A person who falls under any of the following items is punished by imprisonment for not more than six months or by a fine of not more than 300,000 yen:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、六月以下の拘禁刑又は三十万円以下の罰金に処する。
a person who violates the provisions of Article 3, Article 4, Article 7, Article 16, Article 17, Article 18, paragraph (1), Article 19, Article 20, Article 22, paragraph (4), Article 32, Article 34, Article 35, Article 36, paragraph (6), Article 37, Article 39 (excluding paragraph (7)), Article 61, Article 62, Articles 64-3 through 67, Article 72, Articles 75 through 77, Article 79, Article 80, Article 94, paragraph (2), Article 96, or Article 104, paragraph (2);
a person who violates an Order under the provisions of Article 33, paragraph (2), Article 96-2, paragraph (2), or Article 96-3, paragraph (1);
第三十三条第二項、第九十六条の二第二項又は第九十六条の三第一項の規定による命令に違反した者
a person who violates an Order of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare issued based on the provisions of Article 40;
第四十条の規定に基づいて発する厚生労働省令に違反した者
a person who violates an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare issued based on the provisions of Article 70 (limited to those parts of that Order relating to the provisions of Article 62 or Article 64-3).
fine
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 detention (拘留) and a petty fine (科料) (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). A person who cannot pay it in full is held in a workhouse (労役場) for one day to two years, or up to three years where fines are imposed together, a period set when the sentence is passed (Article 18, paragraphs (1), (3) and (4)); not within thirty days of the sentence becoming final without the person's consent (paragraph (5)). If it is not enforced for three years after the sentence becomes final, the person is released from it by prescription (Articles 31 and 32, item (v)); the three years do not run while its execution is suspended under law or the person is abroad, and an act of execution interrupts them (Articles 33 and 34, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 15, 18, 31 to 34 as a reference.
imprisonment
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 can be raised to thirty years where the punishment is aggravated, or cut below one month where it is reduced (Article 14, paragraph (2)). To help the person reform and rehabilitate, they may be made to do work or given guidance (Article 12, paragraph (3)). It ranks below the death penalty and above a fine (罰金) among the principal punishments (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). It replaced imprisonment with work (懲役) and imprisonment without work (禁錮) when the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) came into force (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2), and a person sentenced to either is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 443, paragraph (1)).
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.