# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第二百八十九条 (Article 289) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-289. 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: 第二百八十九条 (Article 289) — address `art-289` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-289 - 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. --- ### 第二百八十九条 art-289 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-289 **第一項** 死刑又は無期若しくは長期三年を超える拘禁刑に当たる事件を審理する場合には、弁護人がなければ開廷することはできない。 art-289/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-289/par-1 When a case is punishable by the death penalty, life imprisonment, or imprisonment whose maximum term exceeds three years, the trial may not be convened without the attendance of defense counsel. machine translation, not official **第二項** 弁護人がなければ開廷することができない場合において、弁護人が出頭しないとき若しくは在廷しなくなつたとき、又は弁護人がないときは、裁判長は、職権で弁護人を付さなければならない。 art-289/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-289/par-2 If the court may not be convened without defense counsel, and the defense counsel has not appeared at court or is no longer present in court, or defense counsel has not been appointed, the presiding judge must appoint defense counsel ex officio. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 弁護人がなければ開廷することができない場合において、弁護人が出頭しないおそれがあるときは、裁判所は、職権で弁護人を付することができる。 art-289/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-289/par-3 If the court may not be convened without defense counsel, and there is the risk that the defense counsel will not appear at court, the court may appoint defense counsel ex officio. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の二十九第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-29/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-010, 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