# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百六条 (Article 306) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-306. 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: 第三百六条 (Article 306) — address `art-306` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-306 - 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. --- ### 第三百六条 art-306 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-306 **第一項** 検察官、被告人又は弁護人の請求により、証拠物の取調をするについては、裁判長は、請求をした者をしてこれを示させなければならない。但し、裁判長は、自らこれを示し、又は陪席の裁判官若しくは裁判所書記にこれを示させることができる。 art-306/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-306/par-1 When examining material evidence upon the request of the public prosecutor, the defendant or the defense counsel, the presiding judge must order the person who has made that request to display it; provided however, that the presiding judge may personally display the evidence, or order an associate judge or court clerk to do so. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When examining material evidence upon the request of the public prosecutor, the accused or the defense counsel, the presiding judge must order the person who has made that request to display it; provided however, that the presiding judge may personally display the evidence, or order an associate judge or court clerk to do so." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第二項** 裁判所が職権で証拠物の取調をするについては、裁判長は、自らこれを訴訟関係人に示し、又は陪席の裁判官若しくは裁判所書記にこれを示させなければならない。 art-306/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-306/par-2 When examining material evidence ex officio, the presiding judge must personally display the evidence to the persons concerned in the case or order an associate judge or court clerk to do so. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第三百七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-307/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百七条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-307-3/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十条の二十四第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-24/par-1 --- ## 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 306, 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