# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百九十八条の四 (Article 198-4)
- 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: 第百九十八条の四 (Article 198-4) — address `art-198-4`
- 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-198-4
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-198-4
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### 第百九十八条の四
art-198-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-198-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-198-4
**第一項** 第百六条の十第一項又は第三項の規定に違反したときは、当該違反行為をした者は、二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。
art-198-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-198-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-198-4/par-1
If a person violates the provisions of Article 106-10, paragraph (1) or (3), the person who has committed the violation is subject to punishment by imprisonment for not more than two years, a fine of not more than three million yen, or both.
machine translation, not official
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## Cites
- art-198-4/par-1: 第百六条の十第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第百六条の十第一項 (Article 106-10, paragraph (1)), art-106-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-106-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-106-10/par-1
- art-198-4/par-1: 第三項 → 金融商品取引法 第百六条の十第三項 (Article 106-10, paragraph (3)), art-106-10/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-106-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-106-10/par-3
## Cited by
1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.
- 金融商品取引法 第二百七条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-207/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-207/par-1/item-3
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## 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch financial-instruments-and-exchange-act-20261023T033157-022, translated 2026-10-23
- This site's parser, version 212 — 金融商品取引法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-22