If the Supreme Court is the court with which the final appeal should be filed, it may rule, upon petition, to accept as the final appellate court, a case in which a prior instance judgment reflects a determination that conflicts with Supreme Court precedent (or, if there is no Supreme Court precedent, conflicts with precedent of the former Great Court of Cassation or precedent of the high court acting as the final appellate court or the court of second instance) or to accept any other case that is found to involve matters of material import in the interpretation of laws and regulations.
上告をすべき裁判所が最高裁判所である場合には、最高裁判所は、原判決に最高裁判所の判例（これがない場合にあっては、大審院又は上告裁判所若しくは控訴裁判所である高等裁判所の判例）と相反する判断がある事件その他の法令の解釈に関する重要な事項を含むものと認められる事件について、申立てにより、決定で、上告審として事件を受理することができる。
A petition as referred to in the preceding paragraph (referred to below as a "petition to accept a final appeal") may not give circumstances prescribed in Article 312, paragraphs (1) and (2) as the grounds for petition.
In a case as referred to in paragraph (1), the Supreme Court may exclude any grounds for petition to accept a final appeal that it finds to be immaterial.
If a ruling as referred to paragraph (1) is issued, a final appeal is deemed to have been filed. To apply the provisions of Article 320 in such a case, grounds for petition to accept a final appeal other than those excluded pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph are deemed to be the grounds for the final appeal.
The provisions of Articles 313 through 315 and Article 316, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to a petition to accept a final appeal.
第三百十三条から第三百十五条まで及び第三百十六条第一項の規定は、上告受理の申立てについて準用する。