Supplementary Provisions, Article 3Expediting of Procedures for Requests for a Retrial, Etc.
第三条（再審の請求の手続の迅速化等）
The procedures for a request for a retrial must be conducted appropriately and promptly, in light of the circumstances in recent years concerning retrial proceedings, so that the goal set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Expediting of Trials (Act No. 107 of 2003) is achieved.
再審の請求の手続については、近年における再審の手続に関する諸事情に鑑み、裁判の迅速化に関する法律（平成十五年法律第百七号）第二条第一項の目標が実現されるよう、適正かつ迅速に行われなければならない。
A person who has made a request for a retrial (excluding a public prosecutor), defense counsel and a public prosecutor must proactively cooperate with the court so that the procedures for a request for a retrial are conducted promptly.
再審の請求をした者（検察官を除く。）、弁護人及び検察官は、再審の請求の手続が迅速に行われるよう、裁判所に進んで協力しなければならない。
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.