to possession referred to in item (iv) and item (v), and excluding item (vi)) and the preceding paragraph (excluding the part related to possession referred to in paragraph (1), item (iv) and item (v)) is punished.
A person who falls under any of the following items is punished by a fine of not more than 300 thousand yen:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、三十万円以下の罰金に処する。
a person who has travelled to a region other than the destination stated in the ordinary passport; or
一般旅券に記載された渡航先以外の地域に渡航した者
in the case the transit point for returning to Japan has been designated, a person who has traveled to a region other than that transit point.
渡航書に帰国の経由地が指定されている場合において、経由地以外の地域に渡航した者
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(Return of Passports)
In the following cases, when the Minister for Foreign Affairs or a consular officer finds it necessary to have a passport returned, they may order the holder of the passport to return the passport by…
外務大臣又は領事官は、次に掲げる場合において、旅券を返納させる必要があると認めるときは、旅券の名義人に対して、期限を付けて、旅券の返納を命ずることができる。
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A person who falls under any of the following items is punished by imprisonment for not more than five years, a fine of not more than three million yen, or both:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、五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。
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a person who has been delivered a passport or travel document by entering a false statement in the documents concerning an application or request based on this Act, or by other wrongful acts;
この法律に基づく申請又は請求に関する書類に虚偽の記載をすることその他不正の行為によつて当該申請又は請求に係る旅券又は渡航書の交付を受けた者
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a person who transfers or lends, acquires or borrows, or carries a passport or travel document under another person's name for the purpose of using it;
行使の目的をもつて、他人名義の旅券又は渡航書を譲り渡し、若しくは貸与し、譲り受け、若しくは借り受け、又は所持した者
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a person who transfers or lends, acquires or borrows, or carries a document that has been forged as a passport or travel document for the purpose of using it;
行使の目的をもつて、旅券又は渡航書として偽造された文書を譲り渡し、若しくは貸与し、譲り受け、若しくは借り受け、又は所持した者
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a person who has been ordered to return their passport pursuant to the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (1), and has failed to return it within the period provided for in that paragraph; or
第十九条第一項の規定により旅券の返納を命ぜられた場合において、同項に規定する期限内にこれを返納しなかつた者
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A person who commits an offense referred to in item (i), item (iv), or item (v) of the preceding paragraph for profit is punished by imprisonment for not more than seven years…
営利の目的をもつて、前項第一号、第四号又は第五号の罪を犯した者は、七年以下の拘禁刑若しくは五百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。
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「一般旅券」
Any passport other than an official passport (公用旅券).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ii)· applies throughout the law
travel document
「渡航書」
A travel document issued in place of a passport under Article 19-3(1) to a Japanese national abroad who wishes to return to Japan and who has no passport and must return urgently with no time to obtain one, cannot be issued a passport, or has returned a passport on an order under Article 19(1).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (iv)· applies throughout the law
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.