The Minister for Foreign Affairs or a consular officer may choose not to issue an ordinary passport or add destinations to an ordinary passport, if the person who seeks to be issued an ordinary passport or have destinations added falls under any of the following items:
外務大臣又は領事官は、一般旅券の発給又は渡航先の追加を受けようとする者が次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、一般旅券の発給又は渡航先の追加をしないことができる。
a person who is not permitted to enter the country pursuant to the laws and regulations enforced in that country of destination;
渡航先に施行されている法規によりその国に入ることを認められない者
a person who is being prosecuted for a crime punishable by the death penalty or a life imprisonment, or imprisonment for a term of 2 years or more, or a person for whom the Minister for Foreign Affairs has been notified of the fact that an arrest warrant, writ of physical escort, detention warrant, or writ of confinement for expert examination has been issued on suspicion of committing those crimes, by a relevant organ;
死刑、無期若しくは長期二年以上の刑に当たる罪につき訴追されている者又はこれらの罪を犯した疑いにより逮捕状、勾引状、勾留状若しくは鑑定留置状が発せられている旨が関係機関から外務大臣に通報されている者
a person who has been sentenced to imprisonment or a heavier punishment and has not completed the sentence or to whom the sentence still applies;
拘禁刑以上の刑に処せられ、その執行を終わるまで又は執行を受けることがなくなるまでの者
a person who has been sentenced to a punishment pursuant to the provisions of Article 23;
第二十三条の規定により刑に処せられた者
a person who has been sentenced to a punishment pursuant to the provisions of Article 155, paragraph (1) (limited to the part related to item (i)) or Article 158 of the Penal Code (Act No. 45 of 1907) for forging a passport or a travel document, or for using a document forged as a passport or a travel document, or for attempting to commit such an offence;
旅券若しくは渡航書を偽造し、又は旅券若しくは渡航書として偽造された文書を行使し、若しくはその未遂罪を犯し、刑法（明治四十年法律第四十五号）第百五十五条第一項（第一号に係る部分に限る。）又は第百五十八条の規定により刑に処せられた者
among the repatriates prescribed in Article 1 of the Act on the Duties of Consular Officers Related to Repatriates In Need of State's Aid (Act No. 236 of 1953), those who have become subject to the measures referred to in Article 2, paragraph (1) of that Act or those who have received loans under the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1) or Article 4 of that Act and are likely to become a public charge when they travel abroad; or
国の援助等を必要とする帰国者に関する領事官の職務等に関する法律（昭和二十八年法律第二百三十六号）第一条に規定する帰国者で、同法第二条第一項の措置の対象となつたもの又は同法第三条第一項若しくは第四条の規定による貸付けを受けたもののうち、外国に渡航したときに公共の負担となるおそれがあるもの
in addition to the persons stated in the preceding items, a person for whom the Minister for Foreign Affairs has adequate grounds sufficient to find that they are likely to commit an act that would considerably, and, directly harm the interests or public security of Japan.
前各号に掲げる者を除くほか、外務大臣において、著しく、かつ、直接に日本国の利益又は公安を害する行為を行うおそれがあると認めるに足りる相当の理由がある者
When making the acknowledgment referred to in item (vii) of the preceding paragraph, the Minister for Foreign Affairs must deliberate with the Minister of Justice in advance.
外務大臣は、前項第七号の認定をしようとするときは、あらかじめ法務大臣と協議しなければならない。
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(Counterfeiting of Official Documents)
For the purpose of uttering, a person who commits any of the acts set forth in the following items is punished by imprisonment for 1 year or more and 10 years or less:
行使の目的で、次の各号に掲げるいずれかの行為をした者は、一年以上十年以下の拘禁刑に処する。
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the act of counterfeiting, using the seal or signature of a public office or a public employee (hereinafter referred to as a "seal or signature" in this Chapter, Article 165 and Article 167)…
公務所若しくは公務員の印章若しくは署名（以下この章、第百六十五条及び第百六十七条において「印章等」という。）を使用して公務所若しくは公務員の作成すべき文書若しくは図画（以下この章において「文書等」という。）を偽造し、又は偽造した公務所若しくは公務員の印章等を使用して公務所若しくは公務員の作成すべき文書等を偽造する行為
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A person, who utters a document or drawing or an electronic or magnetic record of a document or drawing prescribed for in the preceding four Articles, provides the electronic or magnetic record…
第百五十四条から前条までの文書等若しくは電磁的記録文書等を行使し、同条第一項の電磁的記録を公正証書の原本としての用に供し、又は同条第二項の電磁的記録を人の事務処理の用に供した者は、その文書等若しくは電磁的記録文書等を偽造し、若しくは変造し、虚偽の文書等若しくは電磁的記録文書等を作成し…
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a person who is not permitted to enter the country pursuant to the laws and regulations enforced in that country of destination;
渡航先に施行されている法規によりその国に入ることを認められない者
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a person who is being prosecuted for a crime punishable by the death penalty or a life imprisonment, or imprisonment for a term of 2 years or more, or a person for whom the Minister for Foreign…
死刑、無期若しくは長期二年以上の刑に当たる罪につき訴追されている者又はこれらの罪を犯した疑いにより逮捕状、勾引状、勾留状若しくは鑑定留置状が発せられている旨が関係機関から外務大臣に通報されている者
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a person who has been sentenced to imprisonment or a heavier punishment and has not completed the sentence or to whom the sentence still applies;
拘禁刑以上の刑に処せられ、その執行を終わるまで又は執行を受けることがなくなるまでの者
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a person who has been sentenced to a punishment pursuant to the provisions of Article 23;
第二十三条の規定により刑に処せられた者
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a person who has been sentenced to a punishment pursuant to the provisions of Article 155, paragraph (1) (limited to the part related to item (i)) or Article 158 of the Penal Code…
旅券若しくは渡航書を偽造し、又は旅券若しくは渡航書として偽造された文書を行使し、若しくはその未遂罪を犯し、刑法（明治四十年法律第四十五号）第百五十五条第一項（第一号に係る部分に限る。）又は第百五十八条の規定により刑に処せられた者
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among the repatriates prescribed in Article 1 of the Act on the Duties of Consular Officers Related to Repatriates In Need of State's Aid (Act No. 236 of 1953)…
国の援助等を必要とする帰国者に関する領事官の職務等に関する法律（昭和二十八年法律第二百三十六号）第一条に規定する帰国者で、同法第二条第一項の措置の対象となつたもの又は同法第三条第一項若しくは第四条の規定による貸付けを受けたもののうち、外国に渡航したときに公共の負担となるおそれがあるもの
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in addition to the persons stated in the preceding items, a person for whom the Minister for Foreign Affairs has adequate grounds sufficient to find that they are likely to commit an act that would…
前各号に掲げる者を除くほか、外務大臣において、著しく、かつ、直接に日本国の利益又は公安を害する行為を行うおそれがあると認めるに足りる相当の理由がある者
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A person who falls under any of the following items is punished by imprisonment for not more than five 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者は、五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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「一般旅券」
Any passport other than an official passport (公用旅券).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ii)· applies throughout the law
travel document
「渡航書」
A travel document issued in place of a passport under Article 19-3(1) to a Japanese national abroad who wishes to return to Japan and who has no passport and must return urgently with no time to obtain one, cannot be issued a passport, or has returned a passport on an order under Article 19(1).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (iv)· applies throughout the law
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.