# 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 / Act on the Punishment of Acts of Photographing Sexual Poses, etc. and the Erasure, etc. of Electronic or Magnetic Records of Images of Sexual Poses Recorded on Seized Articles — 第二十一条 (Article 21) - Law: 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 (Act on the Punishment of Acts of Photographing Sexual Poses, etc. and the Erasure, etc. of Electronic or Magnetic Records of Images of Sexual Poses Recorded on Seized Articles), 令和五年法律第六十七号 - English title "Act on the Punishment of Acts of Photographing Sexual Poses, etc. and the Erasure, etc. of Electronic or Magnetic Records of Images of Sexual Poses Recorded on Seized Articles": claude-opus-5-5 - 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: 第二十一条 (Article 21)（権利者を知ることができない場合の公告） — address `art-21` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sexual-image-filming-act/art-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000067/art-21 - 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. --- ### 第二十一条（権利者を知ることができない場合の公告） — Public Notice Where Right Holders Cannot Be Known caption: machine translation, not official art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sexual-image-filming-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000067/art-21 **第一項** 検察官は、第十七条第一項第一号又は第二号に定める者を知ることができないため、消去等決定をすることができないときは、その旨及び六月が経過してもこれらの者が判明しないときは消去等措置を実施することを政令で定める方法によって公告しなければならない。 art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sexual-image-filming-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000067/art-21/par-1 When a public prosecutor cannot make a decision on erasure, etc. because the public prosecutor is unable to know the person specified in Article 17, paragraph (1), item (i) or (ii), the public prosecutor must give public notice, by the method specified by Cabinet Order, of that fact and that the measure for erasure, etc. will be implemented if those persons do not become known even after six months have elapsed. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-21/par-1: 第十七条第一項第一号 → 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 第十七条第一項第一号 (Article 17, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-17/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sexual-image-filming-act/art-17/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000067/art-17/par-1/item-1 - art-21/par-1: 第二号 → 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 第十七条第一項第二号 (Article 17, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-17/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sexual-image-filming-act/art-17/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000067/art-17/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 第二十三条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sexual-image-filming-act/art-23/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000067/art-23/par-1/item-5 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — English titles of cited laws, written for this site, written 2026-09-29 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/505AC0000000067/20260521_507AC0000000039), retrieved 2026-10-11 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sexual-image-filming-act-20261011T094824-005, translated 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 189 — 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11