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拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term…
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.
特別永住者証明書
The certificate the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency (出入国在留管理庁長官) issues to every special permanent resident (特別永住者) (Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inte…
Written by AI using Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan, Arts. 7 to 13, 15, 16, 16-2, 17, 23, 26 as a reference.
懲役
A punishment the Penal Code had until Act No. 67 of 2022 came into force: being held in a penal institution (刑事施設) and made to do prescribed work, for life or for a fixed term of o…
Written by AI using Penal Code, former Art. 12, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Arts. 441, 443 as a reference.
禁錮
A punishment the Penal Code had until Act No. 67 of 2022 came into force: being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years, witho…
Written by AI using Penal Code, former Arts. 12, 13, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Arts. 441, 443 as a reference.
罰金
A criminal punishment of paying money to the state, of 10,000 yen or more, or less where it is reduced (Penal Code, Article 15). It ranks below imprisonment (拘禁刑) and above penal d…
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 15, 18, 31 to 34 as a reference.
拘留
A short criminal punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設) for one day to less than thirty days (Penal Code, Article 16, paragraph (1)). As with imprisonment (拘禁刑), th…
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 16 as a reference.
特別永住者
A person who may live in Japan permanently under a status the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty…
Written by AI using Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan, Arts. 2 to 5, 7, 17, 22, 23 and Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act, Art. 26-2 as a reference.
執行猶予
A court's decision, when it passes a sentence, to hold off carrying it out. A person sentenced to imprisonment (拘禁刑) of three years or less or a fine (罰金) of 500,000 yen or less wh…
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 25 to 27-2 as a reference.
Special permission to stay in Japan that the Minister of Justice may grant, under Article 50, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act, to a foreign national who falls under the grounds for deportation (退去強制).
A foreign national who has overstayed or falls under certain other grounds for deportation, but who came forward intending to leave promptly and meets the other conditions of Article 24-3, and is therefore ordered to depart instead of being deported.
在留カード等
A residence card (在留カード), or a residence card electronic record (在留カード電磁的記録) that is to be displayed and used as a residence card.
A ground for refusing a foreign national landing under Article 5, paragraph (1), item (iv), (v), (vii), (ix) or (ix)-2 of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — among them a sentence of imprisonment of one year or more (other than for a political offence), a sentence for breaking drug-control laws, work directly connected with prostitution (unless done while under another's control as a victim of trafficking), and a deportation, departure order or refusal of landing within the period the Act sets.
The day the 2022 Act amending the Penal Code and other laws (刑法等の一部を改正する法律, Act No. 67 of 2022) comes into effect.
Imprisonment with work under Article 12 of the Penal Code as it stood before the 2022 Act amending it (Act No. 67 of 2022); a person so sentenced is treated here as sentenced to imprisonment (拘禁刑, こうきんけい) for life or for the same term.
The day the 2022 Act amending the Penal Code and other laws (刑法等の一部を改正する法律, Act No. 67 of 2022) comes into effect.
Imprisonment without work under Article 13 of the Penal Code as it stood before the 2022 Act amending it (Act No. 67 of 2022), which Article has since been deleted; a person so sentenced is treated here as sentenced to imprisonment (拘禁刑, こうきんけい) for life or for the same term.
In Article 11, paragraphs (2) to (4) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 28 of 2023, the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act as amended by Article 3 of Act No. 28 of 2023.
The Penal Code as it stood before Article 2 of the 2022 Act amending the Penal Code and other laws (刑法等の一部を改正する法律, Act No. 67 of 2022) amended it.