# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第百八十八条の七 (Article 188-7)

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- 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: 第百八十八条の七 (Article 188-7) — address `art-188-7`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-20
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### 第百八十八条の七
<sup>art-188-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-7</sup>

  **第一項**  補償の請求その他補償に関する手続、補償と他の法律による損害賠償との関係、補償を受ける権利の譲渡又は差押え及び被告人若しくは被告人であつた者又は開始決定再審請求者の相続人に対する補償については、この法律に特別の定めがある場合のほか、刑事補償法（昭和二十五年法律第一号）第一条に規定する補償の例による。
  <sup>art-188-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-7/par-1</sup>
  Requests and other procedures concerning compensation, the correlation between compensation and compensation for damages provided for by other acts, the assignment or the seizure of the right to receive compensation, and compensation towards the heirs of the defendant, the person who was the defendant, or the requester of a commenced retrial follow the example of the compensation prescribed in Article 1 of the Criminal Compensation Act (Act No. 1 of 1950), except as otherwise specially provided in this Code.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-188-7/par-1: 刑事補償法（昭和二十五年法律第一号）第一条 → e-Gov law 325AC0000000001, 第一条 (Article 1), art-1 — not held in this collection

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## 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