# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百六十二条 (Article 362) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-362. 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: 第三百六十二条 (Article 362) — address `art-362` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-362 - 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. --- ### 第三百六十二条 art-362 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-362 **第一項** 第三百五十一条乃至第三百五十五条の規定により上訴をすることができる者は、自己又は代人の責に帰することができない事由によつて上訴の提起期間内に上訴をすることができなかつたときは、原裁判所に上訴権回復の請求をすることができる。 art-362/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-362/par-1 When a person who can appeal pursuant to the provisions of Article 351 through Article 355 was unable to appeal within the period of time in which an appeal could have been filed due to grounds not attributable to him/her or his/her representative, he/she can request the deciding court to restore the right to appeal. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a person who can appeal pursuant to the provisions of Article 351 through Article 355 was unable to appeal due to grounds not attributable to him/her or his/her representative, he/she can request the deciding court to restore the right to appeal during the period of time in which an appeal could have been filed." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/tb --- ## Cites - art-362/par-1: 第三百五十一条乃至第三百五十五条 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十一条 (Article 351), art-351 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-351 - art-362/par-1: 第三百五十一条乃至第三百五十五条 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十二条 (Article 352), art-352 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-352 - art-362/par-1: 第三百五十一条乃至第三百五十五条 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十三条 (Article 353), art-353 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-353 - art-362/par-1: 第三百五十一条乃至第三百五十五条 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十四条 (Article 354), art-354 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-354 - art-362/par-1: 第三百五十一条乃至第三百五十五条 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十五条 (Article 355), art-355 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-355 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第四百六十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-467/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 362, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/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