Every term this law . Its definitions bind only this law — each entry says where the definition applies and links to the sentence that settles it. 85 terms: 13 with the Ministry of Justice's English, 72 in our translation, marked as such.
A person's name, address or any other matter that would identify an individual.
氏名及び住所その他の個人を特定させることとなる事項
司法警察職員
Judicial police officers (司法警察員) and judicial police constables (司法巡査) together.
司法警察員及び司法巡査
A record made in electronic, magnetic or any other form people cannot perceive directly, for use in computer processing.
電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によつては認識することができない方式で作られる記録であつて、電子計算機による情報処理の用に供されるもの
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.
次の各号に掲げる者に対し、当該各号に定める方法により必要な電磁的記録を提供することを命ずる命令
An extract of the charging sheet (起訴状) with the particulars identifying an individual (個人特定事項) concerned left out, or another document in place of a copy of it, which a public prosecutor submits with the charging sheet when instituting prosecution, to be served on the defendant, when asking the court under Article 271-2 to keep those particulars from the defendant.
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 28 of 2023.
被害者参加人
A victim or other person whom the court has permitted, under Article 316-33, paragraph (1), to take part in the proceedings of the case against the defendant.
The day the 2022 Act amending the Penal Code and other laws (刑法等の一部を改正する法律, Act No. 67 of 2022) comes into effect.
The total of the cash, deposits and other similar assets a Cabinet Order (政令) sets that belong to a person.
被害者等
A victim, or, where the victim has died or has a serious physical or mental disability, the victim's spouse, lineal relative (直系の親族) or brother or sister.
被害者又は被害者が死亡した場合若しくはその心身に重大な故障がある場合におけるその配偶者、直系の親族若しくは兄弟姉妹
A document reporting a person's financial resources (資力), the total of their cash, deposits and other similar assets a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, and their breakdown, which a defendant (and, under Article 37-3, a suspect) must submit when asking for defense counsel to be appointed by the court.
その者に属する現金、預金その他政令で定めるこれらに準ずる資産の合計額（以下「資力」という。）及びその内訳を申告する書面
The name, address or any other matter that would identify the victim of a case, which the court may decide, under Article 290-2, not to disclose in open court in sexual offence cases and the other cases that Article lists.
氏名及び住所その他の当該事件の被害者を特定させることとなる事項
基準額
The amount, set by Cabinet Order (政令), that is taken as generally enough to pay a defense counsel's fees and expenses, allowing for standard living costs; a defendant or suspect whose financial resources (資力) reach it must first apply to a bar association for defense counsel before asking the court to appoint one.
標準的な必要生計費を勘案して一般に弁護人の報酬及び費用を賄うに足りる額として政令で定める額
同一構内
In Article 157-6, paragraphs (1) and (2), the same premises as the place where the judges and the persons concerned in the case sit to examine a witness.
これらの者が在席する場所と同一の構内
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.
供述書、供述を録取した書面で供述者の署名若しくは押印のあるもの又は映像若しくは音声を記録することができる記録媒体であつて供述を記録したもの
The Act as amended by the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
この法律による改正後の刑事訴訟法
The date the provisions listed in Article 1, item (iii) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Act Partially Amending the Code of Criminal Procedure, etc. (Act No. 54 of 2016) come into effect, a date set by Cabinet Order (政令) within six months of that Act's promulgation (公布, its official publication).
The facts a party plans to prove by evidence on the trial dates (公判期日); in pretrial arrangement proceedings (公判前整理手続) the public prosecutor must first set them out in a document submitted to the court.
公判期日において証拠により証明しようとする事実
Evidence a public prosecutor has asked the court to examine under Article 316-13 in a case put into pretrial arrangement proceedings (公判前整理手続), which the prosecutor must then promptly disclose to the defendant or defense counsel.
第一条による改正後の法
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 54 of 2016.
The name, address or any other matter that would identify a witness or the like (証人等), which the court may decide, under Article 290-3, not to disclose in open court.
氏名及び住所その他の当該証人等を特定させることとなる事項
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.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of the 2023 Act amending the Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure (Act No. 66 of 2023), the Penal Code as it stood before Article 1 of that Act amended it, where Article 2, paragraph (1) of those supplementary provisions keeps the earlier rules applying to acts done before the date that Act comes into effect.
開始決定再審請求者
In Chapter XVI (compensation for costs), the person, other than a public prosecutor, who made the request for a retrial (再審) on which a ruling to commence the retrial (再審開始の決定) was made; where that ruling has become final and the defendant is then acquitted, the State compensates this person for the costs of the request procedure.
Copies, and any other items or documents, that record all or part of a piece of evidence exactly as it is.
複製その他証拠の全部又は一部をそのまま記録した物及び書面
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.
This Act as amended by Article 3 of Act No. 66 of 2023.
The document in which a public prosecutor asks the court, under Article 312, paragraph (1), to add, withdraw or change a count (訴因) or applicable penal statute (罰条) set out in the charging sheet (起訴状).
第三百十二条第四項に規定する訴因変更等請求書面
An extract of the written request for alteration of counts (訴因変更等請求書面) with the particulars identifying an individual (個人特定事項) concerned left out, or another document in place of a copy of that request, which a public prosecutor submits with the request, to be served on the defendant, when asking the court under Article 312-2 to keep those particulars from the defendant.
同項に規定する訴因変更等請求書面抄本等
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.
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).
The Act as it stood before the amendment these supplementary provisions deal with.
従前の刑事訴訟法
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 62 of 2004.
Short name for the 2022 Act amending the Penal Code and other laws (刑法等の一部を改正する法律, Act No. 67 of 2022).
The warden of a penal institution (刑事施設), or an official of that institution whom the warden designates.
刑事施設の長又はその指名する刑事施設の職員
The document in which a public prosecutor asks the court, under Article 312, paragraph (1), to add, withdraw or change a count (訴因) or applicable penal statute (罰条) set out in the charging sheet (起訴状).
第一条による改正前の法
This Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 54 of 2016 amended it.
第二条による改正前の法
This Act as it stood before Article 2 of Act No. 54 of 2016 amended it.
第六号施行日
The date the provisions listed in Article 1, item (vi) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Act Partially Amending the Code of Criminal Procedure, etc. (Act No. 28 of 2023) come into effect, a date set by Cabinet Order (政令) within two years of that Act's promulgation (公布, its official publication).
In Article 290-3, paragraph (1), a witness, expert witness, interpreter or translator, or a person who made the statement in a recorded statement document (供述録取書等).
An extract of the written request for alteration of counts (訴因変更等請求書面) with the particulars identifying an individual (個人特定事項) concerned left out, or another document in place of a copy of that request, which a public prosecutor submits with the request, to be served on the defendant, when asking the court under Article 312-2 to keep those particulars from the defendant.
押収手続等記録書面
A document that a public prosecutor, public prosecutor's assistant officer (検察事務官) or judicial police official must prepare in the course of duty, under the rules on recording seizure procedures and procedures for having electronic or magnetic records (電磁的記録) provided under an order to provide them (電磁的記録提供命令), recording who seized an item of evidence and when, where and how, or who made the order and when and how the records were provided.
押収手続又は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による提供を命ずるものに限る。以下この号において同じ。）により電磁的記録を提供させる手続の記録に関する準則に基づき、検察官、検察事務官又は司法警察職員が職務上作成することを義務付けられている書面であつて、証拠物の押収又は電磁的記録提供命令による電磁的記録の提供に関し、その押収者、押収の年月日、押収場所その他の押収の状況又はその命令をした者、電磁的記録の提供の年月日その他の電磁的記録提供命令による電磁的記録の提供の状況を記録したもの
Short name for the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (Cabinet Order No. 319 of 1951).
第二条による改正後の法
This Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 54 of 2016.
The date Act No. 28 of 2023, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
第二号施行日
The date the provisions listed in Article 1, item (ii) of the supplementary provisions of the amending law in question came into force.
従前の例による平成二十九年改正前刑法
The Penal Code as it stood before the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code (Act No. 72 of 2017) amended it, where Article 2, paragraph (1) of that Act's supplementary provisions (附則) keeps the earlier rules applying.
This Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 66 of 2023.
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).
第二号施行日
The date the provisions listed in Article 1, item (ii) of the supplementary provisions of the amending law in question came into force.
In Article 299-4, paragraphs (6) and (8), a person whose name or address appears in documentary or physical evidence and whom the public prosecutor asks to examine as a witness, expert witness, interpreter or translator, or who made the statement in a recorded statement document (供述録取書等).
特定犯罪
The crimes Article 350-2, paragraph (2) lists, among them forgery, bribery, fraud, extortion, breach of trust and embezzlement under the Penal Code, certain crimes under the Act on Punishment of Organized Crimes and Control of Proceeds of Crime, tax, antimonopoly, financial instruments and other financial and economic crimes a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, crimes under the drug, firearms, explosives and weapons laws it names, and harboring an offender, destroying evidence or intimidating witnesses in connection with those crimes, leaving out any punishable by death or life imprisonment (無期拘禁刑); only a case involving one of them can be the subject of an agreement between a public prosecutor and a suspect or defendant under Article 350-2.
次に掲げる罪（死刑又は無期拘禁刑に当たるものを除く。）
The Act as amended by the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
第四号施行日
The date the provisions listed in Article 1, item (iv) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Act Partially Amending the Code of Criminal Procedure, etc. (Act No. 54 of 2016) come into effect, a date set by Cabinet Order (政令) within two years of that Act's promulgation (公布, its official publication).
弁護士会
In Article 7, paragraph (3) and Article 8, paragraph (1) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 54 of 2016, the bar association to which, under Article 37-3, paragraph (2) of the Code as amended by Article 2 of that Act, a suspect whose financial resources (資力) reach the base amount (基準額) must first apply under Article 31-2, paragraph (1) for defense counsel before asking a judge to appoint one.
第二条による改正後の法第三十七条の三第二項の規定により第二条による改正後の法第三十一条の二第一項の申出をすべき弁護士会
In Article 5 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 72 of 2017, the Code of Criminal Procedure as amended by Article 4 of those supplementary provisions.
第七十二条第一号を削る改正規定
The part of Article 3 of Act No. 28 of 2023 that amends Article 72 of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act by deleting item (i) and moving items (ii) to (viii) up one place each, which comes into effect on the day 20 days after that Act is promulgated (公布, its official publication).
Short name, used in the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 28 of 2023, for the Special Criminal Act Attendant upon the Enforcement of the "Agreement Regarding the Status of United Nations Forces in Japan" (Act No. 151 of 1954).
Short name, used in the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 28 of 2023, for the Special Criminal Act Attendant upon the Enforcement of the Protocol on the Exercise of Criminal Jurisdiction over United Nations Forces in Japan (Act No. 265 of 1953).
Short name, used in the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 28 of 2023, for the Special Criminal Act Attendant upon the Enforcement of the "Agreement under Article VI of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between Japan and the United States of America regarding Facilities and Areas and the Status of United States Armed Forces in Japan" (Act No. 138 of 1952).
第五号施行日
The date the provisions listed in Article 1, item (v) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Act Partially Amending the Code of Criminal Procedure, etc. (Act No. 28 of 2023) come into effect, a date set by Cabinet Order (政令) within one year of that Act's promulgation (公布, its official publication).
令和四年改正前刑法
In Article 5, paragraph (3) and Article 8, paragraph (6) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 28 of 2023, the Penal Code as it stood before Article 2 of the 2022 Act amending the Penal Code and other laws (刑法等の一部を改正する法律, Act No. 67 of 2022) amended it.
第四百八十九条の二読替適用規定
In Article 8, paragraph (6) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 28 of 2023, the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by Article 1 of that Act, that Article 489-2, paragraph (1) applies with words replaced: Article 98-12, paragraph (5), Article 98-13, paragraph (1), and the parts of Articles 98-14 to 98-17 and 98-20 that paragraph (5) lists.
改正後の刑事訴訟法
In Article 19, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 66 of 2023, the Code of Criminal Procedure as amended by Article 1 of the Act Partially Amending the Code of Criminal Procedure, etc. (Act No. 28 of 2023).
The provisions of each law as amended by Act No. 66 of 2023, an Act amending the Penal Code, together with the provisions of the Act on the Punishment of Acts of Photographing Sexual Poses, etc. and the Erasure, etc. of Electronic or Magnetic Records of Images of Sexual Poses Recorded on Seized Articles (Act No. 67 of 2023).
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 39 of 2025, the Code of Criminal Procedure as it stood before the amendments Article 1 of that Act made to it that come into effect on the date set in Article 1, item (iii) of those supplementary provisions.
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 39 of 2025, the Act on Medical Care and Treatment for Persons Who Have Caused Serious Cases Under the Condition of Insanity (心神喪失等の状態で重大な他害行為を行った者の医療及び観察等に関する法律, Act No. 110 of 2003) as it stood before Article 27 of that Act amended its Article 24, paragraphs (3) and (4), the amendment that comes into effect on the date set in Article 1, item (iii) of those supplementary provisions.
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 39 of 2025, the Act on International Assistance in Investigations (国際捜査共助等に関する法律, Act No. 69 of 1980) as it stood before Article 18 of that Act amended its Article 8, paragraph (2) and Article 12, the amendments that come into effect on the date set in Article 1, item (iii) of those supplementary provisions.
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 39 of 2025, the Juveniles Act as it stood before Article 5 of that Act amended its Articles 6-5 and 15, the amendments that come into effect on the date set in Article 1, item (iii) of those supplementary provisions.
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 39 of 2025, the Act on Punishment of Organized Crimes and Control of Proceeds of Crime (組織的犯罪処罰法, Act No. 136 of 1999) as it stood before the amendments Article 23 of that Act made to it that come into effect on the date set in Article 1, item (iii) of those supplementary provisions.
記録命令付差押え
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 39 of 2025, a seizure with a recording order as defined in Article 99-2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure as it stood before the item (iii) amendments of that Act (第三号改正前刑事訴訟法); where an order for such a seizure was made under that Code, the Juveniles Act or the other laws the article names, as they stood before those amendments, before the date they come into effect, the earlier rules go on applying to the seizure.
第三号改正前刑事訴訟法第九十九条の二に規定する記録命令付差押え
This Act as it stood before Article 2 of Act No. 67 of 2026 amended it.
In Article 6 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 67 of 2026, a ruling under Article 447, paragraph (1) or Article 448, paragraph (1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure as amended by Article 2 of that Act, by which a court that has ruled to commence a hearing on a request for a retrial (再審) dismisses the request as unfounded or rules to commence the retrial.
Short name, in the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 43 of 1999, for the Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs (Act No. 42 of 1999).
被害者等
A victim, or, where the victim has died or has a serious physical or mental disability, the victim's spouse, lineal relative (直系の親族) or brother or sister.
被害者又は被害者が死亡した場合若しくはその心身に重大な故障がある場合におけるその配偶者、直系の親族若しくは兄弟姉妹
被害者参加人
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 95 of 2007, a Participating Victim as defined in Article 316-33, paragraph (3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure as amended by Article 1 of that Act; the Government is to work so that those with few resources can receive a lawyer's legal assistance.
第一条の規定による改正後の刑事訴訟法第三百十六条の三十三第三項に規定する被害者参加人
The date Act No. 61 of 2011, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
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).
In Article 9 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 54 of 2016, recording a suspect's statements in interrogation, and the circumstances in which they are made, on a recording medium by audio and video recording, and using the recording as proof.
取調べにおける被疑者の供述及びその状況を録音及び録画の方法により記録媒体に記録し、並びにこれを立証の用に供すること
In Article 5, paragraph (1) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 72 of 2017, short name for the Act Partially Amending the Code of Criminal Procedure, etc. (Act No. 54 of 2016).
第四号施行日
The date the provisions listed in Article 1, item (iv) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Act Partially Amending the Code of Criminal Procedure, etc. (Act No. 54 of 2016) come into effect, a date set by Cabinet Order (政令) within two years of that Act's promulgation (公布, its official publication).
従前の例による平成二十九年改正前刑法
The Penal Code as it stood before the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code (Act No. 72 of 2017) amended it, where Article 2, paragraph (1) of that Act's supplementary provisions (附則) keeps the earlier rules applying.
Defense counsel, or someone about to become defense counsel at the request of a person entitled to appoint one (a non-lawyer only after court permission under Article 31(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure).
Short name for the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc. (Act No. 45 of 2026).