①If a defense counsel violates the condition or fails to obey the time or method designated pursuant to the provisions of Article 299-4, paragraph (1), (2), (6) or (7), a public prosecutor may, when the defense counsel is an attorney, notify the bar association to which the attorney belongs or the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, and request that appropriate measures be taken.

②If a defense counsel violates the condition or fails to obey the time or method designated pursuant to the provisions of Article 299-5, paragraph (3) or (4), or paragraphs (1) through (4) of the preceding Article, a court may, when the defense counsel is an attorney, notify the bar association to which the attorney belongs or the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, and request that appropriate measures be taken.

③A person who has received a request pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs must notify the public prosecutor or court that has made the request of measures the person has taken.

The public prosecutor must request the examination of documents admissible pursuant to the provisions of the latter part of Article 321, paragraph (1), item (ii).

When the statement of a defendant admissible pursuant to the provisions of Article 322 and Article 324, paragraph (1) is a confession, its examination may not be requested until after the other evidence for fact finding constituting the offense has been examined.

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.

③The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis when the defendant or the defense counsel raises an objection with regard to the case set forth in one of items of paragraph (1) against the use as evidence of the statement that has been made by any person other than the defendant, which may be used as evidence pursuant to the provisions of Article 322, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 324, paragraph (1), and contains any statement made by the defendant in the interrogation with regard to that case pursuant to the provisions of Article 198, paragraph (1) or in the opportunity for explanation under paragraph (1) of Article 203, 204 or 205 (limited to that containing an admission of a fact disadvantageous to the defendant), on the grounds that the admission is suspected of not being made voluntarily.

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):

When the documents admissible pursuant to the provisions of Articles 321 to 323 or Article 326 are part of the investigation records, the public prosecutor must, insofar as possible, have them separated from the other records, and request examination.

With regard to the document recording the results of the examination of witnesses or other persons, inspection, seizure (including an order to provide electronic or magnetic records (limited to one ordering that the records be provided by the method listed in Article 102-2, paragraph (1), item (i), (a))), search and an order to provide electronic or magnetic records (limited to one ordering that the records be provided by the method listed in (b) of that item) (including causing the provision of electronic or magnetic records by that order to provide electronic or magnetic records) conducted in trial preparation, and the articles seized and the recording medium on which the electronic or magnetic records provided by an order to provide electronic or magnetic records (limited to one ordering that the records be provided by the method listed in (b) of that item) are recorded, the court must examine them on the trial date as documentary evidence or articles of evidence.

①Witnesses, expert witnesses, interpreters or translators are first examined by the presiding judge or an associate judge.

②The public prosecutor, the defendant or the defense counsel may, by notifying the presiding judge, examine the witness, expert witness, interpreter or translator after the examination prescribed in the preceding paragraph. In this case, when the examination of the witness, expert witness, interpreter or translator pertains to the request of the public prosecutor, the defendant or the defense counsel, the one who made the request examines them first.

③The court may, if it deems it appropriate, change the order of the examination prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs, upon hearing the opinions of the public prosecutor and the defendant or the defense counsel.

When a court examines a witness and finds that the witness feels pressure and is unable to give sufficient testimony in the presence of the defendant (including cases when the measures provided in Article 157-5, paragraph (1) or the means provided in Article 157-6, paragraph (1) or (2) are taken), the court may have the defendant leave the courtroom during the testimony of the witness, after hearing the opinions of the public prosecutor and the defense counsel, only when the defense counsel is present. In this case, after the witness has testified, the court must have the defendant enter the courtroom, notify the defendant of an outline of the testimony and give the defendant an opportunity to examine the witness.

①When a court examines documentary evidence upon request from a public prosecutor, the defendant or the defense counsel, the presiding judge must order the person who has made the request to read the documents aloud; provided, however, that the presiding judge may personally read them aloud, or have an associate judge or a court clerk do so.

②When a court examines documentary evidence ex officio, the presiding judge must personally read the documents aloud, or have an associate judge or a court clerk do so.

③When a ruling under Article 290-2, paragraph (1) or (3) is rendered, reading documentary evidence aloud pursuant to the preceding two paragraphs shall be conducted by a method whereby particulars identifying the victim are not disclosed.

④The preceding paragraph also applies to the reading of documentary evidence pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2), when a ruling is rendered under Article 290-3, paragraph (1). In this case, the term "particulars identifying the victim" in the same paragraph is replaced with "particulars identifying the witness or the like."

⑤In the examination of a written statement, part of which contains a recording medium, pursuant to the provisions of Article 157-6, paragraph (5), the recording medium shall be played in lieu of reading aloud pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2); provided, however, that the presiding judge may, when finding it appropriate after hearing the opinions of a public prosecutor and the defendant or the defense counsel, order the person who has requested the examination of that written statement, an associate judge or a court clerk to state, or personally state the content of the statement recorded in the written statement, in lieu of playing that recording medium.

⑥When a court plays the recording medium provided in Article 157-6, paragraph (5) pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph and finds it necessary, the court may take the measures provided in Article 157-5, after hearing the opinions of a public prosecutor and the defendant or the defense counsel.