# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第百八十八条の二 (Article 188-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-2. 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: 第百八十八条の二 (Article 188-2) — address `art-188-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-2 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百八十八条の二 art-188-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-2 **第一項** 無罪の判決が確定したときは、国は、当該事件の被告人であつた者に対し、その裁判に要した費用の補償をする。ただし、被告人であつた者の責めに帰すべき事由によつて生じた費用については、補償をしないことができる。 art-188-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-2/par-1 When an acquittal becomes final and binding, the State compensates the person who was the defendant in the case for the expenses which were needed for the trial; provided however, that the State may not be required to compensate expenses which arose from a cause imputable to the person who was the defendant. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When an acquittal becomes final and binding, the State compensates the person who was the accused in the case for the expenses which were needed for the trial; provided however, that the State may not be required to compensate expenses which arose from a cause imputable to the person who was the accused." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第二項** 前項に定めるもののほか、再審開始の決定が確定した事件について、無罪の判決が確定したときは、国は、当該再審開始の決定に係る再審の請求をした者（検察官を除く。以下この章において「開始決定再審請求者」という。）に対し、その再審の請求の手続に要した費用の補償をする。ただし、開始決定再審請求者の責めに帰すべき事由によつて生じた費用については、補償をしないことができる。 art-188-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-2/par-2 In addition to what is prescribed in the preceding paragraph, when an acquittal becomes final and binding in a case in which a ruling to commence a retrial has become final and binding, the State compensates the person who made the request for a retrial pertaining to that ruling to commence a retrial (excluding a public prosecutor; hereinafter referred to as the "requester of a commenced retrial" in this Chapter) for the expenses which were needed for the procedures for the request for a retrial; provided however, that the State may not be required to compensate expenses which arose from a cause imputable to the requester of a commenced retrial. machine translation, not official **第三項** 被告人であつた者又は開始決定再審請求者が、捜査又は審判を誤らせる目的で、虚偽の自白若しくは供述をし、又は他の有罪の証拠を作ることにより、被告人であつた者が公訴の提起を受けるに至つたものと認められるときは、前二項の補償の全部又は一部をしないことができる。 art-188-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-2/par-3 When it is deemed that the person who was the defendant or the requester of a commenced retrial made a false confession or statement, or fabricated other evidence of guilt, for the purpose of misleading the investigation or the trial, which subsequently led to prosecution being instituted against the person who was the defendant, the State may not be required to compensate all or part of the expenses prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs. machine translation, not official **第四項** 第百八十八条の五第一項の規定による補償の請求がされている場合には、第百八十八条の四の規定により補償される費用については、第一項の補償をしない。 art-188-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-2/par-4 When compensation in accordance with the provisions of Article 188-5, paragraph (1) is requested, the State does not compensate the expenses that will be compensated by the provisions of Article 188-4 as prescribed in paragraph (1) of this Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-188-2/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第百八十八条の二第一項 (Article 188-2, paragraph (1)), art-188-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-2/par-1 - art-188-2/par-3: 前二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第百八十八条の二第一項 (Article 188-2, paragraph (1)), art-188-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-2/par-1 - art-188-2/par-3: 前二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第百八十八条の二第二項 (Article 188-2, paragraph (2)), art-188-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-2/par-2 - art-188-2/par-4: 第百八十八条の五第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第百八十八条の五第一項 (Article 188-5, paragraph (1)), art-188-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-5/par-1 - art-188-2/par-4: 第百八十八条の四 → 刑事訴訟法 第百八十八条の四 (Article 188-4), art-188-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-4 - art-188-2/par-4: 第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第百八十八条の二第一項 (Article 188-2, paragraph (1)), art-188-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-2/par-1 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第百八十八条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-2/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第百八十八条の二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-2/par-3 - 刑事訴訟法 第百八十八条の二第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-2/par-4 - 刑事訴訟法 第百八十八条の三第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-3/par-1/item-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第百八十八条の三第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-3/par-1/item-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第百八十八条の六第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-6/par-1/item-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第百八十八条の六第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-6/par-1/item-2 - 刑事訴訟法 附則第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-3511-23/par-3 - 刑事訴訟法 附則第七条第一項（再審請求手続に関する費用補償に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5081-67/art-7/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 188-2, paragraph (1) — 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-005, translated 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