# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百十九条 (Article 319) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-319. 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: 第三百十九条 (Article 319) — address `art-319` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-319 - 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. --- ### 第三百十九条 art-319 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-319 **第一項** 強制、拷問又は脅迫による自白、不当に長く抑留又は拘禁された後の自白その他任意にされたものでない疑のある自白は、これを証拠とすることができない。 art-319/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-319/par-1 Confession under coercion, torture, threats, after unduly prolonged detention or when there is doubt about said confession being voluntary may not be admitted as evidence. machine translation, not official **第二項** 被告人は、公判廷における自白であると否とを問わず、その自白が自己に不利益な唯一の証拠である場合には、有罪とされない。 art-319/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-319/par-2 The defendant may not be convicted when the confession, whether it was made in open court or not, is the only piece of incriminating evidence. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The accused may not be convicted when the confession, whether it was made in open court or not, is the only piece of incriminating evidence." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第三項** 前二項の自白には、起訴された犯罪について有罪であることを自認する場合を含む。 art-319/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-319/par-3 The confession prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs includes admission of guilt regarding the charged offense. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-319/par-3: 前二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百十九条第一項 (Article 319, paragraph (1)), art-319/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-319/par-1 - art-319/par-3: 前二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百十九条第二項 (Article 319, paragraph (2)), art-319/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-319/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第三百十九条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-319/par-3 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百二十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-322/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 319, paragraph (2) — 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-012, 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