Japan
Practice Relating to Rule 39. Use of Cultural Property for Military Purposes
Japan’s Law concerning the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (2007) states:
In a situation of armed conflict, a person who uses, without legitimate reason, a cultural property under enhanced protection or its surroundings for combat or for support activities of combat, and puts a cultural property under enhanced protection in danger of damage by a combat activity of the adversary in an armed conflict, shall be sentenced to less than three years’ imprisonment with hard labour.