# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第二百二十六条 (Article 226) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-226. 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: 第二百二十六条 (Article 226) — address `art-226` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-226 - 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. --- ### 第二百二十六条 art-226 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-226 **第一項** 犯罪の捜査に欠くことのできない知識を有すると明らかに認められる者が、第二百二十三条第一項の規定による取調に対して、出頭又は供述を拒んだ場合には、第一回の公判期日前に限り、検察官は、裁判官にその者の証人尋問を請求することができる。 art-226/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-226/par-1 Where a person who apparently possesses information essential to the investigation of a crime refuses to appear or make a statement voluntarily at the interrogation pursuant to the provisions of Article 223, paragraph (1), a public prosecutor may, only before the first trial date, request a judge to examine said person as a witness. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-226/par-1: 第二百二十三条第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十三条第一項 (Article 223, paragraph (1)), art-223/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-223/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-228/par-1 --- ## 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