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Article 108Arson of Inhabited Buildings

第百八条(現住建造物等放火)

A person who sets fire to and burns a building, train, tram, vessel or mine which is being used as a dwelling or for which a person is actually present is punished by the death penalty or imprisonment for life or for a definite term of 5 years or more.

放火して、現に人が住居に使用し又は現に人がいる建造物、汽車、電車、艦船又は鉱坑を焼損した者は、死刑又は無期若しくは五年以上の拘禁刑に処する。

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