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Article 191Excavation of Graves and Damaging Corpses

第百九十一条(墳墓発掘死体損壊等)

A person who commits the crime prescribed under Article 189 and damages, abandons or unlawfully possesses a corpse, the ashes or hairs of a dead person, or an object placed in a coffin is punished by imprisonment for 3 months or more and 5 years or less.

第百八十九条の罪を犯して、死体、遺骨、遺髪又は棺に納めてある物を損壊し、遺棄し、又は領得した者は、三月以上五年以下の拘禁刑に処する。

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