A person who participates in a riot for the purpose of overthrowing the government, usurping the territorial sovereignty of the State, or otherwise subverting constitutional order, thereby committing the crime of insurrection is sentenced according to the following distinctions:
国の統治機構を破壊し、又はその領土において国権を排除して権力を行使し、その他憲法の定める統治の基本秩序を壊乱することを目的として暴動をした者は、内乱の罪とし、次の区別に従って処断する。
the ringleader is punished by death penalty or imprisonment for life;
首謀者は、死刑又は無期拘禁刑に処する。
the person who participates in a plot or directs a mob is punished by imprisonment either for life or for a definite term of 3 years or more; a person who performs other leading functions is punished by imprisonment for 1 year or more and 10 years or less;
謀議に参与し、又は群衆を指揮した者は無期又は三年以上の拘禁刑に処し、その他諸般の職務に従事した者は一年以上十年以下の拘禁刑に処する。
the person who merely follows others or otherwise merely joins in the riot is punished by imprisonment for 3 years or less.
付和随行し、その他単に暴動に参加した者は、三年以下の拘禁刑に処する。
Any attempt to commit the crimes prescribed under the preceding paragraph is punished; provided, however, that the same does not apply to a person provided for in item (iii) of the same paragraph.