# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第五十三条 (Article 53) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-53. 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: 第五十三条 (Article 53) — address `art-53` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-53 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十三条 art-53 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-53 **第一項** 何人も、被告事件の終結後、訴訟記録を閲覧することができる。但し、訴訟記録の保存又は裁判所若しくは検察庁の事務に支障のあるときは、この限りでない。 art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-53/par-1 Any person may inspect case records after conclusion of a case; provided however, that this does not apply when such inspection interferes with the preservation of the case records or the business of the court or the public prosecutor's office. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 弁論の公開を禁止した事件の訴訟記録又は一般の閲覧に適しないものとしてその閲覧が禁止された訴訟記録は、前項の規定にかかわらず、訴訟関係人又は閲覧につき正当な理由があつて特に訴訟記録の保管者の許可を受けた者でなければ、これを閲覧することができない。 art-53/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-53/par-2 Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, only persons concerned in a case or persons who have justifiable reason and have been specially granted permission by the custodian may inspect the case records in which a prohibition has been imposed on the oral arguments being made open to the public or on case records being inspected owing to the inappropriateness of inspection by the public. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 日本国憲法第八十二条第二項但書に掲げる事件については、閲覧を禁止することはできない。 art-53/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-53/par-3 With regard to the cases prescribed in the proviso to Article 82, paragraph (2) of the Constitution of Japan, case records may not be prohibited for inspection. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "With regard to the cases prescribed in the provisions of Article 82, paragraph (2) of the Constitution of Japan, case records may not be prohibited for inspection." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第四項** 訴訟記録の保管及びその閲覧の手数料については、別に法律でこれを定める。 art-53/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-53/par-4 Particulars concerning the keeping of case records and fees for inspection of case records are provided by other acts. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-53/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第五十三条第一項 (Article 53, paragraph (1)), art-53/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-53/par-1 - art-53/par-3: 日本国憲法第八十二条第二項 → 日本国憲法 第八十二条第二項 (Article 82, paragraph (2)), art-82/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/constitution/art-82/par-2 (e-Gov law ID 321CONSTITUTION) ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第五十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-53/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 53, paragraph (3) — 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