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ストーカー行為等の規制等に関する法律
Stalking is a crime punishable by imprisonment (拘禁刑) of up to 1 year or a fine of up to 1 million yen. Stalking in breac…
Registrars and other officials in registration work, present or past, who leak secrets about how registration identifica…
The penalties are in Chapter 6 (Articles 46 to 52): breaking an order for measures is punishable by imprisonment (拘禁刑) o…
不正アクセス行為の禁止等に関する法律
Unauthorized access is punishable by imprisonment (拘禁刑) of up to three years or a fine of up to 1 million yen.
In a lawsuit over unfair competition the court may, on a party's request, order documents or electronic records needed t…
Long-term care support specialists (介護支援専門員, care managers): people with the practical experience a Ministry of Health,…
Those who found, own and run companies: incorporators (発起人), shareholders, members of membership companies, and the dire…
住宅宿泊事業法
Registration as a manager or an intermediary must be refused if the application or its attachments are false, or leave o…
住民基本台帳法
Getting a copy of a resident record, of a deleted resident record (除票) or of a family register annex by deception is pun…
個人情報の保護に関する法律
Under Chapter 8, disobeying an order of the Commission is punishable by imprisonment (拘禁刑) of up to one year or a fine o…
健康保険法
An employer who, without good reason, fails to file or falsely files the reports on coverage and pay, fails to pass the…
児童手当法
Receiving the allowance by deception or other wrongful means is punishable by imprisonment (拘禁刑) of up to 3 years or a f…
最低賃金法
A worker may report a breach of this Act, or of an order made under it, at their workplace to the Director of the Prefec…
出入国管理及び難民認定法
Japanese nationals, other than crew members, when they leave and return: they must hold a valid passport (on return, pro…
出入国管理及び難民認定法及び日本国との平和条約に基づき日本の国籍を離脱した者等の出入国管理に関する特例法の一部を改正する等の法律の施行に伴う法務省関係省令の整備及び経過措置に関する省令
This Ministry of Justice Order sets no penalties. Act No. 79 of 2009 punishes failing to make the transitional residence…
出入国管理及び難民認定法及び日本国との平和条約に基づき日本の国籍を離脱した者等の出入国管理に関する特例法の一部を改正する等の法律の施行に伴う関係政令の整備及び経過措置に関する政令
This Cabinet Order sets no penalties. Act No. 79 of 2009 punishes failing to notify the place of residence under its tra…
Its duties are enforced through the penalties in Chapter 9 of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act. Faili…
The principal punishments are, from heaviest: death (死刑), imprisonment (拘禁刑), a fine (罰金) of 10,000 yen or more (less wh…
労働保険の保険料の徴収等に関する法律
An employer that fails to fix and cancel stamps for an insured day worker, to keep or fill in the stamp-premium book or…
労働基準法
Breaching many of its provisions is a crime. Penalties range from a fine of up to 300,000 yen to imprisonment for one to…
Breaching the hazard duties of Articles 20 to 25, using a specified machine without an inspection certificate, transferr…
労働審判法
The tribunal's deliberations are secret. A current or former labor tribunal member who, without justifiable grounds, rev…
労働組合法
Refusing without good reason to appear, testify, produce or take the oath is punishable by a civil fine (過料) of up to 30…
労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の保護等に関する法律
Where a staffing provider breaks this Act or another labour law in its dispatch business, the Minister may order it to i…
Penalties are in Chapter VII (Articles 51 to 54). Where an employer or a business receiving dispatched workers disobeys…
Practising medicine without being a doctor, or obtaining a licence on false or wrongful facts, is punishable by imprison…
The governor — or, in a city with a public health center or a special ward, its mayor — may, where needed, require the e…
An employer must notify the Minister when an employee joins or leaves the insurance — and when an employed person aged 7…
The Public Safety Commission must refuse a permit to, among others: a bankrupt not yet discharged; anyone until five yea…
No one may, in the course of business, require a person applying for or entering into a sale, lease, employment or other…
国民年金法
From anyone who has obtained a benefit — the lump-sum withdrawal payment included — by deception or other wrongful means…
The crimes this Act itself sets are: inciting taxpayers not to file, to file falsely or not to pay, or using violence or…
Making a false notification to acquire citizenship as an acknowledged child is a crime, punishable by imprisonment (拘禁刑)…
地方税法
Where needed to investigate a tax's assessment or collection, tax officials may question taxpayers, those who owe them m…
外国人の技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に関する法律
Forcing a trainee to train in breach of Article 46 is punishable by imprisonment (拘禁刑) of one to ten years or a fine of…
女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律
Anyone doing a local government's entrusted consultation work for women at work, or the work of a regional council (協議会)…
学校教育法
Principals and teachers: no one may be one who has been sentenced to imprisonment (拘禁刑) or heavier; whose teaching certi…
宅地建物取引業法
The licensing authority must revoke the licence where, among other things, the broker obtained it by fraud; becomes bank…
性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律
Where the images were copied from storage connected over a network, under Article 218(2) or 509(2) of the Code of Crimin…
A false notification about a matter that is not entered in a register, or about a matter concerning a foreign national,…
所得税法
Escaping income tax, or obtaining a refund by carrying back a net loss, through deception or other wrongful acts is puni…
This Ministerial Order (省令) sets no penalties of its own; they are in the Income Tax Act. Under Article 242 of the Act,…
旅券法
The Minister for Foreign Affairs or a consular officer may refuse to issue an ordinary passport, or to add a destination…
The governor (都道府県知事) may refuse a licence if the facility's structure and equipment fall short of standards a Cabinet O…
日本国との平和条約に基づき日本の国籍を離脱した者等の出入国管理に関する特例法
A descendant who comes to stay in Japan by birth or another event without the landing procedure may stay without a statu…
日本国との平和条約に基づき日本の国籍を離脱した者等の出入国管理に関する特例法施行規則
Besides immigration inspectors, immigration control officers, police officers and coast guard officers, whom the Act nam…
東日本大震災からの復興のための施策を実施するために必要な財源の確保に関する特別措置法
Evading the special income tax for reconstruction by deception or other wrongful acts is punishable by imprisonment (拘禁刑…
An approved organization recruiting for its members under Article 16 is bound by parts of the Employment Security Act (職…
At the asset disclosure date, which is not public, the debtor — or its legal representative, or for a corporation its re…
民事調停法
Chapter 3 (罰則, penal provisions) also makes crimes of leaks by civil mediation commissioners, serving or former: disclos…
A representative, agent, employee or other worker of a corporation who, by deception or other wrongful acts, escapes cor…
Evading consumption tax, or obtaining a refund, by deception or other wrongful acts is punishable by imprisonment (拘禁刑)…
消費者契約法
An organization's officer, employee or expert adviser who takes money or another benefit, for themselves or a third part…
Drilling, deepening an outlet, installing powered equipment or extracting as a business without permission, or disobeyin…
特定商取引に関する法律
The minister may require reports and documents from businesses, and send officials to enter their premises, inspect book…
特定電子メールの送信の適正化等に関する法律
Sending specified electronic mail with false sender information is a crime, punishable by imprisonment (拘禁刑) of up to on…
特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律
Breaking the Minister's order is punishable by imprisonment (拘禁刑) of up to one year or a fine of up to 1,000,000 yen. Fa…
犯罪による収益の移転防止に関する法律
Where a business breaks its duties to verify, keep records, report suspicious transactions and keep reports secret, or i…
From anyone who obtained assistance by a false application or other wrongful means, or got another person to, the govern…
Escaping inheritance or gift tax by deception or other wrongful acts is punishable by imprisonment (拘禁刑) of up to ten ye…
Chapter 14 (Articles 265 to 277) makes crimes of acts done to harm creditors, punished once the order opening the procee…
Such an institution must act faithfully for participants, and must not, among other things, promise to bear their losses…
Article 5 shuts out minors and bankrupts not yet discharged, whatever their examination result. It also shuts out, for t…
Getting a refund of income tax under Article 37-13(11), which concerns shares in specified small companies (特定中小会社), by…
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare publishes guidelines on equal treatment, stating working conditions, accurate…
育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律
The Act's only penalty on its employer duties is a non-criminal fine (過料) of up to 200,000 yen for not making a report t…
自動車の運転により人を死傷させる行為等の処罰に関する法律
Imprisonment (拘禁刑) is served in a penal institution, and under the Penal Code (刑法) a fixed term runs from 1 month to 20…
Putting a car into operation without compulsory insurance or mutual aid, against Article 5, is punished by imprisonment…
著作権法
Infringing a copyright, print right or neighboring right is punishable by imprisonment (拘禁刑) of up to 10 years, a fine o…
The Act's one penalty, in Article 87, is for a member of the Administrative Complaint Review Board who discloses a secre…
行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律
To the extent needed to enforce the Act, the Commission can require anyone handling specific personal information, and o…
賃金の支払の確保等に関する法律
An employer that dismisses or otherwise mistreats a worker for reporting a breach can be punished by imprisonment (拘禁刑)…
資金決済に関する法律
Issuing third-party prepaid payment instruments without registration, carrying on electronic payment instruments service…
道路交通法
A police officer who finds a driver driving without a licence, after drinking, while unfit through tiredness, illness or…
道路運送車両法
Penalties are in Chapter 8 (Articles 106 to 113). Using on roads a vehicle that is not registered, or that has no valid…
Disobeying such an instruction is punishable by imprisonment (拘禁刑) of up to six months or a fine of up to 500,000 yen.
配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律
Violating a protection order — including one issued for violence by a partner one lives with under Article 28-2 — is pun…
Submitting a securities registration statement or annual securities report with a false statement on a material matter,…
銀行法
Where needed for sound banking, the Prime Minister may require a bank or its bank agents to report on their business and…
障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律
The penalty chapter (Chapter V) fines an employer up to 300,000 yen for not making a required report or making a false o…
An employer who fails to notify insured status or notifies falsely, disadvantages a worker in breach of Article 73, fail…
電気工事士法
Doing electrical work that Article 3 reserves to Class 1 electricians, to Class 1 and Class 2 electricians, or to qualif…
高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may provide anonymised medical insurance information (匿名医療保険等関連情報), processed…