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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…
For a registration of a description, the registrar may examine the property and, where needed, between sunrise and sunse…
Officers, employees, agents and others acting for a business's benefit count as that business for the definition of a tr…
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…
The penalties are in Chapter 14. Members of the certification, benefit-review and examination bodies, care managers and…
A director, accounting advisor, company auditor, executive officer, manager (支配人) or certain other persons who, to benef…
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
The mayor records, deletes or corrects resident records on notifications or on the mayor's own authority (職権), and on le…
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…
公益通報者保護法
Retaliation is dealt with between the parties rather than by penalty: a dismissal or a cancelled dispatch contract for p…
最低賃金法
Failing to pay at least the regional minimum wage is punishable by a fine of up to 500,000 yen. The fine covers the regi…
出入国管理及び難民認定法
Anyone who has a foreign national do illegal work (不法就労活動) in their business, keeps a foreign national under their contr…
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…
A Cabinet Order (政令) that settles matters the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act leaves to a Cabinet Order,…
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…
Its duties are enforced through the Labor Standards Act. For example, failing to set out the working conditions listed i…
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…
労働施策の総合的な推進並びに労働者の雇用の安定及び職業生活の充実等に関する法律
A fine of up to 300,000 yen applies to not filing, or falsely filing, the report of a large fluctuation in employment or…
労働組合法
Where a court's final judgment has upheld all or part of an order for relief and the order is then broken, the person wh…
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…
Breaking the ten days' notice rule of Article 37 is punishable by a fine of up to 100,000 yen, and taking an act of disp…
The Minister may order a doctor who was reprimanded or suspended, or a person seeking a new licence after revocation, to…
Makers and sellers of pharmaceuticals and other medical products: where a pharmaceutical, medical device or regenerative…
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
Putting a certification mark, or one that could be mistaken for it, on goods, advertisements or documents without holdin…
学校教育法
A custodian who has been urged (督促) to fulfil the duty to enrol a child, under the procedure a Cabinet Order sets, and s…
宅地建物取引業法
Where it is necessary to ensure the business is run properly, the Minister may require anyone carrying on the business,…
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
Up to five years' imprisonment (拘禁刑), a fine of up to 3 million yen, or both, is the penalty for getting a passport or t…
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…
Putting a certification mark, or one that could be confused with it, on advertising or the other items, other than a cer…
At the asset disclosure date, which is not public, the debtor — or its legal representative, or for a corporation its re…
A witness who fails to appear without good reason is ordered by ruling to bear the costs this caused and to pay a civil…
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…
Anyone who analyses a hot spring's composition for the posting, who must register each facility where the analysis is do…
特定受託事業者に係る取引の適正化等に関する法律
Breaking an order of the Commission or the Minister, failing to report or reporting falsely, or refusing, obstructing or…
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…
Creditors take part by filing their claims with the court, and those holding taxes or fines that are bankruptcy claims m…
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…
Its penalties stand beside the measures they back — among them Article 42-3 for income tax, Article 70-13 for inheritanc…
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
Injuring or killing someone by failing to take the care that driving a motor vehicle requires is punished by up to 7 yea…
Putting a car into operation without compulsory insurance or mutual aid, against Article 5, is punished by imprisonment…
著作権法
An author or performer whose moral rights were infringed intentionally or negligently can demand, instead of or as well…
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…
製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律
Failing to state the terms, to hand over the paper copy asked for, or to make and keep the records, or making false reco…
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…
高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律
Where the Japan Organization for Employment of the Elderly, Persons with Disabilities and Job Seekers (独立行政法人高齢・障害・求職者雇用…
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…