# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第百八十八条の五 (Article 188-5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-5. 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: 第百八十八条の五 (Article 188-5) — address `art-188-5` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-5 - 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. --- ### 第百八十八条の五 art-188-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-5 **第一項** 前条の補償は、被告人又は被告人であつた者の請求により、当該上訴裁判所であつた最高裁判所又は高等裁判所が、決定をもつてこれを行う。 art-188-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-5/par-1 The compensation prescribed in the preceding Article is made by a ruling of the Supreme Court or of the high court as the appellate court of that case, upon the request of the defendant or 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: "The compensation prescribed in the preceding Article is made by a ruling of the Supreme Court or of the high court as the appellate court of that case, upon the request of the accused or the person who was the accused." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第二項** 前項の請求は、当該上訴に係る原裁判が確定した後二箇月以内にこれをしなければならない。 art-188-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-5/par-2 The request prescribed in the preceding paragraph must be made within two months after the original judgment becomes final and binding. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 補償に関する決定で高等裁判所がしたものに対しては、第四百二十八条第二項の異議の申立てをすることができる。この場合には、即時抗告に関する規定をも準用する。 art-188-5/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-5/par-3 The objection prescribed in Article 428, paragraph (2) may be filed against the ruling of compensation made by the high court. The provisions pertaining to an immediate appeal against rulings also apply mutatis mutandis to this case. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-188-5/par-1: 前条 → 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-188-5/par-2: 前項 → 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-188-5/par-3: 第四百二十八条第二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百二十八条第二項 (Article 428, paragraph (2)), art-428/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-428/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 第百八十八条の五第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-5/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 188-5, 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 - This site's parser, version 225 — 刑事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06