# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第二百条 (Article 200) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-200. 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: 第二百条 (Article 200) — address `art-200` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-200 - 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. --- ### 第二百条 art-200 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-200 **第一項** 逮捕状には、被疑者の氏名及び住居、罪名、被疑事実の要旨、引致すべき官公署その他の場所、有効期間及びその期間経過後は逮捕をすることができず令状はこれを返還しなければならない旨並びに発付の年月日その他裁判所の規則で定める事項を記載し、裁判官が、これに記名押印しなければならない。 art-200/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-200/par-1 Arrest warrants must contain the name and residence of the suspect, the charged offense, an outline of the alleged facts of the crime, the public office or other place where the suspect is to be brought, the period of validity and a statement that after expiry of the period of validity the arrest warrant may not be executed but must be returned, the date of issue, and other particulars as prescribed in the Rules of Court; and the judge must affix their name and seal to it. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第六十四条第二項及び第三項の規定は、逮捕状についてこれを準用する。 art-200/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-200/par-2 The provisions of Article 64, paragraphs (2) and (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the arrest warrant. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-200/par-2: 第六十四条第二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第六十四条第二項 (Article 64, paragraph (2)), art-64/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-64/par-2 - art-200/par-2: 第三項 → 刑事訴訟法 第六十四条第三項 (Article 64, paragraph (3)), art-64/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-64/par-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第二百十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-210/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 - This site's parser, version 225 — 刑事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06