{"topic_id":"jp_animal_welfare_act_full_penalties","category":"jp-animal-welfare","context":"---\ntopic_id: jp_animal_welfare_act_full_penalties\ncategory: jp-animal-welfare\ntitle: \"Japan Animal Welfare Act — Penalties (罰則, 第四十五・四十六・五十条)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Act on Welfare and Management of Animals, lawid 348AC1000000105, laws.e-gov.go.jp full text, pulled 2026-07-24 via Seoul relay Playwright\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/jp-animal-welfare/animal_welfare_act_full.txt\nsource_type: statute_text\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-24\ntokens_estimated: 120\nverification: C1_substring_match\nclaims: 3\n---\n\n# Japan Animal Welfare Act — Penalties (罰則, 第四十五・四十六・五十条)\n\nFirst-hand full-statute text (laws.e-gov.go.jp, pulled 2026-07-24 via Seoul relay Playwright). Each claim is the ORIGINAL JAPANESE sentence verbatim-substring-matched against `source_file`; English translation in parentheses.\n\n## Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)\n\n- `次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、六月以下の拘禁刑又は百万円以下の罰金に処する。`  (EN: Penalty: keeping a specific animal without permit etc. — up to 6 months imprisonment or a fine up to 1,000,000 JPY.)\n- `次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、百万円以下の罰金に処する。`  (EN: Penalty: operating a Type-1 business without registration, false registration, violating a business-suspension order, etc. — a fine up to 1,000,000 JPY.)\n- `愛護動物をみだりに殺し、又は傷つけた者は、五年以下の拘禁刑又は五百万円以下の罰金に処する。`  (EN: Penalty: killing or injuring a protected animal without due cause — up to 5 years imprisonment or a fine up to 5,000,000 JPY.)\n\nSource: `pdf-raw/jp-animal-welfare/animal_welfare_act_full.txt` — full text of the Act (laws.e-gov.go.jp), pulled 2026-07-24 via Seoul relay Playwright.\n","sources":[],"tokens_estimated":120,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}