# 少年法 / Juveniles Act — 第六十八条 (Article 68) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-68. 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: 少年法 (Juveniles Act), 昭和二十三年法律第百六十八号 - English title "Juveniles Act": 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: 第六十八条 (Article 68) — address `art-68` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-68 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-68 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs 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. --- ### 第六十八条 art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-68 **第一項** 第六十一条の規定は、特定少年のとき犯した罪により公訴を提起された場合における同条の記事又は写真については、適用しない。ただし、当該罪に係る事件について刑事訴訟法第四百六十一条の請求がされた場合（同法第四百六十三条第一項若しくは第二項又は第四百六十八条第二項の規定により通常の規定に従い審判をすることとなつた場合を除く。）は、この限りでない。 art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-68/par-1 The provisions of Article 61 do not apply to any news article or photograph referred to in that Article for cases in which a prosecution is brought for a crime committed by a specified juvenile; provided, however, that this does not apply if the request referred to in Article 461 of the Code of Criminal Procedure is filed for the case of that crime (except when the case is tried based on regular provisions pursuant to the provisions of Article 463, paragraph (1) or (2), or Article 468, paragraph (2) of that Code). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-68/par-1: 第六十一条 → 少年法 第六十一条 (Article 61), art-61 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-61 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-61 - art-68/par-1: 刑事訴訟法第四百六十一条 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000131, 第四百六十一条 (Article 461), art-461 — not held in this collection - art-68/par-1: 同法第四百六十三条第一項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000131, 第四百六十三条第一項 (Article 463, paragraph (1)), art-463/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-68/par-1: 第二項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000131, 第四百六十三条第二項 (Article 463, paragraph (2)), art-463/par-2 — not held in this collection - art-68/par-1: 第四百六十八条第二項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000131, 第四百六十八条第二項 (Article 468, paragraph (2)), art-468/par-2 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 少年法 附則第七条第一項（記事等の掲載の禁止に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/suppl-5031-47/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/suppl-5031-47/art-7/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 少年法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000168/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Juveniles Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4827/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 220 — 少年法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02