# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百四十条 (Article 340) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-340. 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: 第三百四十条 (Article 340) — address `art-340` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-340 - 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. --- ### 第三百四十条 art-340 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-340 **第一項** 公訴の取消による公訴棄却の決定が確定したときは、公訴の取消後犯罪事実につきあらたに重要な証拠を発見した場合に限り、同一事件について更に公訴を提起することができる。 art-340/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-340/par-1 When a ruling of dismissal of prosecution based on revocation of the prosecution becomes final and binding, prosecution for the same case may be instituted again only when important new evidence of the facts of the crime is discovered after the revocation. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a ruling of dismissal of prosecution based on revocation of the prosecution becomes final and binding, prosecution for the same case may be instituted again only when there is the new discovery of an important fact." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第三百三十八条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-338/par-1/item-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十条の二十六第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-26/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 340, 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