# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第二条 (Article 2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-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: 第二条 (Article 2) — address `art-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-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条 art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-2 **第一項** 裁判所の土地管轄は、犯罪地又は被告人の住所、居所若しくは現在地による。 art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-2/par-1 The territorial jurisdiction of courts is determined by the place where the crime was committed, the place where the domicile or the residence of the defendant is located, or the place where the defendant is at present. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The territorial jurisdiction of courts is determined by the place where the crime was committed, the place where the domicile or the residence of the accused is located, or the place where the accused is at present." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第二項** 国外に在る日本船舶内で犯した罪については、前項に規定する地の外、その船舶の船籍の所在地又は犯罪後その船舶の寄泊した地による。 art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-2/par-2 With respect to crimes committed on board a Japanese vessel while outside Japanese territory, the territorial jurisdiction will be determined, in addition to the places prescribed in the preceding paragraph, by the place of the port of registry of such vessel or the place of the port of call after said crime was committed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 国外に在る日本航空機内で犯した罪については、第一項に規定する地の外、犯罪後その航空機の着陸（着水を含む。）した地による。 art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-2/par-3 With respect to crimes committed in a Japanese aircraft while outside Japanese territory, the territorial jurisdiction will be determined, in addition to the places prescribed in paragraph (1), by the place where such aircraft lands (including landing on water) after the crime was committed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-2/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-2/par-1 - art-2/par-3: 第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-2/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-2/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第二条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-2/par-3 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第八十四条の四第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-84-4/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 322AC0000000054) --- ## 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 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 - This site's parser, version 225 — 刑事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06