The principal punishments are categorized as the death penalty, imprisonment, fine, penal detention and petty fine, with confiscation as a supplementary punishment.

①The order of severity of the principal punishments is according to the order in which they are provided for in the preceding Article.

②Between punishments of the same type, the punishment prescribed with a higher maximum term or amount is severer; and when the maximum terms or amounts are equal, the punishment prescribed with the higher minimum term or amount is severer.

③Between death penalties or punishments of the same type which have equal maximum and minimum terms or amounts, the order of severity is determined in light of the circumstances of the crimes.

①The death penalty is executed by hanging at a penal institution.

②A person who has been sentenced to the death penalty is detained in a jail until their execution.

①Imprisonment is either for life or with a definite term, and imprisonment for a definite term is for a term of one month or more and 20 years or less.

②Imprisonment consists of confinement in a penal institution.

③A person who has been sentenced to imprisonment may be made to perform necessary work, or may be given necessary guidance, in order to achieve their reform and rehabilitation.

①If the death penalty or imprisonment for life is reduced to imprisonment for a definite term, its maximum term is 30 years.

②If imprisonment for a definite term is aggravated, the term may be extended to 30 years, and if it is reduced, the term may be reduced to less than one month.

A fine is not less than 10,000 yen; provided, however, that if it is reduced, the amount may be reduced to less than 10,000 yen.

①Penal detention consists of confinement in a penal institution for not less than 1 day but less than 30 days.

②A person who has been sentenced to penal detention may be made to perform necessary work, or may be given necessary guidance, in order to achieve their reform and rehabilitation.

A petty fine is not less than 1,000 yen but less than 10,000 yen.

①A person who defaults in payment of a fine in full is detained in a workhouse for a term of not less than one day but not more than two years.

②A person who defaults in payment of a petty fine in full is detained in a workhouse for a term of not less than one day but not more than 30 days.

③When fines are imposed cumulatively or when a fine and a petty fine are imposed cumulatively, the term of detention may not exceed three years. When petty fines are imposed cumulatively, the term of detention may not exceed 60 days.

④When rendering a sentence of a fine or petty fine the court is to simultaneously determine and render a term of detention in the case of a default in the full payment thereof.

⑤Without the consent of the sentenced person, confinement for default of a fine may not be executed within 30 days from the time when the decision has become final and binding, and confinement for default of a petty fine may not be executed within 10 days from the time when the decision has become final and binding.

⑥When a person sentenced to a fine or petty fine has made a payment of part of the fine, the term of detention is calculated by dividing the amount of the unpaid payments by the amount corresponding to the ratio of one day of detention (a remainder less than one day is deemed as one whole day) reduced by a period of days in proportion to the amount of payments made for the fine or petty fine imposed.

①The following objects may be confiscated:

②An object set forth in the preceding paragraph may only be confiscated if it does not belong to a person other than the criminal; provided, however, that it may be confiscated if a person other than the criminal acquires the object after the crime with knowledge of the applicability of the preceding items.

When the whole or part of the object prescribed in items (iii) and (iv) of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article cannot be confiscated, a sum of money equivalent thereto may be collected.

Confiscation cannot be imposed to crimes punishable only by penal detention or a petty fine, except when specifically provided for; provided, however, that this does not apply to the object set forth in item (i) of paragraph (1) of Article 19.

The days spent in pre-sentencing detention may be included in whole or in part into the sentence imposed.