# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第百七十八条 (Article 178) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-178. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 刑事訴訟法 (Code of Criminal Procedure), 昭和二十三年法律第百三十一号 - English title "Code of Criminal Procedure": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第百七十八条 (Article 178) — address `art-178` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-178 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百七十八条 art-178 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-178 **第一項** 前章の規定は、通訳及び翻訳について準用する。この場合において、第百七十一条において準用する第百五十七条の六第二項中「場合において、次に掲げる場合であつて」とあるのは「場合において」と、「方法に」とあるのは「方法（当該方法による通訳又は翻訳が著しく困難であるときにあつては、音声の送受信により同時に通話をすることができる方法）に」と読み替えるものとする。 art-178/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-178/par-1 The provisions of the preceding Chapter apply mutatis mutandis to interpretation and translation. In this case, in Article 157-6, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 171, the phrase "when a court finds it appropriate in the following cases" is deemed to be replaced with "when a court finds it appropriate", and the phrase "means that allows the recognition of each other's presence and communication through the transmission of images and sound" is deemed to be replaced with "means that allows the recognition of each other's presence and communication through the transmission of images and sound (or, where interpretation or translation by that means is extremely difficult, means that allows simultaneous communication through the transmission of sound)". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-178/par-1: 第百七十一条 → 刑事訴訟法 第百七十一条 (Article 171), art-171 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-171 - art-178/par-1: 第百五十七条の六第二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第百五十七条の六第二項 (Article 157-6, paragraph (2)), art-157-6/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-157-6/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 刑事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-10-20 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000131/20261020_508AC0000000067), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Criminal Procedure — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb), retrieved 2026-11-06 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-005, translated 2026-11-06 - This site's parser, version 225 — 刑事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06