# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第百八十三条 (Article 183) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-183. 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: 第百八十三条 (Article 183) — address `art-183` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-183 - 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. --- ### 第百八十三条 art-183 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-183 **第一項** 告訴、告発又は請求により公訴の提起があつた事件について被告人が無罪又は免訴の裁判を受けた場合において、告訴人、告発人又は請求人に故意又は重大な過失があつたときは、その者に訴訟費用を負担させることができる。 art-183/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-183/par-1 If the defendant has been acquitted or barred further prosecution in cases where prosecution arose from a criminal complaint, accusation or claim, and if there was intent or gross negligence on the part of the person filing the criminal complaint, accusation or claim, the court may have said person bear court costs. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If the accused has been acquitted or barred further prosecution in cases where prosecution arose from a criminal complaint, accusation or claim, and if there was intent or gross negligence on the part of the person filing the criminal complaint, accusation or claim, the court may have the person who filed said claim bear court costs." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第二項** 告訴、告発又は請求があつた事件について公訴が提起されなかつた場合において、告訴人、告発人又は請求人に故意又は重大な過失があつたときも、前項と同様とする。 art-183/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-183/par-2 The same applies as in the preceding paragraph if prosecution was not instituted with regard to cases where there was a criminal complaint, accusation or claim, and if there was also intent or gross negligence on the part of the person filing the criminal complaint, accusation or claim. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-183/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第百八十三条第一項 (Article 183, paragraph (1)), art-183/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-183/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第百八十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-183/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Code of Criminal Procedure, written 2026-11-06 - 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 (刑事訴訟法), Article 183, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb), 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 - This site's parser, version 225 — 刑事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06