Article 301-2

①With regard to the following cases, when a public prosecutor requests the examination of a document that may be used as evidence pursuant to the provisions of Article 322, paragraph (1), has been prepared in conducting an interrogation pursuant to the provisions of Article 198, paragraph (1) (limited to the interrogation of the suspect under arrest or detention; the same applies in paragraph (3)) or giving an opportunity for explanation under the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 203, 204 or 205 (including cases when these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of Articles 211 and 216; the same applies in paragraph (3)) with regard to that case and contains an admission of a fact disadvantageous to the defendant, and the defendant or the defense counsel raises an objection relating to the request for the examination on the grounds that the admission is suspected of not being made voluntarily, the public prosecutor must request the examination of the recording medium, on which statements made by the defendant during the period from the commencement of the interrogation or opportunity for explanation in which that document has been prepared to completion thereof and the circumstances are recorded pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4), to prove that the admission is voluntarily made; provided, however, that this does not apply when there is no recording medium due to absence of recording under the same paragraph as the case falling under one of items of the same paragraph, or other unavoidable circumstances:

②If a public prosecutor fails to request the examination of the recording medium provided in the preceding paragraph in violation of the provisions of the same paragraph, a court must render a ruling to dismiss the request for examination of the document provided in the same paragraph.

④When a public prosecutor or a public prosecutor's assistant officer interrogates a suspect under arrest or detention pursuant to the provisions of Article 198, paragraph (1) with regard to the case set forth in one of items of paragraph (1) (excluding cases set forth in item (iii) of the same paragraph for which a related case has been referred or sent and which are expected to be referred or sent by a judicial police officer in light of the actual investigation conducted by the judicial police officer and other circumstances), or gives the suspect an opportunity for explanation pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 204 or 205 (including cases when these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Articles 211 and 216), the public prosecutor or public prosecutor's assistant officer must record statements made by the suspect and the circumstances on a recording medium by a method of recording sound and images simultaneously, except in a case falling under one of the following items; the same applies when a judicial police official interrogates a suspect under arrest or detention pursuant to the provisions of Article 198, paragraph (1) or gives the suspect an opportunity for explanation pursuant to the provisions of Article 203, paragraph (1) (including cases when these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Articles 211 and 216) with regard to the case set forth in paragraph (1), item (i) or (ii):