# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第二百一条 (Article 201) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-201. 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: 第二百一条 (Article 201) — address `art-201` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-201 - 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. --- ### 第二百一条 art-201 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-201 **第一項** 逮捕状により被疑者を逮捕するには、逮捕状を被疑者に示さなければならない。 art-201/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-201/par-1 If a suspect is arrested through an arrest warrant, the arrest warrant must be shown to the suspect. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第七十三条第三項の規定は、逮捕状により被疑者を逮捕する場合にこれを準用する。 art-201/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-201/par-2 The provisions of Article 73, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to cases where the suspect is arrested through an arrest warrant. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-201/par-2: 第七十三条第三項 → 刑事訴訟法 第七十三条第三項 (Article 73, paragraph (3)), art-73/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-73/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第二百一条の二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-201-2/par-3 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百一条の二第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-201-2/par-4 --- ## Sources - 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 — 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