If any of the following items applies, the person who has committed the violation is subject to punishment by imprisonment for not more than three years, a fine of not more than three 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、三年以下の拘禁刑若しくは三百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。
the person receives, by wrongful means, the registration referred to in Article 66, Article 66-27, Article 66-50, or Article 66-71, the registration of a change referred to in Article 31, paragraph (4) or Article 66-75, paragraph (4), or the permission referred to in Article 59, paragraph (1), Article 60, paragraph (1), or Article 60-14, paragraph (1);
不正の手段により第六十六条、第六十六条の二十七、第六十六条の五十若しくは第六十六条の七十一の登録、第三十一条第四項若しくは第六十六条の七十五第四項の変更登録又は第五十九条第一項、第六十条第一項若しくは第六十条の十四第一項の許可を受けたとき。
the person violates the provisions of Article 36-3, Article 66-9, Article 66-34, or Article 66-79 in having another person perform registered financial institution business, financial instruments intermediary service, credit rating services, or investment management-related services contracting business;
the person violates Article 38, item (i) (limited to cases in which the violation has been committed in connection with investment management business);
the person violates Article 38, item (vii) or Article 66-14, item (i), (c);
第三十八条第七号又は第六十六条の十四第一号ハの規定に違反したとき。
the person, in violation of Article 42-7, paragraph (1), fails to carry out the provision of information under the provisions of that paragraph or carries out the provision of false information;
第四十二条の七第一項の規定に違反して、同項の規定による情報の提供をせず、又は虚偽の情報の提供をしたとき。
the person violates the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (1), Article 60, paragraph (1), or Article 60-14, paragraph (1), in conducting business prescribed in Article 59, paragraph (1), Article 60, paragraph (1), or Article 60-14, paragraph (1), without obtaining permission of the Prime Minister;
第五十九条第一項、第六十条第一項又は第六十条の十四第一項の規定に違反して内閣総理大臣の許可を受けないで第五十九条第一項、第六十条第一項又は第六十条の十四第一項に規定する業務を行つたとき。
the person violates the provisions of Article 36-3 as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 59-6 or Article 60-13 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 60-14, paragraph (2)), in having another person conduct the business prescribed in Article 59, paragraph (1), Article 60, paragraph (1), or Article 60-14, paragraph (1);
第五十九条の六又は第六十条の十三（第六十条の十四第二項において準用する場合を含む。）において準用する第三十六条の三の規定に違反して他人に第五十九条第一項、第六十条第一項又は第六十条の十四第一項に規定する業務を行わせたとき。
the person, in violation of Article 66-50, conducts high-speed trading without obtaining registration from the Prime Minister;
the person, in violation of Article 66-56, has another person conduct high-speed trading;
the person, in violation of Article 80, paragraph (1) or Article 155, paragraph (1), establishes a financial instruments market, or has another person conduct transactions on a foreign financial instruments market;
the person, in violation of Article 102-14, performs self-regulatory services prescribed in Article 84, paragraph (2) without obtaining authorization of the Prime Minister;
the person, in violation of Article 156-2, performs financial instruments obligation assumption services;
the person, in violation of Article 156-20-16, paragraph (1), performs collaborating financial instruments obligation assumption services without obtaining authorization of the Prime Minister;
第百五十六条の二十の十六第一項の規定に違反して内閣総理大臣の認可を受けないで連携金融商品債務引受業務を行つたとき。
the person, in violation of Article 156-24, paragraph (1), conducts business prescribed in that paragraph without obtaining a license from the Prime Minister; or
第百五十六条の二十四第一項の規定に違反して内閣総理大臣の免許を受けないで同項に規定する業務を行つたとき。
the person violates an order of the court under the provisions of Article 192, paragraph (1) or (2).
An officer (including a provisional board member or provisional auditor) or inspector of an incorporated association-operated financial instruments exchange, or a person that is to be the director or company auditor of an incorporated financial instruments exchange, who has made a false statement to or concealed a fact from the Prime Minister, the court, or the members of a general meeting with regard to subscription or payment for the total number of shares to be issued pursuant to the provisions of Article 101-9, the delivery of property other than money, or the particulars set forth in Article 101-9, item (iii), is subject to punishment by imprisonment for not more than three years, a fine of not more than three million yen, or both.
第百一条の九の規定により発行する株式の総数の引受け、払込み若しくは金銭以外の財産の給付又は同条第三号に掲げる事項について、内閣総理大臣、裁判所又は会員の総会に対して虚偽の申述を行い、又は事実を隠蔽した会員金融商品取引所の役員（仮理事及び仮監事を含む。）若しくは検査役又は株式会社金融商品取引所の取締役若しくは監査役となるべき者は、三年以下の拘禁刑若しくは三百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。
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(Issuance of Shares upon Entity Conversion)
At the time of an entity conversion, an incorporated association-operated financial instruments exchange operated may issue shares in the incorporated financial instruments exchange after entity…
会員金融商品取引所は、第百一条の六第一項の規定による株式の割当てを行うほか、組織変更に際して、組織変更後株式会社金融商品取引所の株式を発行することができる。この場合においては、組織変更計画において、次に掲げる事項を定めなければならない。
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if property other than money will be the subject of contribution, an indication of this, as well as the content and the value of that property;
金銭以外の財産を出資の目的とするときは、その旨並びに当該財産の内容及び価額
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A self-regulatory organization must obtain the authorization of the Prime Minister if it seeks to perform self-regulatory services.
自主規制法人は、自主規制業務を行おうとするときは、内閣総理大臣の認可を受けなければならない。
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Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 29 and Article 80, paragraph (1), with the authorization of the Prime Minster, the operator of a foreign financial instruments market may allow the persons…
外国金融商品市場を開設する者は、第二十九条及び第八十条第一項の規定にかかわらず、内閣総理大臣の認可を受けて、その使用する電子情報処理組織と次に掲げる者の使用に係る入出力装置（以下「外国金融商品取引所入出力装置」という。）とを接続することにより…
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A person not licensed by the Prime Minister must not perform financial instruments obligation assumption services.
金融商品債務引受業は、内閣総理大臣の免許を受けた者でなければ、行つてはならない。
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With the authorization of the Prime Minister, a financial instruments clearing organization may conclude a contract for collaborating financial instruments obligation assumption services…
金融商品取引清算機関は、内閣総理大臣の認可を受けて、連携清算機関等（他の金融商品取引清算機関、外国金融商品取引清算機関又は外国の法令に準拠して設立された法人で外国において金融商品債務引受業と同種類の業務を行う者をいう。以下同じ。）と連携金融商品債務引受業務（第百五十六条の六十二第一号に掲げる取引以外の対象取引に係る清…
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A person seeking use the clearing framework of a financial instruments exchange market operated by a financial instruments exchange or the clearing framework of an over-the-counter securities market…
金融商品取引所の会員等又は認可金融商品取引業協会の協会員に対し、金融商品取引業者が顧客に信用を供与して行う有価証券の売買その他の取引（以下「信用取引」という。）その他政令で定める取引の決済に必要な金銭又は有価証券を…
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If the court finds that the case falls under any of the following items, it may issue an order against a person that has performed or is attempting to perform the acts specified respectively in those…
裁判所は、次の各号のいずれかに該当すると認めるときは、内閣総理大臣又は内閣総理大臣及び財務大臣の申立てにより、当該各号に定める行為を行い、又は行おうとする者に対し、その行為の禁止又は停止を命ずることができる。
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A court may rescind or change an order issued pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
裁判所は、前項の規定により発した命令を取り消し、又は変更することができる。
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If a financial instruments business operator seeks to change the particular set forth in Article 29-2, paragraph (1), items (v) through (vi), item (vii), (b), item (viii), or item (ix)…
金融商品取引業者は、第二十九条の二第一項第五号から第六号まで、第七号ロ、第八号又は第九号に掲げる事項について変更をしようとするときは、内閣府令で定めるところにより、内閣総理大臣の行う変更登録を受けなければならない。
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A financial instruments business operator, etc. must not allow another person to engage in financial instruments business…
金融商品取引業者等は、自己の名義をもつて、他人に金融商品取引業（登録金融機関にあつては、登録金融機関業務。以下この款において同じ。）を行わせてはならない。
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providing a customer with false information in connection with the conclusion of a financial instruments transaction contract or in connection with its solicitation;
金融商品取引契約の締結又はその勧誘に関して、顧客に対し虚偽のことを告げる行為
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providing a specified financial index administrator (meaning the specified financial index administrator prescribed in Article 156-85, paragraph (1); hereinafter the same applies in this item) with…
自己又は第三者の利益を図る目的をもつて、特定金融指標算出者（第百五十六条の八十五第一項に規定する特定金融指標算出者をいう。以下この号において同じ。）に対し、特定金融指標の算出に関し…
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With regard to investment property, a financial instruments business operator, etc., pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, must periodically provide the known right holders of that…
金融商品取引業者等は、運用財産について、内閣府令で定めるところにより、定期に、当該運用財産に係る知れている権利者に対し、当該運用財産に関する運用の状況その他の内閣府令で定める事項に係る情報を提供しなければならない。
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The provisions of Article 36-3; Article 36-4, paragraph (1); Article 38 (limited to the part that involves items (i) through (iii) and (ix)); and Article 44-4 apply mutatis mutandis to the…
第三十六条の三、第三十六条の四第一項、第三十八条（第一号から第三号まで及び第九号に係る部分に限る。）及び第四十四条の四の規定は、第五十九条第一項の許可を受けた外国証券業者の引受業務について準用する。
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Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 29 and the preceding Article, with the permission of the Prime Minister, a foreign securities services provider may participate in a wholesale underwriting…
外国証券業者は、第二十九条及び前条の規定にかかわらず、内閣総理大臣の許可を受けて、その行う有価証券の引受けの業務のうち、元引受契約（第二十一条第四項に規定する元引受契約をいう。次条第一項第六号ヘにおいて同じ。）への参加その他の行為で政令で定めるものを国内において行うこと（以下この節において「引受業務」という。）ができ…
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The provisions of Article 35-3 apply mutatis mutandis to on-exchange transaction services related to high-speed trading conducted by an authorized firm for on-exchange transactions…
第三十五条の三の規定は取引所取引許可業者の行う高速取引行為に係る取引所取引業務について、第三十六条の三、第三十八条（第八号及び第九号に係る部分に限る。）及び第四十条（第二号に係る部分に限る。）の規定は取引所取引許可業者の取引所取引業務について、それぞれ準用する。
Open this provisionA person that is governed by the laws and regulations of a foreign country and conducts over-the-counter derivatives transactions, etc. on a regular basis in a foreign country…
外国の法令に準拠し、外国において店頭デリバティブ取引等を業として行う者であつて、金融商品取引業者又は金融機関（銀行、協同組織金融機関その他政令で定める金融機関をいう。）のいずれにも該当しないものは、有価証券関連業を行う者を相手方とする場合その他これに準ずる場合として政令で定める場合には…
Open this provisionThe provisions of Article 60, paragraphs (2) through (4), Article 60-2 (excluding paragraph (1), items (iv), (vii) and (x)) and Article 60-3 (excluding paragraph (1), item (i), (d) and item (iii))…
第六十条第二項から第四項まで、第六十条の二（第一項第四号、第七号及び第十号を除く。）及び第六十条の三（第一項第一号ニ及び第三号を除く。）の規定は前項の許可について、第四十条の七第二項及び第六十条の四から前条までの規定は前項の許可を受けた者（以下「電子店頭デリバティブ取引等許可業者」という。）の電子店頭デリバティブ取引…
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Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 29 and Article 58-2, with the permission of the Prime Minister, a foreign securities services provider may engage in the purchase and sale of securities and…
外国証券業者は、第二十九条及び第五十八条の二の規定にかかわらず、内閣総理大臣の許可を受けて、金融商品取引所における有価証券の売買及び市場デリバティブ取引（有価証券等清算取次ぎ（第二条第二十七項第一号に係るものに限る。以下この項において同じ。）の委託者として当該有価証券等清算取次ぎを行う者を代理してこれらの取引を行う場…
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Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 29, a person other than a bank, a cooperative financial institution, or a financial institution specified by Cabinet Order…
銀行、協同組織金融機関その他政令で定める金融機関以外の者（第一種金融商品取引業（第二十八条第一項に規定する第一種金融商品取引業をいう。以下この章において同じ。）を行う者及び登録金融機関の役員及び使用人を除く。）は、第二十九条の規定にかかわらず、内閣総理大臣の登録を受けて、金融商品仲介業を行うことができる。
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the performance of any of the following acts in connection with financial instruments intermediary services:
金融商品仲介業に関連し、次に掲げるいずれかの行為を行うこと。
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A corporation engaged in credit rating services (including an organization without legal personality whose representative or administrator has been designated; hereinafter the same applies in this…
信用格付業を行う法人（法人でない団体で代表者又は管理人の定めのあるものを含む。次条第一項第二号及び第六十六条の四十七を除き、以下この章において同じ。）は、内閣総理大臣の登録を受けることができる。
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A credit rating agency must not allow another person to engage in credit rating services using the name of that credit rating agency.
信用格付業者は、自己の名義をもつて、他人に信用格付業を行わせてはならない。
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A person other than a financial instruments business operator, etc. and authorized firm for on-exchange transactions…
金融商品取引業者等及び取引所取引許可業者（金融商品取引業若しくは登録金融機関業務又は取引所取引業務として高速取引行為を行い、又は行おうとする者に限る。）以外の者は、高速取引行為を行おうとするときは、内閣総理大臣の登録を受けなければならない。
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A high-speed trader must not allow another person to engage in high-speed trading using the name of the high-speed trader.
高速取引行為者は、自己の名義をもつて、他人に高速取引行為を行わせてはならない。
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A person that conducts investment management-related services contracting business may be registered by the Prime Minister.
投資運用関係業務受託業を行う者は、内閣総理大臣の登録を受けることができる。
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If an investment management-related services contractor seeks to change the particular set forth in Article 66-72, paragraph (1), item (vi), it must obtain the registration of a change made by the…
投資運用関係業務受託業者は、第六十六条の七十二第一項第六号に掲げる事項について変更をしようとするときは、内閣府令で定めるところにより、内閣総理大臣の行う変更登録を受けなければならない。
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An investment management-related services contractor must not allow another person to engage in the investment management-related services contracting business using the name of the investment…
投資運用関係業務受託業者は、自己の名義をもつて、他人に投資運用関係業務受託業を行わせてはならない。
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A financial instruments intermediary service provider must not allow another person to engage in financial instruments intermediary services using the name of the relevant financial instruments…
金融商品仲介業者は、自己の名義をもつて、他人に金融商品仲介業を行わせてはならない。
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With the exception of an authorized financial instruments firms Association, a person must not operate a financial instruments market unless it is licensed by the Prime Minister.
金融商品市場は、認可金融商品取引業協会を除き、内閣総理大臣の免許を受けた者でなければ、開設してはならない。
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The term "self-regulatory services" as used in the preceding paragraph means the following services conducted in respect of a financial instruments exchange:
前項の「自主規制業務」とは、金融商品取引所について行う次に掲げる業務をいう。
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「外国金融商品市場」
A market located in a foreign state that is similar to a financial instruments exchange market (取引所金融商品市場).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (8), item (iii), (b)
financial instruments intermediary servicemachine translation
「金融商品仲介業」
Business carried on, on entrustment by a financial instruments business operator (金融商品取引業者) carrying on Type I financial instruments business or investment management business (with some exceptions for small-amount electronic offerings, unlisted securities and qualified investors) or by a registered financial institution (登録金融機関), of any of these acts on its behalf: intermediating purchases and sales of securities; intermediating the entrustment of trades on a financial instruments exchange market or a foreign financial instruments market; handling public offerings, secondary distributions or private placements of securities; and intermediating investment advisory or discretionary investment contracts, subject to an exception for investment management business that paragraph sets.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (11)· applies throughout the law
financial instruments market
「金融商品市場」
A market for buying and selling securities or for market derivatives transactions (市場デリバティブ取引), other than one dealing only in commodity-related market derivatives transactions (商品関連市場デリバティブ取引).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (14)· applies throughout the law
incorporated financial instruments exchange
「株式会社金融商品取引所」
A stock company that operates a financial instruments exchange market.
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (18)
financial instruments obligation assumption servicemachine translation
「金融商品債務引受業」
Carrying on as a business taking on, by assumption, novation or other means, the obligations under subject transactions (対象取引) of financial instruments business operators, registered financial institutions or securities finance companies, with them as counterparties; subject transactions are purchases and sales of securities and derivatives transactions, other than those a Cabinet Order (政令) excludes, and transactions incidental or related to them that a Cabinet Order specifies.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (28)· applies throughout the law
credit rating services
「信用格付業」
Carrying on, as a business, the assignment of credit ratings (信用格付) and providing them or making them available for inspection, other than acts a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) specifies as posing little risk to investor protection given whom they are made to or how.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (35)· applies throughout the law
high-speed trading
「高速取引行為」
Buying and selling securities or conducting market derivatives transactions, entrusting either to another, or a similar act a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, where the decision to do it is made automatically by an electronic data processing system and the information needed to carry it out is sent to a financial instruments exchange or other recipient a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) specifies by a method that Order sets for shortening the time sending it would normally take, other than acts a Cabinet Order exempts as posing no risk to the protection of investors.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (41)· applies throughout the law
investment management-related services contracting businessmachine translation
「投資運用関係業務受託業」
Carrying on as a business, on entrustment by a person allowed by this Act to carry on investment management business, etc. (投資運用業等), any of the investment management-related services (投資運用関係業務) in Article 2, paragraph (43) for that person.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (44)· applies throughout the law
officer
「役員」
A director, accounting advisor, company auditor or executive officer, or a person equivalent to one, in this Act other than Articles 163 to 167.
Defined inArticle 21, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies from here on, except in Articles 163 to 167
registered financial institution businessmachine translation
「登録金融機関業務」
The business a registered financial institution (登録金融機関) carries on under its registration under Article 33-2.
Defined inArticle 33-3, paragraph (1), item (vi), (a)
self-regulatory services
「自主規制業務」
The business carried on for a financial instruments exchange of listing and delisting financial instruments, financial indices and options (other than business a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) excludes), examining whether members, etc. (会員等) comply with laws and regulations, dispositions under them, the articles of incorporation and other rules, and the principle of good faith in trading, and other business a Cabinet Office Order specifies as needed to keep trading on its market fair.
Defined inArticle 84, paragraph (2)
incorporated association-operated financial instruments exchangemachine translation
「会員金融商品取引所」
A financial instruments membership corporation (金融商品会員制法人) that operates a financial instruments exchange market (取引所金融商品市場).
Short name set inArticle 87-6, paragraph (1)
collaborating financial instruments obligation assumption servicesmachine translation
「連携金融商品債務引受業務」
Carrying on as a business an act specified by Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) by which a financial instruments clearing organization has a third party take on a clearing member's (清算参加者) obligations under a subject transaction (対象取引) other than those in Article 156-62, item (i), and itself takes on the obligations of that clearing member's counterparty; a clearing organization may do so, with the Prime Minister's authorization, under a contract with a collaborating clearing organization, etc. (連携清算機関等).
Defined inArticle 156-20-16, paragraph (1)
investment management business
「投資運用業」
Investment management business as defined in Article 28, paragraph (4): the part of financial instruments business (金融商品取引業) that consists in carrying on as a business the acts in Article 2, paragraph (8), items (xii), (xiv) and (xv) — managing money or other property, on investment decisions (投資判断) based on an analysis of the value, etc. of financial instruments, as an investment in securities or in rights under derivatives transactions, whether under a discretionary investment contract (投資一任契約) or an asset management contract with a registered investment corporation (登録投資法人), or for the holders of the rights items (xiv) and (xv) list who contributed it — including where a bank, a cooperative financial institution or another financial institution a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies carries them on.
Defined inArticle 197-3, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
company auditor
監査役
An officer of a stock company, elected by the shareholders meeting (Companies Act, Article 329, paragraph (1)), whose job is to audit how the directors carry out their duties and to write an audit report on it (Article 381, paragraph (1)). Not an outside accountant — that is the financial auditor (会計監査人) — and not a director: a company auditor may not also be a director or employee of the company or its subsidiaries (Article 335, paragraph (2)). The term normally runs to the annual shareholders meeting for the last business year ending within four years of election (Article 336, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 329, 335, 336, 381 as a reference.
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.
director
取締役
An officer of a stock company, elected by the shareholders meeting (Companies Act, Article 329, paragraph (1)). Every stock company has at least one (Article 326, paragraph (1)). Where there is no board of directors, the directors run the company's business unless the articles of incorporation say otherwise (Article 348, paragraph (1)), and each of them represents it unless the company has chosen representative directors (代表取締役) or others to do that (Article 349, paragraphs (1) and (3)). Where there is a board (取締役会, board of directors), the directors are its members, and the board decides the business and normally chooses the representative directors from among them (Article 362). The term normally runs to the annual shareholders meeting for the last business year ending within two years of election (Article 332, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 326, 329, 332, 348, 349, 362 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.
Prime Minister
内閣総理大臣
The head of the Cabinet. Designated by the Diet from among its own members, and appointed by the Emperor on that designation (Articles 67 and 6). The Prime Minister appoints and may dismiss the other Ministers of State at will, and a majority of them must be members of the Diet (Article 68). No Minister of State can be subjected to legal action while in office without the Prime Minister's consent (Article 75).
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 6, 67, 68, 75 and Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan as a reference.