# 職業安定法 / Employment Security Act — 第六十三条 (Article 63)

- Law: 職業安定法 (Employment Security Act), 昭和二十二年法律第百四十一号
- English title "Employment Security Act": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第六十三条 (Article 63) — address `art-63`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-63
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-63
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### 第六十三条
<sup>art-63 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-63 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-63</sup>

**第一項**  次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、その違反行為をした者は、一年以上十年以下の拘禁刑又は二十万円以上三百万円以下の罰金に処する。
<sup>art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-63/par-1</sup>
If a person falls under any of the following items, the person who has committed the violation will be subjected to imprisonment for a period of not less than one year and not more than 10 years, or to a fine of not less than 200,000 yen and not more than 3,000,000 yen:
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **一**  暴行、脅迫、監禁その他精神又は身体の自由を不当に拘束する手段によつて、職業紹介、労働者の募集若しくは労働者の供給を行い、又はこれらに従事したとき。
  <sup>art-63/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-63/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-63/par-1/item-1</sup>
  if a person has conducted or engaged in employment placement, recruitment of workers, or worker supply through means of assault, intimidation, unlawful confinement, or any other method unfairly restricting person's mental or physical freedom; or
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **二**  公衆衛生又は公衆道徳上有害な業務に就かせる目的で、職業紹介、労働者の募集、募集情報等提供若しくは労働者の供給を行い、又はこれらに従事したとき。
  <sup>art-63/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-63/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-63/par-1/item-2</sup>
  if a person has conducted or engaged in employment placement, recruitment of workers, acts of providing recruitment/candidate information, or supplying workers with the intention of making them work in a job that is harmful to public health or public morals.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令 第五条第一項第三号（法第十九条の二十六第一項第二号の出入国又は労働に関する法律の規定であって政令で定めるもの） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/art-5/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/410CO0000000178/art-5/par-1/item-3
- 職業安定法 第六十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-67/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 職業安定法 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000141/20260401_506AC0000000050), retrieved 2026-10-17
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employment Security Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4627/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employment-security-act-20261017T220554-001, translated 2026-10-18
- This site's parser, version 209 — 職業安定法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17
