# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百五十条の二十一 (Article 350-21) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-21. 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: 第三百五十条の二十一 (Article 350-21) — address `art-350-21` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-21 - 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. --- ### 第三百五十条の二十一 art-350-21 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-21 **第一項** 裁判長は、即決裁判手続の申立てがあつたときは、検察官及び被告人又は弁護人の意見を聴いた上で、その申立て後（前条第一項に規定する場合においては、同項の同意があつた後）、できる限り早い時期の公判期日を定めなければならない。 art-350-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-21/par-1 When a petition for expedited trial proceedings is filed, the presiding judge must, after hearing the opinions of the public prosecutor and the defendant or the defense counsel, set a trial date after the petition (in the case provided in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, after the consent under the same paragraph is given) as early as possible. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a petition for expedited trial proceedings is filed, the presiding judge must, after hearing the opinions of the public prosecutor and the accused or the defense counsel, set a trial date after the petition (in the case provided in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, after the consent under the same paragraph is given) as early as possible." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb --- ## Cites - art-350-21/par-1: 前条第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十条の二十第一項 (Article 350-20, paragraph (1)), art-350-20/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-20/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 350-21, 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