# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百五十八条 (Article 158) - Law: 金融商品取引法 (Financial Instruments and Exchange Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二十五号 - English title "Financial Instruments and Exchange 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: 第百五十八条 (Article 158)（風説の流布、偽計、暴行又は脅迫の禁止） — address `art-158` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-158 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-158 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百五十八条（風説の流布、偽計、暴行又は脅迫の禁止） — (Prohibition on the Spreading of Rumors, the Use of Fraudulent Means, and Assault and Intimidation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-158 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-158 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-158 **第一項** 何人も、有価証券の募集、売出し若しくは売買その他の取引若しくはデリバティブ取引等のため、又は有価証券等（有価証券若しくはオプション又はデリバティブ取引に係る金融商品（有価証券を除く。）若しくは金融指標をいう。第百六十八条第一項、第百七十三条第一項及び第百九十七条第二項第一号において同じ。）の相場の変動を図る目的をもつて、風説を流布し、偽計を用い、又は暴行若しくは脅迫をしてはならない。 art-158/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-158/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-158/par-1 It is prohibited for any person to spread rumors, to use fraudulent means, or to commit assault or use intimidation for the purpose of carrying out a public offering, secondary distribution, purchase and sale or other transaction of securities, or a derivatives transaction, etc. or for the purpose of causing a fluctuation in the market price of a security, etc. (meaning a security, an option, or a financial instrument (other than a security) or financial index that is connected with a derivatives transaction; the same applies in Article 168, paragraph (1), Article 173, paragraph (1) and Article 197, paragraph (2), item (i)). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-158/par-1: 第百六十八条第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第百六十八条第一項 (Article 168, paragraph (1)), art-168/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-168/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-168/par-1 - art-158/par-1: 第百七十三条第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第百七十三条第一項 (Article 173, paragraph (1)), art-173/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-173/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-173/par-1 - art-158/par-1: 第百九十七条第二項第一号 → 金融商品取引法 第百九十七条第二項第一号 (Article 197, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-197/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-197/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-197/par-2/item-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第百七十三条第一項（風説の流布等により有価証券等の価格に影響を与えた者に対する課徴金納付命令） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-173/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-173/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百八十五条の二十三第二項（風説の流布、偽計、暴行又は脅迫の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-185-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-185-23/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十七条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-197/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-197/par-1/item-5 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十七条の二第一項第十三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-197-2/par-1/item-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-197-2/par-1/item-13 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 金融商品取引法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000025/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-10-22 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4633/tb), retrieved 2026-10-22 - This site's parser, version 212 — 金融商品取引法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-22