# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第四百十一条 (Article 411) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-411. 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: 第四百十一条 (Article 411) — address `art-411` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-411 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四百十一条 art-411 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-411 **第一項** 上告裁判所は、第四百五条各号に規定する事由がない場合であつても、左の事由があつて原判決を破棄しなければ著しく正義に反すると認めるときは、判決で原判決を破棄することができる。 art-411/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-411/par-1 Even in absence of grounds as prescribed in the items of Article 405, the final appellate court may render a judgment to reverse the judgment of the court of first or second instance, on any of the following grounds when it deems that not doing so would clearly be contrary to justice: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 判決に影響を及ぼすべき法令の違反があること。 art-411/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-411/par-1/item-1 There is a violation of laws and regulations which would have affected the judgment; Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "There is a violation of laws and regulations which would have affected the judgment." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/tb **二** 刑の量定が甚しく不当であること。 art-411/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-411/par-1/item-2 The degree of punishment is seriously unfair; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 判決に影響を及ぼすべき重大な事実の誤認があること。 art-411/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-411/par-1/item-3 There is an erroneous finding of a material fact which would have affected the judgment; Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "There is an erroneous finding of a material fact which would have affected the judgment.;" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/tb **四** 再審の請求をすることができる場合にあたる事由があること。 art-411/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-411/par-1/item-4 There are grounds to request a retrial; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **五** 判決があつた後に刑の廃止若しくは変更又は大赦があつたこと。 art-411/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-411/par-1/item-5 There was abolition or a change of punishment or a general pardon was granted after the judgment was rendered. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-411/par-1: 第四百五条 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百五条 (Article 405), art-405 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-405 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第四百十三条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-413-2/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 411, paragraph (1), item (i) — 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 (刑事訴訟法), Article 411, paragraph (1), item (iii) — 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