If any of the following items applies, the person who has committed the violation is subject to punishment by imprisonment for not longer than one year, a fine of not more than one million yen, or both:

①A person that acts with the aim of paying or receiving the difference in quotations on a financial instruments exchange market (including financial indexes calculated based on prices or interest rates, etc. of financial instruments on a financial instruments exchange market) other than through a financial instruments exchange market, is subject to imprisonment for not more than one year, a fine of not more than one million yen, or both; provided, however, that this does not preclude the application of the provisions of Article 186 of the Penal Code.

②The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply to the following transactions:

①If the officer or official of a financial instruments business operator (or the domestic representative or officer stationed at a business office or office established in Japan, if the financial instruments business operator is a foreign corporation; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph); the officer or official of an authorized financial instruments firms association, certified financial instruments business association prescribed in Article 78, paragraph (2), or financial instruments exchange (including a provisional board member, provisional inspector, provisional director, provisional executive officer, or provisional company auditor); or the domestic representative or official of a foreign financial instruments exchange (if the foreign financial instruments exchange has a domestic office, this includes any officer stationed there) accepts a bribe in connection with that person's duties (in the case of the officer or official of a financial instruments business operator, limited to duties involved in the business of a financial instruments business operator is entrusted by an investor protection fund pursuant to the provisions of Article 79-50, paragraph (1)), or requests or promises to do so, that person is subject to imprisonment for not more than five years.

②In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, any bribe that is accepted is subject to confiscation. If all or part of a bribe cannot be confiscated, an equivalent value is to be collected.

③A person that provides the bribe referred to in paragraph (1) or that offers or promises to do so is subject to imprisonment for not more than three years or by a fine of not more than three million yen.

①The provisions regarding the crimes referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article also apply to a person that commits a crime referred to in that paragraph outside Japan.

②A crime referred to in paragraph (3) of the preceding Article is governed by the provisions of Article 2 of the Penal Code.

A person that violates the provisions of Article 72 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 79 or Article 79-14); Article 77-2, paragraph (7) or (8) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 77-3, paragraph (4), Article 78-7, Article 78-8, paragraph (4), or Article 79-13), Article 79-47, Article 87-8, Article 156-8, Article 156-20-7, or Article 156-70 is subject to imprisonment for not more than one year, or a fine of not more than 500 thousand yen.