Crime of creating a false private document

Japanese: 虚偽私文書作成罪 - きょぎしぶんしょさくせいざい
Crime of creating a false private document

...This is because, while fraud is intended to protect property, forgery is intended to protect the public's trust in documents. The Japanese Criminal Code provides for the following crimes of forgery: (1) forgery of imperial edicts (Article 154), (2) forgery of public documents (Article 155), (3) forgery of private documents (Article 159), (4) making false public documents (Article 156), (5) making false private documents (Article 160), and (6) making false entries in notarial deeds (Article 157). In recent years, there has been a growing demand that the public's trust in electromagnetic records (Article 7-2) used for information processing by electronic information processing systems (computer systems) should be protected in the same way as documents, and so the Criminal Code was partially revised in 1987. ...

*Some of the terminology used in relation to the crime of creating a false private document is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…なぜならば,詐欺罪が財産を保護の対象としているのに対して,文書偽造罪は文書に対する社会一般の信頼を保護するものだからである。 日本の刑法は文書偽造罪として,(1)詔書偽造罪(154条),(2)公文書偽造罪(155条),(3)私文書偽造罪(159条),(4)虚偽公文書作成罪(156条),(5)虚偽私文書作成罪(160条),(6)公正証書等不実記載罪(157条)を規定している。近時,電子的情報処理組織(コンピューター・システム)による情報処理の用に供される電磁的記録(7条の2)に対する社会一般の信頼も文書に対するそれと同じように保護されるべきであるとする要請が強くなったため,1987年に刑法の一部改正がなされた。…

※「虚偽私文書作成罪」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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