A person who kidnaps a minor using force or through enticement is punished by imprisonment for 3 months or more and 7 years or less.

A person who kidnaps another person through the use of force or enticement for the purpose of profit, indecency, marriage or threat to the life or body is punished by imprisonment for 1 year or more and 10 years or less.

①A person who kidnaps another person through the use of force or enticement, for the purpose of causing the kidnapped person's relatives or any other person who would be concerned about the kidnapped person's safety to grant any property, taking advantage of such situation, is punished by imprisonment for life or for a definite term of 3 years or more.

②The same applies to a person, who having kidnapped another person through the use of force or enticement, causes or demands the kidnapped person's relatives or any other person who would be concerned about the kidnapped person's safety to grant any property, taking advantage of such situation.

A person who kidnaps another person through the use of force or enticement for the purpose of transporting another person from one country to another country is punished by imprisonment for a definite term of 2 years or more.

①A person who buys another person is punished by imprisonment for 3 months or more and 5 years or less.

②A person who buys a minor is punished by imprisonment for 3 months or more and 7 years or less.

③A person who buys another person for the purpose of profit, indecency, marriage or threat to the life or body, is punished by imprisonment for 1 year or more and 10 years or less.

④The preceding paragraph applies to a person who sells another person.

⑤A person who sells or buys another person for the purpose of transporting them from one country to another country is punished by imprisonment for a definite term of 2 years or more.

A person who transports a kidnapped person through the use of force or enticement or another person who has been bought or sold, from one country to another country, is punished by imprisonment for a definite term of 2 years or more.

①For the purpose of aiding another person who has committed any of the crimes prescribed under Articles 224, 225 or the preceding three Articles, a person who delivers, receives, transports or hides a person who has been kidnapped through the use of force or enticement or has been bought or sold, is punished by imprisonment for 3 months or more and 5 years or less.

②For the purpose of aiding another person who has committed the crime prescribed under paragraph (1) of Article 225-2, a person who delivers, receives, transports or hides a person who has been kidnapped is punished by imprisonment for 1 year or more and 10 years or less.

③For the purpose of profit, indecency or threat to the life or body, a person who delivers, receives, transports or hides another person who has been kidnapped or sold, is punished by imprisonment for 6 months or more and 7 years or less.

④For the purpose prescribed under paragraph (1) of Article 225-2, a person who receives another person who has been kidnapped is punished by imprisonment for a definite term of 2 years or more. The same applies to a person, who has received a kidnapped person and causes or demands such person's relative or any other person who would be concerned about the safety of the kidnapped person to deliver any property, taking advantage of such situation.

Any attempt to commit the crimes prescribed under Articles 224, 225, paragraph (1) of Article 225-2, Articles 226 through 226-3 and paragraphs (1) through (3) and the first sentence of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article is punished.

If a person who has committed the crime prescribed under Article 225-2 or paragraph (2) or (4) of Article 227 releases the kidnapped person in a safe location before being prosecuted, the punishment is reduced.

A person who prepares for commission of the crime prescribed under paragraph (1) of Article 225-2 is punished by imprisonment for 2 years or less; provided, however, that the punishment of the person who self-denounces before the person commences the crime is reduced or exculpated.

The crime prescribed under Article 224, the crime prescribed under paragraph (1) of Article 227 which is committed for the purpose of aiding the person who has committed the crime prescribed under Article 224, and the attempts to commit these crimes, are prosecuted only upon criminal complaint.