Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Law. Copyright Roderick Seeman

Article 70 Any person who comes under any one of the following Items shall be liable to penal servitude not exceeding three (3) years, or a fine not exceeding one million (1,000,000) yen, or both. However, when three-times the amount of the subject matter of contravention exceeds one million (1,000,000) yen, the fine shall be up to that three-times amount :

(1) A person who carried out any transaction in contravention of Article 7, Paragraph 4;

(2) A person who carried out any transaction in contravention of Article 8;

(3) A person who carried out any transaction in contravention of an Order provided by Article 9, Paragraph 1;

(4) A person who dealt in foreign exchange business without obtaining authorization as required by Article 10, Paragraph 1;

(5) A person who violated the suspension or restriction imposed under Article 13 (including the mutatis mutandis application thereof as provided by Article 14, Paragraph 2);

(6) A person who dealt in money exchange business without obtaining an authorization as required by Article 14, Paragraph 1 (except for authorized foreign exchange banks);

(7) A person who made any payment or received any payment without obtaining a license as required by an Order provided by Article 16, Paragraph 1 or 2, or in contravention of Paragraph 3 thereof;

(8) A person who made any payment or received any payment through one of the special ways designated by an Order provided by Article 17, without obtaining a license as required by the same Article;

(9) A person who exported or imported any means of payment, securities, or precious metals without obtaining a license as required by an Order provided by Article 18, Paragraph 1 or 2;

(10) A person who waived or abandoned, either wholly or partly, any of his claimable rights against a non-resident without obtaining a license as required by an Order based on Article 19;

(11) A person who carried out any capital transaction without obtaining a license as required by Article 21, Paragraph 1;

(12) A person who carried out any capital transaction without obtaining a license as required by an Order based on Article 21, Paragraph 2;

(13) A person who carried out any capital transaction which is subject to Article 23, Paragraph 1, by giving no notice or a false notice in contravention of Article 22, Paragraph 1;

(14) A person who carried out capital transaction during the period provided by, and in contravention of, Article 23, Paragraph 1 or 3 (excluding a person who falls under Item (19));

(15) A person who carried out any capital transaction in contravention of Article 23, Paragraph 5 (including its mutatis mutandis application in Article 24, Paragraph 4);

(16) A person who carried out any capital transaction in contravention of a directive of alteration or suspension provided under Article 23, Paragraph 7 (including its mutatis mutandis application in Article 24, Paragraph 4);

(17) A person who carried out any capital transaction without obtaining a license as required by an Order based on Article 24, Paragraph 1;

(18) A person who carried out any capital transaction which is subject to Article 24, Paragraph 3, by giving no notice or a false notice in contravention of Paragraph 2 of the same Article;

(19) A person who carried out any capital transaction in violation of the provisions of Article 24, Paragraph 3 or the provisions of Article 23, Paragraph 3, which apply mutatis mutandis in Article 24, Paragraph 4, during the period provided by those provisions.

(19-2) A person who carried out a transaction which has as its objective the provision of designated technology, but who has not received the license provided for in the Order based on the provisions of Article 25-2, Paragraph 2.

(20) A party who, without receiving the license based on the provisions of Article 25, Paragraph 3, carried out the transaction covered by the provisions of the Order based on the provisions of the same Article.

(20-2) A party who in violation of the ban on transactions which have as their objective the provision of technology or the export of goods, based on the provisions of Article 25-2, Paragraph 1 or Paragraph 3, carried out the transactions or made the export.

(20-3) A party who in violation of the ban on transactions involving trading in goods, or export of goods, based on the provisions of Article 25-2, Paragraph 2 and carried out the transactions or made the export.

(21) A person who carried out any direct domestic investment, etc., by giving no notice or a false notice in contravention of Article 27, Paragraph 1 (including a person who is deemed as a foreign investor under the provisions of Article 27-2);

(22) A person who carried out any direct domestic investment, etc., in contravention of Article 27, Paragraph 2, and during the period provided by the same paragraph (including the extended period extended under Article 27, Paragraph 3 or 6 or the shortened period shortened under the provisions of Paragraph 4 of the same Article), (including a person who is deemed as a foreign investor under Article 27-2);

(23) A person who carried out any direct domestic investment, etc., in contravention of Article 27, paragraph 8 (including a person who is deemed as a foreign investor under Article 27-2);

(24) A person who carried out any direct domestic investment, etc., in contravention of a directive of alteration or suspension based on the provisions of under Article 27, Paragraph 10 (including a person who is deemed as a foreign investor under Article 26, Paragraph 2);

(25) A person who carried out any conclusion of an agreement for importation of technology, etc but by giving no notice or a false notice in contravention of Article 30, Paragraph 1;

(26) A person who carried out any conclusion of an agreement for importation of technology, etc in contravention of Article 30, Paragraph 2 during the period provided in the same Article (including the extended period extended under Article 30, Paragraph 3 or 6 or the shortened period shortened under the provisions of Paragraph 4 of the same Article period in the event the period is extended under Article 30, Paragraph 1 or 3);

(27) A person who carried out any conclusion, of an agreement for importation of technology, etc in contravention of the provisions of Article 27, Paragraph 8, which apply mutatis mutandis in Article 30, Paragraph 4;

(28) A person who carried out any conclusion of an agreement for importation of technology, etc. in contravention of a directive of alteration or suspension based on Article 27, Paragraph 10, which apply mutatis mutandis in Article 30, Paragraph 7;

(28-2) A person who, without receiving the license provided for in the Order based on the provisions of Article 48, Paragraph 2, exports goods.

(29) A person who carried out any exportation of goods without obtaining license provided for by an Order based on Article 48, Paragraph 3;

(30) A person who made any shipment of goods in contravention of an Order based on Article 51;

(31) A person made any importation of goods without obtaining approval provided for by Order based on Article 52; and

(31-2) A person who, in violation of the ban, provided by provisions of Article 53, Paragraph 1, against the export of goods or carrying out transactions which have as their objective the provision designated technology, makes such exports or carries out such transactions;

(32) A person who made any exportation or importation of goods in contravention of the prohibition of such exports or imports imposed under Article 53, Paragraph 2.