If the defendant has been acquitted or barred further prosecution in cases where prosecution arose from a criminal complaint, accusation or claim, and if there was intent or gross negligence on the part of the person filing the criminal complaint, accusation or claim, the court may have said person bear court costs.
告訴、告発又は請求により公訴の提起があつた事件について被告人が無罪又は免訴の裁判を受けた場合において、告訴人、告発人又は請求人に故意又は重大な過失があつたときは、その者に訴訟費用を負担させることができる。
The same applies as in the preceding paragraph if prosecution was not instituted with regard to cases where there was a criminal complaint, accusation or claim, and if there was also intent or gross negligence on the part of the person filing the criminal complaint, accusation or claim.
告訴、告発又は請求があつた事件について公訴が提起されなかつた場合において、告訴人、告発人又は請求人に故意又は重大な過失があつたときも、前項と同様とする。
complaint
告訴
A crime's victim telling a public prosecutor or a judicial police officer (司法警察員) of the crime and asking that the offender be punished; the victim may file one (Code of Criminal Procedure, Articles 230 and 241, paragraph (1)). The victim's legal representative may also file one, and if the victim has died, their spouse, lineal relatives or siblings, though not against the victim's clearly stated wishes (Article 231). For some crimes — among them defamation and insult, and negligent injury — a prosecution cannot be brought without a complaint (Penal Code, Articles 209, paragraph (2), and 232, paragraph (1)); for those, a complaint must as a rule be filed within six months of learning who the offender is, though not one a foreign state's representative or a foreign envoy files over defamation or insult (Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 235), and it may be withdrawn until a prosecution is brought, but not filed again (Article 237).
Written by AI using Code of Criminal Procedure, Arts. 230, 231, 235, 237, 241 and Penal Code, Arts. 209, 232 as a reference.