• The Immigration Act is the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act

· The Investment Deposit and Interest Rate Act is the Act Regulating the Receipt of Contributions, Receipt of Deposits and Interest Rates.

· The Amusement Business Act is the Act on Control and Improvement of Amusement Businesses, etc.

The Worker Dispatching Act is the Act on Securing the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatch Business and Improvement of Working Conditions for Dispatched Workers.

· The Vehicle Recycling Law is the Law on Recycling of End-of-Life Vehicles.

Note 2: "Violation of the Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds" includes violation of the Customer Identification Act.

The following describes each type of the violation.

The number of fraud-related cases (fraud, computer fraud and violations of the Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds, the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, and the Mobile Phone Improper Use Prevention Act) totaled 714, the largest number that comprises 80.6% of all cases. Arrests have been made for the fraud or the transfer of savings passbooks, as well as on fraud cases using internet auctions, public assistance fraud committed by Boryokudan members, and fraud committed on the pretext of purchasing unlisted stocks, among other cases.

○Illegal stay offenses (violations of the Immigration Act) totaled 106. These included foreign nationals who had stayed in Japan beyond the period of stay authorized or engaged in activities other than those stipulated in their visa status.

○Drug crimes (violation of the Stimulants Control Act) totaled 16. Arrests were made for the possession and/or smuggling of stimulants.

○Forgery-related cases (forgery and/or use of private document, use of forged official document, making false entries in the original of notarized deeds, and use of such documents, false entries in the original of an electromagnetic notarized deed and use of such documents, sharing of unauthorized creation of electromagnetic records of payment cards, and Passport Law violations) totaled 13. Arrests were made on fraudulent commercial registrations and on sham marriages.

☐ Permission and authorization related cases (Amusement Business Act, Secondhand Articles Dealer Act) totaled 7. Arrests were made on proprietors of sex parlors in prohibited zones, in violation of the Amusement Business Act, and on unauthorized dealings in secondhand goods, in violation of the Secondhand Articles Dealer Act.

The number of black market finance cases (violation of the Money Lending Business Act and the Investment Deposit and Interest Rate Act) was 6, which included arrests for unregistered business operation and high-interest lending in violation of the Money Lending Business Act and the Investment Deposit and Interest Rate Act.

○Three cases were related to the Construction Act (violation of the Worker Dispatching Act and the Construction Industry Act). Arrests were made for making workers engage in a construction project in which the assignment of dispatched workers was prohibited, thereby violating the Worker Dispatching Act, and were made getting permission with fraud, thereby violating the Construction Industry Act.

Offences regarding intellectual property rights (violations of the Trademark Act, the Copyright Act, and the Unfair Competition Prevention Act) totaled 3. Arrests were made on the sale of counterfeit brands in violation of the Trademark Act, on the sale of unauthorized character merchandise in violation of the Copyright Act, and on falsified