Chapter XL Crimes of Destruction and Concealment
第四十章 毀棄及び隠匿の罪
Article 258Damaging Documents for Government Use
第二百五十八条(公用文書等毀棄)
A person who damages a document or an electronic or magnetic record in use by a public office is punished by imprisonment for 3 months or more and 7 years or less.
Article 259Damaging Documents for Private Use
第二百五十九条(私用文書等毀棄)
A person who damages a document or electronic or magnetic record of another person that concerns rights or duties is punished by imprisonment for 5 years or less.
権利又は義務に関する他人の文書又は電磁的記録を毀棄した者は、五年以下の拘禁刑に処する。
Article 260Damage to Buildings; Causing Death or Injury
第二百六十条(建造物等損壊及び同致死傷)
A person who damages a building or vessel of another person is punished by imprisonment for 5 years or less. If such person thereby causes the death or injury of another person, the person is dealt with by the punishment for the crimes of injury or the punishment prescribed in the preceding paragraph, whichever is severer.
他人の建造物又は艦船を損壊した者は、五年以下の拘禁刑に処する。よって人を死傷させた者は、傷害の罪と比較して、重い刑により処断する。
第二百六十一条(器物損壊等)
A person who damages or injures property beyond what are prescribed under the preceding three Articles is punished by imprisonment for 3 years or less, a fine of 300,000 yen or less or a petty fine.
前三条に規定するもののほか、他人の物を損壊し、又は傷害した者は、三年以下の拘禁刑又は三十万円以下の罰金若しくは科料に処する。
Article 262Damage to the Offender's Property
第二百六十二条(自己の物の損壊等)
Even when the property prescribed for in the preceding three Articles belongs to the offender, the offender is dealt with as an offender who has damaged another person's property when the property has been attached, encumbered or leased, or a spouse's right of residence has been established on it.
自己の物であっても、差押えを受け、物権を負担し、賃貸し、又は配偶者居住権が設定されたものを損壊し、又は傷害したときは、前三条の例による。
Article 262-2Damaging of Boundaries
第二百六十二条の二(境界損壊)
A person who damages, moves or removes a boundary mark or otherwise makes a boundary unrecognizable is punished by imprisonment for 5 years or less or a fine of 500,000 yen or less.
境界標を損壊し、移動し、若しくは除去し、又はその他の方法により、土地の境界を認識することができないようにした者は、五年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。
Article 263Concealment of Letters
第二百六十三条(信書隠匿)
A person who conceals a letter of another person is punished by imprisonment for 6 months or less, a fine of 100,000 yen or less or a petty fine.
他人の信書を隠匿した者は、六月以下の拘禁刑又は十万円以下の罰金若しくは科料に処する。
Article 264Offense Subject to Complaint
第二百六十四条(親告罪)
The crimes prescribed under Articles 259, 261 and the preceding Article is prosecuted only upon complaint.