Section 1 Common Provisions
第一節 通則
第九条
In this Chapter, "covered electronic or magnetic record" means any of the following:
この章において「対象電磁的記録」とは、次に掲げるものをいう。
an electronic or magnetic record recording images of any of the following covered sexual poses, etc. or sexual poses, etc.;
the covered sexual poses, etc. relating to an electronic or magnetic record generated by an act listed in Article 2, paragraph (1), items (i) to (iii);
第二条第一項第一号から第三号までに掲げる行為により生成された電磁的記録に係る対象性的姿態等
the covered sexual poses, etc. relating to an electronic or magnetic record generated by the act of recording images that were subject to image transmission by an act listed in Article 5, paragraph (1), items (i) to (iii);
第五条第一項第一号から第三号までに掲げる行為により影像送信をされた影像を記録する行為により生成された電磁的記録に係る対象性的姿態等
the sexual poses, etc. relating to an electronic or magnetic record generated by the act listed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (iv);
the sexual poses, etc. relating to an electronic or magnetic record generated by the act of recording images that were subject to image transmission by the act listed in Article 5, paragraph (1), item (iv);
an electronic or magnetic record relating to a private sexual image record;
an electronic or magnetic record prescribed in Article 3-2 of the Act on Regulation and Punishment of Acts Relating to Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, and the Protection of Children (Act No. 52 of 1999).
児童買春、児童ポルノに係る行為等の規制及び処罰並びに児童の保護等に関する法律(平成十一年法律第五十二号)第三条の二に規定する電磁的記録
In this Chapter, "photographed person, etc." means, according to the categories of what is listed in the following items, the person specified in the relevant item or that person's legal representative.
この章において「撮影対象者等」とは、次の各号に掲げるものの区分に応じ、当該各号に定める者又はその法定代理人をいう。
an electronic or magnetic record listed in item (i) of the preceding paragraph or an object listed in item (i), (a) of paragraph (1) of the following Article: a person who was the target of an act listed in any item of Article 2, paragraph (1), or a person to whom the covered sexual poses, etc. that are the content of images that were subject to image transmission by an act listed in any item of Article 5, paragraph (1) relate (in the case of images that were subject to image transmission by the act listed in item (iv) of that paragraph, the sexual poses, etc.);
an electronic or magnetic record listed in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph or an object listed in item (i), (b) of paragraph (1) of the following Article: a photographed person prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Prevention of Damage Caused by the Provision, etc. of Private Sexual Image Records;
an electronic or magnetic record listed in item (iii) of the preceding paragraph or an object listed in item (i), (c) of paragraph (1) of the following Article: the child whose pose is depicted in that electronic or magnetic record or that object.
In this Chapter, "covered pose, etc." means any of the following:
この章において「対象姿態等」とは、次に掲げるものをいう。
the covered sexual poses, etc. that were the target of an act listed in Article 2, paragraph (1), items (i) to (iii); the covered sexual poses, etc. that are the content of images that were subject to image transmission by an act listed in Article 5, paragraph (1), items (i) to (iii); the sexual poses, etc. that were the target of the act listed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (iv); or the sexual poses, etc. that are the content of images that were subject to image transmission by the act listed in Article 5, paragraph (1), item (iv);
第二条第一項第一号から第三号までに掲げる行為の対象とされた対象性的姿態等、第五条第一項第一号から第三号までに掲げる行為により影像送信をされた影像の内容である対象性的姿態等、第二条第一項第四号に掲げる行為の対象とされた性的姿態等又は第五条第一項第四号に掲げる行為により影像送信をされた影像の内容である性的姿態等
the poses of persons listed in the items of Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Prevention of Damage Caused by the Provision, etc. of Private Sexual Image Records that were photographed in the images prescribed in that paragraph;
私事性的画像記録の提供等による被害の防止に関する法律第二条第一項に規定する画像に撮影された同項各号に掲げる人の姿態
the poses of children listed in the items of Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Act on Regulation and Punishment of Acts Relating to Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, and the Protection of Children.
児童買春、児童ポルノに係る行為等の規制及び処罰並びに児童の保護等に関する法律第二条第三項各号に掲げる児童の姿態
Section 2 Measures for Erasure, etc.
第二節 消去等の措置
第十条(押収物に記録された電磁的記録の消去及び押収物の廃棄)
A public prosecutor may, in the case where a seized article stored by the public prosecutor is an object listed in item (i), and that seized article records a covered electronic or magnetic record, take the measures listed in item (ii) in accordance with the procedures provided for in the following Section.
the following objects:
次に掲げる物
an object produced by an act listed in any item of Article 2, paragraph (1), or an object produced by the act of recording images that were subject to image transmission by an act listed in any item of Article 5, paragraph (1), or a copy of any of these;
an object on which is recorded a private sexual image record that constituted, or was used in, an act prescribed in Article 3, paragraphs (1) to (3) of the Act on the Prevention of Damage Caused by the Provision, etc. of Private Sexual Image Records, or a private sexual image record item that constituted, or was used in, that act, or a copy of any of these;
an object prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Act on Regulation and Punishment of Acts Relating to Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, and the Protection of Children.
児童買春、児童ポルノに係る行為等の規制及び処罰並びに児童の保護等に関する法律第二条第三項に規定する物
the following measures:
次に掲げる措置
to erase all covered electronic or magnetic records recorded on that seized article;
当該押収物に記録されている対象電磁的記録を全て消去すること。
if it is found difficult to take the measure listed in (a) because the electronic or magnetic records recorded on that seized article are voluminous or for other reasons, so that the content of all of the electronic or magnetic records recorded on that seized article cannot be confirmed, to erase all of the electronic or magnetic records recorded on that seized article;
当該押収物に記録されている電磁的記録が大量であることその他の事由により当該押収物に記録されている全ての電磁的記録の内容を確認することができないため、イに掲げる措置をとることが困難であると認めるときは、当該押収物に記録されている電磁的記録を全て消去すること。
if it is found difficult to take the measures listed in (a) and (b) for technical or other reasons, to dispose of that seized article.
技術的理由その他の事由により、イ及びロに掲げる措置をとることが困難であると認めるときは、当該押収物を廃棄すること。
A public prosecutor may, in the case where a seized article stored by the public prosecutor that is listed in item (i) of the preceding paragraph does not record a covered electronic or magnetic record, dispose of that seized article in accordance with the procedures provided for in the following Section.
Article 11Order to Erase Covered Electronic or Magnetic Records
第十一条(対象電磁的記録の消去命令)
In the case prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, if the covered electronic or magnetic record referred to in that paragraph has been copied pursuant to Article 218, paragraph (2) or Article 509, paragraph (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Act No. 131 of 1948), and the covered electronic or magnetic record that was the subject of that copying is recorded in a recording medium connected by the telecommunications line prescribed in those paragraphs, a public prosecutor may, in accordance with the procedures provided for in the following Section, order the person who has the authority to erase that covered electronic or magnetic record on the computer referred to in those paragraphs to erase the following covered electronic or magnetic records, as provided by Ministry of Justice Order:
the covered electronic or magnetic record that was the subject of that copying;
当該複写の対象とされた対象電磁的記録
a covered electronic or magnetic record copied from the covered electronic or magnetic record listed in the preceding item, which was copied by that person and is recorded in that recording medium.
Article 11-2Decision Not to Permit Copying of Covered Electronic or Magnetic Records
第十一条の二(対象電磁的記録の複写不許可決定)
A public prosecutor may, if an electronic or magnetic record in custody (meaning an electronic or magnetic record that has been transferred, by an order to provide electronic or magnetic records under Article 218, paragraph (1) or Article 509, paragraph (1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (limited to an order for provision by the method listed in Article 102-2, paragraph (1), item (i), (b) of that Code (limited to a method that causes electronic or magnetic records to be transferred to a recording medium); hereinafter in this Article and Article 17, paragraph (1), item (iv) simply referred to as an "order to provide electronic or magnetic records"), to a recording medium under the control of a public prosecutor, a public prosecutor's assistant officer or a judicial police official, and that is stored by a public prosecutor; the same applies hereinafter in this Article and Article 12-2) falls under an electronic or magnetic record listed in item (i), take the measure listed in item (ii) in accordance with the procedures provided for in the following Section.
検察官は、保管電磁的記録(刑事訴訟法第二百十八条第一項又は第五百九条第一項の規定による電磁的記録提供命令(同法第百二条の二第一項第一号ロに掲げる方法(電磁的記録を記録媒体に移転させるものに限る。)による提供を命ずるものに限る。以下この条及び第十七条第一項第四号において単に「電磁的記録提供命令」という。)により検察官、検察事務官又は司法警察職員の管理に係る記録媒体に移転された電磁的記録であって検察官が保管しているものをいう。以下この条及び第十二条の二において同じ。)が第一号に掲げる電磁的記録に該当するときは、次節に定める手続に従い、第二号に掲げる措置をとることができる。
the following electronic or magnetic records:
次に掲げる電磁的記録
a private sexual image record that constituted, or was used in, an act prescribed in Article 3, paragraphs (1) to (3) of the Act on the Prevention of Damage Caused by the Provision, etc. of Private Sexual Image Records, or a private sexual image record recorded on a private sexual image record item that constituted, or was used in, that act, or an electronic or magnetic record copied from any of these;
to make a decision, with respect to the following electronic or magnetic records, not to permit copying under Article 123-2, paragraph (1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 222, paragraph (1) or Article 513, paragraph (6) of that Code, notwithstanding that paragraph:
次に掲げる電磁的記録について、刑事訴訟法第二百二十二条第一項又は第五百十三条第六項において準用する同法第百二十三条の二第一項の規定にかかわらず、同項の規定による複写を許さないこととする決定をすること。
in the case where another electronic or magnetic record provided pursuant to the order to provide electronic or magnetic records relating to that electronic or magnetic record in custody (referred to as the "other electronic or magnetic record" in (c)) is a covered electronic or magnetic record, that covered electronic or magnetic record;
in the case where it is found difficult to make the decision prescribed in this item (limited to the part relating to (b)) because the other electronic or magnetic records are voluminous or for other reasons, so that the content of all of the other electronic or magnetic records cannot be confirmed, those other electronic or magnetic records.
Section 3 Procedures for Erasure, etc.
第三節 消去等の手続
Article 12Retention, etc. for Measures for Erasure, etc.
第十二条(消去等措置のための領置等)
If a public prosecutor considers that a seized article stored by the public prosecutor falls under an object listed in Article 10, paragraph (1), item (i), and takes a measure under that Article with respect to that seized article (hereinafter referred to as a "measure for erasure, etc."), the public prosecutor is to release the seizure under the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure and retain it. In this case, that seized article need not be returned under the provisions of that Code (including delivering a recording medium or having an electronic or magnetic record copied pursuant to Article 123, paragraph (3) of that Code as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 222, paragraph (1) of that Code, or Article 123, paragraph (3) of that Code as applied mutatis mutandis with the changes in the terms read in Article 513, paragraph (1) of that Code).
第十二条の二
If a public prosecutor considers that an electronic or magnetic record in custody falls under an electronic or magnetic record listed in Article 11-2, item (i), and makes the decision prescribed in item (ii) of that Article (hereinafter referred to as a "decision not to permit copying"), the public prosecutor is to provisionally make a decision not to permit copying of that electronic or magnetic record in custody and the other electronic or magnetic record prescribed in item (ii), (b) of that Article (hereinafter referred to as "electronic or magnetic record in custody, etc."). In this case, the electronic or magnetic record in custody, etc. need not be copied pursuant to Article 123-2, paragraph (1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 222, paragraph (1) or Article 513, paragraph (6) of that Code.