第三百五十条の八
Changes by (Act No. 39 of 2025)
When a public prosecutor, the defendant or the defense counsel requests the examination of the recorded statement documents of a person other than that defendant, which have been prepared by the person based on an agreement under Article 350-2, paragraph (1), or in or on which statements made by the person based on an agreement under the same paragraph have been recorded and taken down in writing or recorded, or a court decides to examine those documents ex officio, the public prosecutor must request the examination of the statement of agreement without delay. In this case, the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis.
第三百五十条の九
Changes by (Act No. 39 of 2025)
When a public prosecutor, the defendant or the defense counsel requests the examination of a witness or a court decides to examine a witness ex officio, and there is an agreement with the person who is to be the witness under Article 350-2, paragraph (1) with regard to the witness's examination, the public prosecutor must request the examination of the statement of agreement without delay. In this case, the provisions of Article 350-7, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis.
検察官、被告人若しくは弁護人が証人尋問を請求し、又は裁判所が職権で証人尋問を行うこととした場合において、その証人となるべき者との間で当該証人尋問についてした第三百五十条の二第一項の合意があるときは、検察官は、遅滞なく、合意内容書面の取調べを請求しなければならない。この場合においては、第三百五十条の七第三項の規定を準用する。
Section 3 Termination of Agreement
第三節 合意の終了
第三百五十条の十
When there are any of the grounds set forth in the following items, the person provided in that item may pull out of an agreement under Article 350-2, paragraph (1):
次の各号に掲げる事由があるときは、当該各号に定める者は、第三百五十条の二第一項の合意から離脱することができる。
when the party to the agreement under Article 350-2, paragraph (1) violates the agreement, the other party to the agreement;
第三百五十条の二第一項の合意の当事者が当該合意に違反したとき その相手方
on the following grounds, the defendant:
次に掲げる事由 被告人
when a public prosecutor requests the addition, withdrawal or alteration of a count or an applicable penal statute based on the agreement under Article 350-2, paragraph (1), pertaining to item (ii), (d) of the same paragraph, and a court does not approve the request;
検察官が第三百五十条の二第一項第二号ニに係る同項の合意に基づいて訴因又は罰条の追加、撤回又は変更を請求した場合において、裁判所がこれを許さなかつたとき。
when a court, with regard to the case in which a public prosecutor has stated an opinion to the effect that the specific sentence should be rendered to the defendant, in the statement of opinions pursuant to the provisions of Article 293, paragraph (1), based on the agreement under Article 350-2, paragraph (1), pertaining to item (ii), (e) of the same paragraph, renders a sentence heavier than that sentence;
検察官が第三百五十条の二第一項第二号ホに係る同項の合意に基づいて第二百九十三条第一項の規定による意見の陳述において被告人に特定の刑を科すべき旨の意見を陳述した事件について、裁判所がその刑より重い刑の言渡しをしたとき。
with regard to the case for which a public prosecutor has filed a petition for expedited trial proceedings based on the agreement under Article 350-2, paragraph (1), pertaining to item (ii), (f) of the same paragraph, when a court renders a ruling to dismiss the petition (only on the grounds that it falls under the case set forth in Article 350-22, item (iii) or (iv)), or revokes the ruling under Article 350-22 on the grounds that it comes to fall under Article 350-25, paragraph (1), item (iii) or (iv) (with regard to item (iv), except when it falls under the same item due to a statement made by the defendant, which is contrary to or substantially different from the statement that the defendant is guilty for the count written in the charging sheet);
検察官が第三百五十条の二第一項第二号ヘに係る同項の合意に基づいて即決裁判手続の申立てをした事件について、裁判所がこれを却下する決定（第三百五十条の二十二第三号又は第四号に掲げる場合に該当することを理由とするものに限る。）をし、又は第三百五十条の二十五第一項第三号若しくは第四号に該当すること（同号については、被告人が起訴状に記載された訴因について有罪である旨の陳述と相反するか又は実質的に異なつた供述をしたことにより同号に該当する場合を除く。）となつたことを理由として第三百五十条の二十二の決定を取り消したとき。
with regard to the case for which a public prosecutor has filed a request for a summary order based on the agreement under Article 350-2, paragraph (1), pertaining to item (ii), (g) of the same paragraph, when a court decides to try the case in accordance with regular provisions pursuant to the provisions of Article 463, paragraph (1) or (2), or the public prosecutor requests a formal trial pursuant to the provisions of Article 465, paragraph (1); or
検察官が第三百五十条の二第一項第二号トに係る同項の合意に基づいて略式命令の請求をした事件について、裁判所が第四百六十三条第一項若しくは第二項の規定により通常の規定に従い審判をすることとし、又は検察官が第四百六十五条第一項の規定により正式裁判の請求をしたとき。
on the following grounds, a public prosecutor:
次に掲げる事由 検察官
when it becomes clear that the content of a statement made by a suspect or the defendant during a consultation under Article 350-4 with regard to another person's criminal case is not true; or
in addition to those set forth in item (i), when it becomes clear that the content of a statement made by a suspect or the defendant based on the agreement under Article 350-2, paragraph (1) is not true, or evidence submitted by a suspect or the defendant based on the agreement under the same paragraph is a counterfeit or an altered article.
第一号に掲げるもののほか、被疑者若しくは被告人が第三百五十条の二第一項の合意に基づいてした供述の内容が真実でないこと又は被疑者若しくは被告人が同項の合意に基づいて提出した証拠が偽造若しくは変造されたものであることが明らかになつたとき。
Changes by (Act No. 39 of 2025)
The party to an agreement shall pull out of the agreement pursuant to the preceding paragraph by notifying the other party to the agreement that the party is to pull out of the agreement, in writing stating the reasons.
前項の規定による離脱は、その理由を記載した書面により、当該離脱に係る合意の相手方に対し、当該合意から離脱する旨の告知をして行うものとする。
第三百五十条の十一
With regard to the case in which a public prosecutor has made a disposition not to institute prosecution based on an agreement under Article 350-2, paragraph (1), pertaining to item (ii), (a) of the same paragraph, if a decision under Article 39-5, paragraph (1), item (i) or (ii) of the Act on Committee for Inquest of Prosecution or a decision for institution of prosecution under Article 41-6, paragraph (1) of the same Act is made, the agreement ceases to be effective.
検察官が第三百五十条の二第一項第二号イに係る同項の合意に基づいて公訴を提起しない処分をした事件について、検察審査会法第三十九条の五第一項第一号若しくは第二号の議決又は同法第四十一条の六第一項の起訴議決があつたときは、当該合意は、その効力を失う。
第三百五十条の十二
In the case of the preceding Article, even when prosecution is instituted for the case pertaining to the decision, the statement made by the defendant during a consultation under Article 350-4, evidence obtained by the act of the defendant based on the agreement and evidence obtained based on the statement or evidence may not be used as evidence in the defendant's criminal case.
The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply in the following cases:
前項の規定は、次に掲げる場合には、これを適用しない。
when it becomes clear that any act performed by the defendant before the decision provided in the preceding Article is made violates the agreement, or the case comes to fall under the grounds set forth in Article 350-10, paragraph (1), item (iii), (a) or (b);
前条に規定する議決の前に被告人がした行為が、当該合意に違反するものであつたことが明らかになり、又は第三百五十条の十第一項第三号イ若しくはロに掲げる事由に該当することとなつたとき。
when any act made by the defendant as it is based on the agreement or during the consultation falls under a crime under Article 350-15, paragraph (1), or Article 103, 104, 169 or 172 of the Penal Code, or a crime under Article 7 of the Organized Crime Punishment Act pertaining to the person set forth in the provisions of paragraph (1), item (i) or (ii) of the same Article, and is used in the case involving the crime; or
被告人が当該合意に基づくものとしてした行為又は当該協議においてした行為が第三百五十条の十五第一項の罪、刑法第百三条、第百四条、第百六十九条若しくは第百七十二条の罪又は組織的犯罪処罰法第七条第一項第一号若しくは第二号に掲げる者に係る同条の罪に当たる場合において、これらの罪に係る事件において用いるとき。
when the defendant does not object to use as evidence.
証拠とすることについて被告人に異議がないとき。
Section 4 Ensuring the Performance of Agreement
第四節 合意の履行の確保
第三百五十条の十三
If a public prosecutor, in violation of the agreement under Article 350-2, paragraph (1), pertaining to item (ii), (a) through (d), (f) or (g) of the same paragraph (with regard to the agreement pertaining to (c) of the same item, limited to that made to the effect that prosecution is instituted using the specific count and applicable penal statute), institutes prosecution, does not withdraw prosecution, institutes prosecution using a different count and applicable penal statute, maintains prosecution without requesting the addition, withdrawal or alteration of the count or applicable penal statute, or with requesting the addition or withdrawal of a different count or applicable penal statute or the alteration of the count or applicable penal statute to a different count or applicable penal statute, or institutes prosecution without filing a petition for expedited trial proceedings or a request for a summary order at the same time, a court must render a judgment to dismiss the prosecution.
検察官が第三百五十条の二第一項第二号イからニまで、ヘ又はトに係る同項の合意（同号ハに係るものについては、特定の訴因及び罰条により公訴を提起する旨のものに限る。）に違反して、公訴を提起し、公訴を取り消さず、異なる訴因及び罰条により公訴を提起し、訴因若しくは罰条の追加、撤回若しくは変更を請求することなく若しくは異なる訴因若しくは罰条の追加若しくは撤回若しくは異なる訴因若しくは罰条への変更を請求して公訴を維持し、又は即決裁判手続の申立て若しくは略式命令の請求を同時にすることなく公訴を提起したときは、判決で当該公訴を棄却しなければならない。
If a public prosecutor requests the addition or alteration of a count or an applicable penal statute in violation of an agreement under Article 350-2, paragraph (1), pertaining to item (ii), (c) of the same paragraph (limited to that made to the effect that prosecution is maintained using the specific count and applicable penal statute), a court must not approve the request notwithstanding the provisions of Article 312, paragraph (1).
検察官が第三百五十条の二第一項第二号ハに係る同項の合意（特定の訴因及び罰条により公訴を維持する旨のものに限る。）に違反して訴因又は罰条の追加又は変更を請求したときは、裁判所は、第三百十二条第一項の規定にかかわらず、これを許してはならない。
第三百五十条の十四
When a public prosecutor violates an agreement under Article 350-2, paragraph (1), a statement made by the defendant during a consultation under Article 350-4 and evidence obtained by the act of the defendant based on the agreement may not be used as evidence.
検察官が第三百五十条の二第一項の合意に違反したときは、被告人が第三百五十条の四の協議においてした供述及び当該合意に基づいてした被告人の行為により得られた証拠は、これらを証拠とすることができない。
The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply when the defendant does not object to use as evidence for the defendant's criminal case, and when a person other than that defendant does not object to use as evidence for the person's criminal case.
前項の規定は、当該被告人の刑事事件の証拠とすることについて当該被告人に異議がない場合及び当該被告人以外の者の刑事事件の証拠とすることについてその者に異議がない場合には、これを適用しない。
第三百五十条の十五
A person who has made a false statement or submitted evidence that is a counterfeit or an altered article to a public prosecutor, a public prosecutor's assistant officer or a judicial police official in violation of an agreement under Article 350-2, paragraph (1) is punished by imprisonment for not more than five years.
第三百五十条の二第一項の合意に違反して、検察官、検察事務官又は司法警察職員に対し、虚偽の供述をし又は偽造若しくは変造の証拠を提出した者は、五年以下の拘禁刑に処する。
When a person who has committed the crime under the preceding paragraph confesses before both judgments on another person's criminal case and the person's criminal case pertaining to the agreement become final and binding, the confession may lead to the punishment being reduced or exculpate the offender.
judicial police officialmachine translation
「司法警察職員」
Judicial police officers (司法警察員) and judicial police constables (司法巡査) together.
Defined inArticle 39, paragraph (3)
recorded statement documentmachine translation
「供述録取書等」
A written statement by the person who makes it, a written record of a statement bearing the signature or seal of the person who made it, or a recording medium able to record images or sound on which a statement has been recorded.
Defined inArticle 290-3, paragraph (1)
another person's criminal case
「他人の刑事事件」
A criminal case of another person involving a specific crime (特定犯罪), about which a suspect or defendant may agree with a public prosecutor, under Article 350-2, to make true statements in interrogation or as a witness or to help gather evidence, in return for the prosecutor not prosecuting, withdrawing or limiting the charges, or taking another of the steps that Article lists.
Short name set inArticle 350-2, paragraph (1)
Organized Crime Punishment Act
「組織的犯罪処罰法」
Short name for the Act on Punishment of Organized Crimes and Control of Proceeds of Crime (Act No. 136 of 1999).
Short name set inArticle 350-2, paragraph (2), item (ii)
statement of agreement
「合意内容書面」
The document, signed jointly by the public prosecutor, the suspect or defendant and defense counsel, that sets out an agreement under Article 350-2 (Article 350-3, paragraph (2)); once prosecution is instituted in the case, the prosecutor must ask the court without delay to examine it as evidence.
Short name set inArticle 350-7, paragraph (1)
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.
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.