# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百七十八条 (Article 378) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-378. 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: 第三百七十八条 (Article 378) — address `art-378` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-378 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三百七十八条 art-378 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-378 **第一項** 左の事由があることを理由として控訴の申立をした場合には、控訴趣意書に、訴訟記録及び原裁判所において取り調べた証拠に現われている事実であつてその事由があることを信ずるに足りるものを援用しなければならない。 art-378/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-378/par-1 When an appeal to the court of second instance has been filed based on any of the grounds listed in the following items, facts which appear in the case records and evidence examined by the court of first instance which are sufficient to show the existence of the grounds in the item shall be cited in the statement of the reasons for appeal: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 不法に管轄又は管轄違を認めたこと。 art-378/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-378/par-1/item-1 The court unlawfully found jurisdiction or lack of jurisdiction; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 不法に、公訴を受理し、又はこれを棄却したこと。 art-378/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-378/par-1/item-2 The court unlawfully accepted or dismissed prosecution; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 審判の請求を受けた事件について判決をせず、又は審判の請求を受けない事件について判決をしたこと。 art-378/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-378/par-1/item-3 The court did not reach a judgment in a case for which a trial had been requested, or did reach a judgment in a case for which a trial had not been requested; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 判決に理由を附せず、又は理由にくいちがいがあること。 art-378/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-378/par-1/item-4 The judgment stated no reasons, or there was a discrepancy in its reasons. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The judgment was groundless, or there was a discrepancy regarding its grounds." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/tb ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第三百七十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-379/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百八十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-384/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百八十六条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-386/par-1/item-3 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百九十二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-392/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百九十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-396/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百九十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-397/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 378, paragraph (1), item (iv) — 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Criminal Procedure — Ministry of Justice translation (part 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/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