# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百五十条の四 (Article 350-4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-4. 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: 第三百五十条の四 (Article 350-4) — address `art-350-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-4 - 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. --- ### 第三百五十条の四 art-350-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-4 **第一項** 第三百五十条の二第一項の合意をするため必要な協議は、検察官と被疑者又は被告人及び弁護人との間で行うものとする。ただし、被疑者又は被告人及び弁護人に異議がないときは、協議の一部を弁護人のみとの間で行うことができる。 art-350-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-4/par-1 The necessary consultation to make an agreement under Article 350-2, paragraph (1) shall be held between a public prosecutor, and a suspect or the defendant and the defense counsel; provided, however, that when the suspect or defendant and the defense counsel do not raise an objection, the public prosecutor may consult only with the defense counsel in part. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The necessary consultation to make an agreement under Article 350-2, paragraph (1) shall be held between a public prosecutor, and a suspect or the accused and the defense counsel; provided, however, that when the suspect or accused and the defense counsel do not raise an objection, the public prosecutor may consult only with the defense counsel in part." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb --- ## Cites - art-350-4/par-1: 第三百五十条の二第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十条の二第一項 (Article 350-2, paragraph (1)), art-350-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-2/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十条の五第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-5/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十条の五第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-5/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十条の六第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-6/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十条の六第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-6/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十条の十第一項第三号イ — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-10/par-1/item-3/sub-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十条の十二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-12/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十条の十四第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-14/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 350-4, 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