Severe deprivation of physical liberty - crimes against humanity

Japan

Japan - Penal Code 1907 (2020) EN/Japanese

PART II CRIMES

Chapter XXXI Crimes of Unlawful Capture and Confinement

(Unlawful Capture and Confinement)
Article 220 A person who unlawfully captures or confines another person is punished by imprisonment for not less than 3 months but not more than 7 years.

(Unlawful Capture or Confinement Causing Death or Injury)
Article 221 A person who commits the crime prescribed under the preceding Article and thereby causes the death or injury of another person, is dealt with by the punishment for either the crimes of injury or the punishment prescribed in the preceding Article, whichever is severer.

Rome Statute

Article 7 Crimes against humanity

1. For the purpose of this Statute, ‘crime against humanity’ means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:

(e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;