If any of the following items applies, the person that has committed the violation is subject to imprisonment for not more than 10 years, a fine of not more than 20 million yen, or both:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、当該違反行為をした者は、十年以下の拘禁刑若しくは二千万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。
if a person acquires trade secrets through an act of fraud, etc. (meaning acts of deceiving, assaulting, or intimidating a person; the same applies in the following item), or through an act that infringes on operational management (meaning acts of stealing assets, breaking into a facility, making unauthorized access (as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Unauthorized Computer Access Act (Act No. 128 of 1999)), or any other act prejudicing the management maintained by the trade secret holder; the same applies in the following item), for the purpose of wrongful gain or causing damage to the trade secret holder;
不正の利益を得る目的で、又はその営業秘密保有者に損害を加える目的で、詐欺等行為（人を欺き、人に暴行を加え、又は人を脅迫する行為をいう。次号において同じ。）又は管理侵害行為（財物の窃取、施設への侵入、不正アクセス行為（不正アクセス行為の禁止等に関する法律（平成十一年法律第百二十八号）第二条第四項に規定する不正アクセス行為をいう。）その他の営業秘密保有者の管理を害する行為をいう。次号において同じ。）により、営業秘密を取得したとき。
if a person uses or discloses trade secrets acquired through an act of fraud, etc., or through infringing on management, for the purpose of wrongful gain or causing damage to the trade secret holder;
if a person, for the purpose of wrongful gain or causing damage to the trade secret holder, uses or discloses trade secrets acquired by a disclosure that constitutes an offence prescribed in the preceding item or items (ii) through (iv) of the following paragraph, paragraph (4), item (ii) (limited to the part regarding a disclosure that constitutes an offence prescribed in the preceding three items) or paragraph (5), item (ii);
if a person, for the purpose of wrongful gain or causing damage to the trade secret holder, uses or discloses trade secrets acquired, knowing that there has been a disclosure that constitutes an offence prescribed in the preceding two items or items (ii) through (iv) of the following paragraph, a crime as referred to in paragraph (4), item (ii) (limited to the part regarding a disclosure that constitutes an offence prescribed in the preceding two items), or a crime as referred to in paragraph (5), item (ii); or
if a person, for the purpose of wrongful gain or causing damage to the trade secret holder, assigns, delivers, displays for the purpose of transfer or delivery, exports, imports, or provides through telecommunications lines things created by an act conducted by the same person or another person that constitutes an offence prescribed in item (ii) through the preceding item or paragraph (4), item (iii) (limited to the act of using a technical secret; referred to as "act of illegal use" in this item below) (excluding a person that has received the things by transfer without knowing that the things were created by an act of illegal use, and has transferred, delivered, displayed for the purpose of transfer or delivery, exported, imported, or provided through telecommunications lines those things).
A person that falls under any of the following items is subject to imprisonment for not more than 10 years, a fine of not more than 20 million yen, or both:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、十年以下の拘禁刑若しくは二千万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。
a person to whom the trade secret holder has disclosed their trade secrets, and who, for the purpose of wrongful gain or causing damage to the trade secret holder, obtains the trade secrets by any of the following means, in breach of duties related to the management of the trade secrets;
misappropriating a recording medium containing trade secrets, etc. (meaning a document, a drawing, or a recording medium on which trade secrets are described or recorded; the same applies in this item below) or an object that represents trade secrets;
reproducing a description or a record from a recording medium containing trade secrets, etc., or an object that represents trade secrets;
not deleting a description or a record that should be deleted from a recording medium containing trade secrets, etc., and disguising this act as if the description or record in the recording medium containing the trade secrets, etc. had been deleted;
営業秘密記録媒体等の記載又は記録であって、消去すべきものを消去せず、かつ、当該記載又は記録を消去したように仮装すること。
a person to whom the trade secret holder has disclosed trade secrets, and who, for the purpose of wrongful gain or causing damage to the trade secret holder, uses or discloses trade secrets obtained through the means stated in (a) through (c) of the preceding item, in breach of the duty related to the management of the trade secrets;
a person that is an officer (meaning a council member, director, executive officer, executive member, inspector or auditor, or other equivalent person; the same applies in the following item) or employee of the trade secret holder; to whom the trade secret holder has disclosed trade secrets; and who, for the purpose of wrongful gain or causing damage to the trade secret holder, uses or discloses the trade secrets in breach of the duty related to the management of the trade secrets (excluding the person stated in the preceding item);
a person that was an officer or employee of the trade secret holder, to whom the trade secret holder had disclosed trade secrets, and who, for the purpose of wrongful gain or causing damage to the trade secret holder, offered to disclose the trade secrets, or received a request to use or disclose the trade secrets, while holding that position, in breach of the legal duty related to the management of the trade secrets, and uses or discloses them after leaving that position (excluding the person stated in item (ii)); or
a person that, for the purpose of wrongful gain or causing damage to the trade secret holder, assigns, delivers, displays for the purpose of transfer or delivery, exports, imports, or provides through a telecommunications lines things created by an act, committed by the person or another person, that constitutes an offense referred to in item (ii) through the preceding item or paragraph (5), item (iii) (limited to an act of using a technical secret; referred to as "act of illegal use by an employee, etc." in this item below) (except for a person that has accepted those things by transfer without knowing that they were created by an act of illegal use by an employee, etc., and has transferred, delivered, displayed for the purpose of transfer or delivery, exported, imported, or provided through a telecommunications lines those things).
If any of the following items applies, the person that has committed the violation is subject to imprisonment for not more than five years, a fine of not more than 5 million yen, or both:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、当該違反行為をした者は、五年以下の拘禁刑若しくは五百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。
if a person, for a wrongful purpose, commits any act of unfair competition stated in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i) or (xx);
if a person, for the purpose of wrongful gain through the use of the reputation or fame of another person's famous indication of goods or business, or for the purpose of injuring that reputation or fame, commits any act of unfair competition stated in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii);
if a person, for the purpose of wrongful gain, commits any act of unfair competition stated in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (iii);
if a person, for the purpose of wrongful gain, or for the purpose of causing damage to another person that is using technological restriction measures for their business purposes, commits any act of unfair competition stated in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xvii) or (xviii);
不正の利益を得る目的で、又は営業上技術的制限手段を用いている者に損害を加える目的で、第二条第一項第十七号又は第十八号に掲げる不正競争を行ったとき。
if a person makes a false indication on goods, services, in an advertisement of goods or services, or in trade documents or communications, that is likely to mislead as to the place of origin, quality, contents, manufacturing process, purpose, or quantity of the goods, or as to the quality, contents, purpose, or quantity of the services (excluding a case stated in item (i));
商品若しくは役務若しくはその広告若しくは取引に用いる書類若しくは通信にその商品の原産地、品質、内容、製造方法、用途若しくは数量又はその役務の質、内容、用途若しくは数量について誤認させるような虚偽の表示をしたとき（第一号に掲げる場合を除く。）。
if a person violates a protective order; or
秘密保持命令に違反したとき。
if a person violates the provisions of Article 16 or Article 17.
If any of the following items apply, the person that has committed the violation is subject to imprisonment for not more than 10 years, a fine of not more than 30 million yen, or both:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、当該違反行為をした者は、十年以下の拘禁刑若しくは三千万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。
if a person commits offences prescribed in paragraph (1), item (i) for the purpose of use outside Japan;
日本国外において使用する目的で、第一項第一号の罪を犯したとき。
if a person makes a disclosure that constitutes offences prescribed in paragraph (1), item (ii) through (iv), knowing that the receiving party has the purpose of their use outside Japan that constitutes the offences;
相手方に日本国外において第一項第二号から第四号までの罪に当たる使用をする目的があることの情を知って、これらの罪に当たる開示をしたとき。
if a person outside Japan uses the trade secrets of a trade secret holder conducting business within Japan in a manner that constitutes the offences prescribed in paragraph (1), items (ii) through (iv); or
日本国内において事業を行う営業秘密保有者の営業秘密について、日本国外において第一項第二号から第四号までの罪に当たる使用をしたとき。
if a person violates the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (1).
第十八条第一項の規定に違反したとき。
A person that falls under any of the following items is subject to imprisonment for not more than 10 years, a fine of not more than 30 million yen, or both:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、十年以下の拘禁刑若しくは三千万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。
a person that commits offences prescribed in paragraph (2), item (i) for the purpose of use outside Japan;
日本国外において使用する目的で、第二項第一号の罪を犯した者
a person that makes a disclosure that constitutes offences prescribed in paragraph (2), item (ii) through (iv), knowing that the receiving party has the purpose of their use outside Japan that constitutes the offences; or
相手方に日本国外において第二項第二号から第四号までの罪に当たる使用をする目的があることの情を知って、これらの罪に当たる開示をした者
a person outside Japan uses the trade secrets of a trade secret holder conducting business within Japan in a manner that constitutes the offences prescribed in paragraph (2), items (ii) through (iv).
日本国内において事業を行う営業秘密保有者の営業秘密について、日本国外において第二項第二号から第四号までの罪に当たる使用をした者
An attempt of offences prescribed in paragraph (1), paragraph (2) (excluding item (i)), paragraph (4) (excluding item (iv)) and the preceding paragraph (excluding item (i)) is subject to punishment.
The offence prescribed in paragraph (3), item (vi) may not be prosecuted without a criminal complaint.
第三項第六号の罪は、告訴がなければ公訴を提起することができない。
The offences prescribed in each item of paragraph (1) (excluding item (v)), the items of paragraph (2) (excluding item (v)), paragraph (4), item (i) or (ii), paragraph (5), item (i) or (ii), or paragraph (6) (excluding the part regarding paragraph (1), item (v) or paragraph (2), item (v)) also apply to a person that commits the offences outside Japan in connection with the trade secrets of a trade secret holder conducting business within Japan.
The offence prescribed in paragraph (3), item (vi) also applies to a person that commits the crime referred to in that item outside Japan.
The offence prescribed in paragraph (4), item (iv) is governed by Article 3 of the Penal Code (Act No. 45 of 1907).
第四項第四号の罪は、刑法（明治四十年法律第四十五号）第三条の例に従う。
The offence prescribed in paragraph (4), item (iv) also applies to any non-Japanese national who is a representative, agent, employee, or other worker of a corporation having its principal office in Japan and who has committed the offence prescribed in the same item outside Japan with regard to the business of the corporation.
The provisions of paragraphs (1) through (6) do not preclude the application of penal provisions under the Penal Code or any other legislation.
第一項から第六項までの規定は、刑法その他の罰則の適用を妨げない。
The following assets may be confiscated:
次に掲げる財産は、これを没収することができる。
assets gained as profits from the assets stated in the preceding item, assets gained in exchange for the assets stated in the same item, assets gained in exchange for either of these types of assets, or other assets gained through holding or disposing of the assets stated in that item.
The provisions of Articles 14 and 15 of the Act on Punishment of Organized Crime and Control of Crime Proceeds (Act No. 136 of 1999; referred to as "Organized Crime Punishment Act" below) apply mutatis mutandis to the confiscation under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the phrase "each item of paragraph (1) or each item of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article" in Article 14 of the Organized Crime Punishment Act is to be replaced with "each item of Article 21, paragraph (13) of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act".
組織的な犯罪の処罰及び犯罪収益の規制等に関する法律（平成十一年法律第百三十六号。以下「組織的犯罪処罰法」という。）第十四条及び第十五条の規定は、前項の規定による没収について準用する。この場合において、組織的犯罪処罰法第十四条中「前条第一項各号又は第四項各号」とあるのは、「不正競争防止法第二十一条第十三項各号」と読み替えるものとする。
When the assets stated in each item of paragraph (13) cannot be confiscated, or when it is deemed inappropriate to confiscate them due to their nature, their condition of use, the existence or non-existence of rights held by any person other than the offender, or other circumstances, the equivalent value of the assets may be collected from the offender.
第十三項各号に掲げる財産を没収することができないとき、又は当該財産の性質、その使用の状況、当該財産に関する犯人以外の者の権利の有無その他の事情からこれを没収することが相当でないと認められるときは、その価額を犯人から追徴することができる。