# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第四百条 (Article 400) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-400. 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: 第四百条 (Article 400) — address `art-400` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-400 - 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. --- ### 第四百条 art-400 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-400 **第一項** 前二条に規定する理由以外の理由によつて原判決を破棄するときは、判決で、事件を原裁判所に差し戻し、又は原裁判所と同等の他の裁判所に移送しなければならない。但し、控訴裁判所は、訴訟記録並びに原裁判所及び控訴裁判所において取り調べた証拠によつて、直ちに判決をすることができるものと認めるときは、被告事件について更に判決をすることができる。 art-400/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-400/par-1 When the court of second instance reverses the judgment of the court of first instance on grounds other than those set forth in the preceding two articles, a judgment shall be rendered to remand the case to the court of first instance, or to transfer the case to a court which is equal to the court of first instance; provided, however, that the court of second instance may render an additional judgment on the case when it finds it possible to do so based on the case records and the evidence examined by the court of first and second instances. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When the court of second instance reverses the judgment of the court of first instance on grounds other than those set forth in the preceding two articles, a judgment shall be rendered to remand the case to the court of first instance, or to transfer the case to a court which is equal to the court of first instance; provided, however, that the court of second instance may render an additional judgment on the case when it finds that it possible to do so based on the case records and the evidence examined by the court of first and second instances." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/tb --- ## Cites - art-400/par-1: 前二条 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百九十八条 (Article 398), art-398 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-398 - art-400/par-1: 前二条 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百九十九条 (Article 399), art-399 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-399 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第二十条第一項第七号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-20/par-1/item-7 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百三条の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-403-3/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百三条の四第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-403-4/par-2 --- ## 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 400, 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