Article 316-15

一articles of evidence;

三documents provided in Article 321, paragraph (3) or equivalent documents;

四documents provided in Article 321, paragraph (4) or equivalent documents;

五recorded statement documents of:

イany person the public prosecutor has requested to examine as a witness; or

ロany person who has made a statement in the recorded statement documents which the public prosecutor has requested to examine, and whom the public prosecutor plans to request to examine as a witness if consent referred to in Article 326 is not given with regard to those recorded statement documents;

六in addition to those set forth in the preceding item, the recorded statement documents of any person other than the defendant, which contain a statement relating to the existence of a fact the public prosecutor plans to prove directly from particular evidence for examination requested by the public prosecutor;

七recorded statement documents of the defendant;

八documents which public prosecutors, public prosecutor's assistant officers or judicial police officials are obliged to prepare in the course of duties under the rules relating to interrogation records, in which the date, time, place and other circumstances of the interrogation of a person under physical restraint are recorded (limited to those concerning the defendant, or a person set forth in item (v), (a) or (b) who is under physical restraint or for whom prosecution has been instituted as an accomplice of the defendant); or

九recorded seizure procedure documents of articles of evidence that are evidence for examination requested by the public prosecutor (meaning documents which public prosecutors, public prosecutor's assistant officers or judicial police officials are obliged to prepare in the course of duties under the rules relating to records of seizure procedures or of procedures for having electronic or magnetic records provided by an order to provide electronic or magnetic records (limited to an order that orders provision by the method set forth in Article 102-2, paragraph (1), item (i), (b); hereinafter the same applies in this item), in which the person who seized, the date, place and other circumstances of the seizure of articles of evidence, or the person who made the order, the date of the provision of electronic or magnetic records and other circumstances of the provision of electronic or magnetic records by an order to provide electronic or magnetic records are recorded; the same applies in the following paragraph and paragraph (3), item (ii), (a)).

一in the case of a request for disclosure under paragraph (1), the following matters:

イa category of evidence set forth in each item of paragraph (1), and sufficient particulars to identify the evidence requested to be disclosed; and

ロthe importance of the evidence requested to be disclosed to determine the probative value of particular evidence for examination requested by the public prosecutor and other reasons for which disclosure is necessary for preparation of the defense of the defendant in light of the content of the case concerned, facts planned to be proven by particular evidence for examination requested by the public prosecutor, the connection between the evidence requested to be disclosed and the particular evidence for examination requested by the public prosecutor, and other circumstances; or

二in the case of a request for disclosure under the preceding paragraph, the following matters:

イsufficient particulars to identify the recorded seizure procedure documents requested to be disclosed; and

ロthe reason for which disclosure is necessary to determine the probative value of particular evidence for examination requested by the public prosecutor using articles of evidence to be disclosed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), in light of the connection between those articles of evidence and the particular evidence for examination requested by the public prosecutor, and other circumstances.