第三百四十二条の八
When a defendant who has received the pronouncement of a judgment to impose imprisonment or a greater punishment has left or attempted to leave Japan without receiving the permission under Article 342-2, when that permission has been rescinded under paragraph (2) of the preceding Article with regard to a defendant who has received the permission under that Article, or if a defendant who has received the permission under Article 342-2 does not, without justifiable grounds, return to or land in Japan within the designated period, the court may, upon the request of the public prosecutor or ex officio, make the ruling specified in each of the following items according to the category of cases set forth in those items.
where no detention warrant has been issued with regard to the defendant: a ruling to detain;
当該被告人について勾留状が発せられていない場合 勾留する決定
where the defendant has been released on bail: a ruling to rescind bail;
当該被告人が保釈されている場合 保釈を取り消す決定
where the execution of detention of the defendant has been suspended: a ruling to rescind the suspension of execution of detention.
当該被告人が勾留の執行停止をされている場合 勾留の執行停止を取り消す決定
When rescinding bail under the preceding paragraph (limited to the part pertaining to item (ii)), the court may, by ruling, forfeit all or part of the bail bond.
第三百四十三条
When a judgment to impose imprisonment or a greater punishment is pronounced, the bail or suspension of execution of detention loses its effect.
拘禁刑以上の刑に処する判決の宣告があつたときは、保釈又は勾留の執行停止は、その効力を失う。
In the case of the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 98 and Article 271-8, paragraph (5) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 312-2, paragraph (4); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) apply mutatis mutandis only when there is no new ruling of bail or suspension of execution of detention. In this case, the phrase "paragraph (1) (" in Article 271-8, paragraph (5) is deemed to be replaced with "Article 271-8, paragraph (1) (".
前項の場合には、新たに保釈又は勾留の執行停止の決定がないときに限り、第九十八条及び第二百七十一条の八第五項(第三百十二条の二第四項において準用する場合を含む。以下この項において同じ。)の規定を準用する。この場合において、第二百七十一条の八第五項中「第一項(」とあるのは、「第二百七十一条の八第一項(」と読み替えるものとする。
第三百四十三条の二
When bail or suspension of execution of detention has lost its effect due to the pronouncement of a judgment to impose imprisonment or a greater punishment, if the defendant is not committed in a penal institution, the public prosecutor may order the defendant to appear at the date and time and the place designated.
検察官は、拘禁刑以上の刑に処する判決の宣告により保釈又は勾留の執行停止がその効力を失つた場合において、被告人が刑事施設に収容されていないときは、被告人に対し、指定する日時及び場所に出頭することを命ずることができる。
第三百四十三条の三
A defendant who has received an order under the preceding Article and who fails to appear at the date and time and the place designated without justifiable grounds is punished by imprisonment for not more than two years.
前条の規定による命令を受けた被告人が、正当な理由がなく、指定された日時及び場所に出頭しないときは、二年以下の拘禁刑に処する。
第三百四十四条
The provisions of the proviso to Article 60, paragraph (2) and Article 89 do not apply after a judgment to impose imprisonment or a greater punishment has been pronounced.
After the pronouncement of a judgment to impose imprisonment or a greater punishment, bail may be granted under Article 90 only where the extent of the disadvantages prescribed in that Article or other disadvantages is significantly high; provided, however, that this does not apply when there are reasonable grounds to find that the extent of the risk of the defendant fleeing if bailed is not high.
第三百四十五条
When there is a notification of a judicial decision of acquittal, dismissal by a bar to prosecution, exculpation, suspended execution of a sentence in whole, dismissal of prosecution (except as provided in Article 338, item (iv)), a fine or a petty fine, the detention warrant loses its effect.
無罪、免訴、刑の免除、刑の全部の執行猶予、公訴棄却(第三百三十八条第四号による場合を除く。)、罰金又は科料の裁判の告知があつたときは、勾留状は、その効力を失う。
第三百四十五条の二
When the court finds, with regard to a defendant who has been notified of a judicial decision imposing a fine (limited to one for which a suspended sentence is not pronounced; the same applies hereinafter), that there is a risk that the fine will be unable to be paid in full after that decision becomes final and binding, the court is to, except where it issues a detention warrant, upon the request of the public prosecutor or ex officio, order by ruling that the defendant must not leave Japan without the permission of the court.
裁判所は、罰金の裁判(その刑の執行猶予の言渡しをしないものに限る。以下同じ。)の告知を受けた被告人について、当該裁判の確定後に罰金を完納することができないこととなるおそれがあると認めるときは、勾留状を発する場合を除き、検察官の請求により、又は職権で、決定で、裁判所の許可を受けなければ本邦から出国してはならないことを命ずるものとする。
The same applies as in the preceding paragraph also when, in granting bail or suspending the execution of detention with regard to the defendant under the preceding paragraph, the court finds that there is a risk that the fine will be unable to be paid in full after the judicial decision imposing a fine becomes final and binding.
第三百四十五条の三
The provisions of Articles 342-3 through 342-8 apply mutatis mutandis to the permission under the preceding Article. In this case, the phrases listed in the middle column of the following table in the provisions listed in the left-hand column of the same table are deemed to be replaced with the phrases listed in the right-hand column of the same table, respectively.
| Article 342-3, Article 342-4, paragraph (2), Article 342-6, paragraph (2), and Article 342-8, paragraph (1) | the pronouncement of a judgment to impose imprisonment or a greater punishment | a ruling under Article 345-2 |
| Article 342-5, paragraph (2) | the pronouncement of the judgment | |
| Article 342-5, paragraph (2) | the category and term of the sentence pertaining to the judgment pronounced | the amount of the fine pertaining to the judicial decision notified and the period of detention in the case where the fine cannot be paid in full |
| Article 342-6, paragraph (2) | Article 342-3 | Article 342-3 as applied mutatis mutandis with the terms replaced pursuant to Article 345-3 |
| Article 342-8, paragraph (1) | when | in the case where |
| if a defendant who has received the permission under Article 342-2 does not, without justifiable grounds, return to or land in Japan within the designated period | in the case where a defendant who has received the permission under Article 342-2 does not, without justifiable grounds, return to or land in Japan within the designated period, if the court finds that there is a risk that the fine will be unable to be paid in full after the judicial decision imposing a fine pertaining to the ruling becomes final and binding |
第三百四十二条の三から第三百四十二条の八までの規定は、前条の許可について準用する。この場合において、次の表の上欄に掲げる規定中同表の中欄に掲げる字句は、それぞれ同表の下欄に掲げる字句に読み替えるものとする。
| 第三百四十二条の三、第三百四十二条の四第二項、第三百四十二条の六第二項及び第三百四十二条の八第一項 | 拘禁刑以上の刑に処する判決の宣告 | 第三百四十五条の二の規定による決定 |
| 第三百四十二条の五第二項 | 当該判決の宣告 | |
| 第三百四十二条の五第二項 | 宣告された判決に係る刑名及び刑期 | 告知された裁判に係る罰金の金額及び罰金を完納することができない場合における留置の期間 |
| 第三百四十二条の六第二項 | 第三百四十二条の三 | 第三百四十五条の三において読み替えて準用する第三百四十二条の三 |
| 第三百四十二条の八第一項 | とき、 | 場合、 |
| ときは | 場合において、当該決定に係る罰金の裁判の確定後に罰金を完納することができないこととなるおそれがあると認めるときは |
第三百四十五条の四
Changes on a date not yet set (Act No. 46 of 2026)
When the court finds that the grounds for the ruling under Article 345-2 no longer exist, it must make a ruling to rescind that ruling, upon the request of the public prosecutor, the person who has received that ruling, or that person's defense counsel, legal representative, curator, spouse, lineal relative or sibling, or ex officio.
裁判所は、第三百四十五条の二の規定による決定の理由がなくなつたと認めるときは、検察官、当該決定を受けた者若しくはその弁護人、法定代理人、保佐人、配偶者、直系の親族若しくは兄弟姉妹の請求により、又は職権で、決定で、当該決定を取り消さなければならない。
Except where the ruling is made upon the request of the public prosecutor, the court must hear the opinion of the public prosecutor in advance when making a ruling under the preceding paragraph.
裁判所は、検察官の請求による場合を除いて、前項の規定による決定をするときは、あらかじめ、検察官の意見を聴かなければならない。
第三百四十六条
When there is no rendition for the confiscating of seized objects, the decision to release the seizure is deemed to have been rendered.
押収した物について、没収の言渡がないときは、押収を解く言渡があつたものとする。
第三百四十六条の二
When there is no rendition of confiscation with regard to an electronic or magnetic record transferred pursuant to 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) (limited to the method of transferring electronic or magnetic records onto a recording medium)), a rendition permitting the copying of that electronic or magnetic record is deemed to have been made; provided, however, that this does not apply to electronic or magnetic records that have been unlawfully created.
電磁的記録提供命令(第百二条の二第一項第一号ロに掲げる方法(電磁的記録を記録媒体に移転させるものに限る。)による提供を命ずるものに限る。)により移転させた電磁的記録について、没収の言渡しがないときは、当該電磁的記録の複写を許す言渡しがあつたものとする。ただし、不正に作られた電磁的記録については、この限りでない。
第三百四十七条
The court must order the return of seized property obtained through a property crime when the reason necessitating return to the victim is clear.
押収した贓物で被害者に還付すべき理由が明らかなものは、これを被害者に還付する言渡をしなければならない。
The preceding paragraph applies when there is a request by a victim for delivery of an object which has been received in exchange for property obtained through a property crime.
贓物の対価として得た物について、被害者から交付の請求があつたときは、前項の例による。
When there is no particular rendition on a provisionally returned object, an order for return is deemed to have been rendered.
仮に還付した物について、別段の言渡がないときは、還付の言渡があつたものとする。
The provisions of the preceding three paragraphs do not prevent interested parties from claiming their rights in accordance with the procedures of civil actions.
前三項の規定は、民事訴訟の手続に従い、利害関係人がその権利を主張することを妨げない。
第三百四十八条
If the court, in rendering a fine, petty fine or collection of a sum of equivalent value, deems that it will be impossible or difficult to execute the judgment should there be a delay until the judgment becomes final and binding, the court may, upon a request by the public prosecutor or ex officio, order the defendant to provisionally pay an amount equal to the fine, petty fine or collection of a sum of equivalent value.
裁判所は、罰金、科料又は追徴を言い渡す場合において、判決の確定を待つてはその執行をすることができず、又はその執行をするのに著しい困難を生ずる虞があると認めるときは、検察官の請求により又は職権で、被告人に対し、仮に罰金、科料又は追徴に相当する金額を納付すべきことを命ずることができる。
An order of provisional payment must be rendered at the same time as the rendition of punishment by a judgment.
仮納付の裁判は、刑の言渡と同時に、判決でその言渡をしなければならない。
A sentence for provisional payment may be executed immediately.
仮納付の裁判は、直ちにこれを執行することができる。
第三百四十九条
When a rendition to suspend an execution of the sentence is to be revoked, a public prosecutor must make a request for the revocation to the district, family or summary court which has jurisdiction over the present place or the last domicile of the person who has been sentenced to punishment.
刑の執行猶予の言渡しを取り消すべき場合には、検察官は、刑の言渡しを受けた者の現在地又は最後の住所地を管轄する地方裁判所、家庭裁判所又は簡易裁判所に対しその請求をしなければならない。
When a rendition to suspend the execution of a sentence is to be revoked pursuant to the provisions of Article 26-2, item (ii) or Article 27-5, item (ii) of the Penal Code, a request under the preceding paragraph must be made based on a proposal submitted by the director of a probation office.
刑法第二十六条の二第二号又は第二十七条の五第二号の規定により刑の執行猶予の言渡しを取り消すべき場合には、前項の請求は、保護観察所の長の申出に基づいてこれをしなければならない。
When a suspended sentence is to be rescinded pursuant to the provisions of Article 27, paragraph (4) or (5) or Article 27-7, paragraph (4) or (5) of the Penal Code, a request under paragraph (1) may not be made after two months have elapsed from the day on which a judicial decision imposing a fine or a heavier sentence has become final and binding for a crime that was further committed during the period of the suspended execution of the sentence in whole prescribed in the first sentence of Article 27, paragraph (2) of that Act, or after the rendition of the suspended execution of the sentence in part prescribed in the first sentence of Article 27-7, paragraph (2) of that Act and before the end of the period of suspension, and that relates to the grounds for the request.
刑法第二十七条第四項若しくは第五項又は第二十七条の七第四項若しくは第五項の規定により刑の執行猶予の言渡しを取り消すべき場合には、第一項の請求は、同法第二十七条第二項前段に規定する刑の全部の執行猶予の期間内又は同法第二十七条の七第二項前段に規定する刑の一部の執行猶予の言渡し後その猶予の期間を経過するまでに更に犯した罪であつて当該請求の理由に係るものについて罰金以上の刑に処する裁判が確定した日から二箇月を経過した後は、これをすることができない。
第三百四十九条の二
When a request is made under the preceding Article, a court must make a ruling after hearing the opinion of the person to whom the suspended execution of the sentence has been rendered or the person's representative.
前条の請求があつたときは、裁判所は、猶予の言渡を受けた者又はその代理人の意見を聴いて決定をしなければならない。
In the case of the preceding paragraph, when the request is for the revocation of rendition of the suspended execution of the sentence pursuant to the provisions of Article 26-2, item (ii) or Article 27-5, item (ii) of the Penal Code and there is a request by the persons to whom the suspended execution of the sentence has been rendered, the proceeding must undergo an oral argument.
前項の場合において、その請求が刑法第二十六条の二第二号又は第二十七条の五第二号の規定による猶予の言渡しの取消しを求めるものであつて、猶予の言渡しを受けた者の請求があるときは、口頭弁論を経なければならない。
When it comes to undergoing an oral argument to make the ruling prescribed in paragraph (1), a person who has been rendered suspended execution of a sentence is entitled to appoint defense counsel.
第一項の決定をするについて口頭弁論を経る場合には、猶予の言渡を受けた者は、弁護人を選任することができる。
When it comes to undergoing an oral argument to make the ruling prescribed in paragraph (1), the public prosecutor may, with the permission of the court, have a probation officer state their opinion.
第一項の決定をするについて口頭弁論を経る場合には、検察官は、裁判所の許可を得て、保護観察官に意見を述べさせることができる。
An immediate appeal against the ruling prescribed in paragraph (1) may be filed.
第一項の決定に対しては、即時抗告をすることができる。
第三百五十条
If a punishment is to be determined pursuant to the provisions of Article 52 of the Penal Code, the public prosecutor must request the court which rendered the final judgment on the facts of the crime to do so. In this case, the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (5) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis.
electronic or magnetic recordmachine translation
「電磁的記録」
A record made in electronic, magnetic or any other form people cannot perceive directly, for use in computer processing.
Defined inArticle 99, paragraph (2)
order to provide electronic or magnetic recordsmachine translation
「電磁的記録提供命令」
An order by which a court requires a person who keeps electronic or magnetic records (電磁的記録), or another person with authority to use them, to provide the records it needs, by copying or moving them onto a recording medium that is handed over or, over a telecommunications line, onto one the court manages.
Defined inArticle 102-2, paragraph (1)
designated periodmachine translation
「指定期間」
The period that a court, when it permits under Article 342-2 a person against whom a judgment of imprisonment (拘禁刑) or a heavier punishment has been pronounced to leave Japan, designates as the time the person may stay abroad.
Short name set inArticle 342-4, paragraph (5)
confiscation
没収
A punishment that can only be added to a principal one (付加刑) (Penal Code, Article 9): a thing connected with the crime is confiscated. What may be confiscated is the thing that makes up the crime, a thing used or meant to be used for it, a thing it produced or gained or that was received as a reward for it, and what was received in exchange for such a thing (Article 19, paragraph (1)); only a thing belonging to no one but the offender, unless someone else acquired it after the crime knowing the facts (paragraph (2)). For a crime punishable only by penal detention (拘留) or a petty fine (科料), only the thing that makes up the crime may be confiscated, unless a special provision says otherwise (Article 20). Where a thing gained by the crime cannot be confiscated, its value may be collected instead (追徴) (Article 19-2).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 19, 19-2, 20 as a reference.
fine
罰金
A criminal punishment of paying money to the state, of 10,000 yen or more, or less where it is reduced (Penal Code, Article 15). It ranks below imprisonment (拘禁刑) and above penal detention (拘留) and a petty fine (科料) (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). A person who cannot pay it in full is held in a workhouse (労役場) for one day to two years, or up to three years where fines are imposed together, a period set when the sentence is passed (Article 18, paragraphs (1), (3) and (4)); not within thirty days of the sentence becoming final without the person's consent (paragraph (5)). If it is not enforced for three years after the sentence becomes final, the person is released from it by prescription (Articles 31 and 32, item (v)); the three years do not run while its execution is suspended under law or the person is abroad, and an act of execution interrupts them (Articles 33 and 34, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 15, 18, 31 to 34 as a reference.
imprisonment
拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term can be raised to thirty years where the punishment is aggravated, or cut below one month where it is reduced (Article 14, paragraph (2)). To help the person reform and rehabilitate, they may be made to do work or given guidance (Article 12, paragraph (3)). It ranks below the death penalty and above a fine (罰金) among the principal punishments (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). It replaced imprisonment with work (懲役) and imprisonment without work (禁錮) when the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) came into force (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2), and a person sentenced to either is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.
petty fine
科料
The lightest criminal punishment: paying 1,000 yen or more but less than 10,000 yen (Penal Code, Articles 9, 10 and 17). A person who cannot pay it in full is held in a workhouse (労役場) for one day to thirty days (Article 18, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 17, 18 as a reference.
public prosecutor
検察官
The official who brings a prosecution (公訴) for a crime before a court (Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 247), and who may decide not to prosecute where, in view of the offender's character, age and circumstances, the gravity and circumstances of the offence and what happened after it, prosecution is not needed (Article 248). In criminal cases a public prosecutor asks the court to apply the law correctly and oversees the carrying out of its judgments; and, as the representative of the public interest, a public prosecutor also does the work other laws and regulations assign to a public prosecutor, which is not limited to criminal cases (Public Prosecutors Office Act, Article 4). A public prosecutor may investigate any crime (Article 6, paragraph (1)). Public prosecutors work through the public prosecutors offices (検察庁): the Supreme, High, District and Local Public Prosecutors Offices (Article 1).
Written by AI using Code of Criminal Procedure, Arts. 247, 248 and Public Prosecutors Office Act, Arts. 1, 4, 6 as a reference.
summary court
簡易裁判所
One of the four kinds of lower court (下級裁判所) beneath the Supreme Court, with the high courts (高等裁判所), the district courts (地方裁判所) and the family courts (家庭裁判所) (Courts Act, Article 1, and Article 2, paragraph (1)). A summary court has jurisdiction at first instance over civil claims whose value does not exceed 1.4 million yen, other than claims in administrative cases, and over criminal cases for offences punishable by no more than a fine or for which a fine is one of the penalties the law allows, among others (Article 33, paragraph (1)). A petition for court mediation goes, unless a special rule says otherwise, to the summary court for the place where the other party lives or has its business office or other office, or to a district court or summary court the parties agree on (Civil Mediation Act, Article 3, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Courts Act, Arts. 1, 2, 33 and Civil Mediation Act, Art. 3 as a reference.
suspended sentence
執行猶予
A court's decision, when it passes a sentence, to hold off carrying it out. A person sentenced to imprisonment (拘禁刑) of three years or less or a fine (罰金) of 500,000 yen or less who has not been sentenced to imprisonment before, or not within five years of finishing such a sentence, may have the whole of it suspended for one to five years from the day the judgment becomes final (Penal Code, Article 25, paragraph (1)), and may be put under probation (保護観察) for that time (Article 25-2, paragraph (1)). A person whose earlier imprisonment was itself wholly suspended may have a new sentence of two years or less suspended again where there are especially extenuating circumstances, and is then put under probation (Article 25, paragraph (2); Article 25-2, paragraph (1)). If the period passes without the suspension being revoked, the sentence loses its effect (Article 27, paragraph (1)), unless a prosecution is pending for a crime committed in the period, in which case it stays in effect and can still be revoked (paragraphs (2), (4) and (5)); it must or may be revoked if, for example, the person commits another crime in the period and is sentenced to imprisonment without suspension (Articles 26 and 26-2). A sentence of imprisonment of three years or less may also be suspended in part, the rest being served first (Article 27-2).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 25 to 27-2 as a reference.