Act on the Salaries of Public Prosecutors
Article 1  (1) Article 1 (1) With regard to the salary of public prosecutors, except as provided for by the Public Prosecutor's Office Act (Act No. 61 of 1947) and this Act, the salary of a prosecutor general, deputy prosecutor general, and a superintending prosecutor is in accordance with the examples of persons set forth in Article 1, items (i) through (xlii) of the Act on Remuneration of Government Officials with Special Capacity (Act No. 252 of 1949); the salary of public prosecutors who receive a salary listed in items (i) through (viii) and an assistant public prosecutor who receives a monthly salary provided for in Article 9 or a salary listed in item (i) or (ii) is in accordance with the example of official subject to the designated job salary schedule under the Act on Remuneration of Officials in the Regular Service Category (Act No. 95 of 1950); and the salary of any other public prosecutors is in accordance with the example of general officers; provided, however, that special adjustment of salary, overtime pay, holiday pay, night shift allowance, and night and day shift allowance are not paid.
(2) A deputy prosecutor general and a superintending prosecutor is paid unaccompanied transfer allowance in the same manner as those of general civil servants.
(3) A superintending prosecutor working in cold areas is paid cold area allowance in the same manner as a general government official.
Article 2  The monthly salary of a public prosecutor is to be in accordance with the attached table.
Article 3  (1) (2) The Minister of Justice establishes the necessary rules for starting salaries, salary increases and other particulars concerning the salaries of public prosecutors, and in accordance with these, determines the salaries to be received by each public prosecutor.
(2) The rules provided for in the preceding paragraph is established by the Minister of Justice in consultation with the Prime Minister.
Article 4  A public prosecutor who has been ordered to wait for a vacancy pursuant to the provisions of Article 24 of the Public Prosecutor's Office Act is to continue to receive dependents allowance, area allowance, a wide-area transfer allowance, housing allowance, and an end-of-year allowance and a cold area allowance.
Supplementary Provisions  [Extract]
Article 9  Until otherwise provided for by law, the monthly salary of an assistant public prosecutor may be set at 634,000 yen, limited to special cases, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 2.
Appended Table (Re: Art. 2)
|Classification|Monthly salary|
|Prosecutor General|1,466,000 yen|
|Deputy Prosecutor General|1,199,000 yen|
|Superintending Prosecutor of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office|1,302,000 yen|
|Other superintending prosecutors|1,199,000 yen|
|Public prosecutors|Category 1|1,175,000 yen|
||Category 2|1,035,000 yen|
||Category 3|965,000 yen|
||Category 4|818,000 yen|
||Category 5|706,000 yen|
||Category 6|634,000 yen|
||Category 7|574,000 yen|
||Category 8|516,000 yen|
||Category 9|421,500 yen|
||Category 10|387,800 yen|
||Category 11|364,900 yen|
||Category 12|341,600 yen|
||Category 13|319,800 yen|
||Category 14|304,700 yen|
||Category 15|287,500 yen|
||Category 16|278,000 yen|
||Category 17|258,000 yen|
||Category 18|249,200 yen|
||Category 19|243,400 yen|
||Category 20|237,700 yen|
|Assistant public prosecutors|Category 1|574,000 yen|
||Category 2|516,000 yen|
||Category 3|438,900 yen|
||Category 4|421,500 yen|
||Category 5|387,800 yen|
||Category 6|364,900 yen|
||Category 7|341,600 yen|
||Category 8|319,800 yen|
||Category 9|304,700 yen|
||Category 10|287,500 yen|
||Category 11|278,000 yen|
||Category 12|258,000 yen|
||Category 13|249,200 yen|
||Category 14|243,400 yen|
||Category 15|237,700 yen|
||Category 16|226,500 yen|
||Category 17|218,800 yen|