# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第二百八条 (Article 208) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-208. 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: 第二百八条 (Article 208) — address `art-208` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-208 - 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. --- ### 第二百八条 art-208 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-208 **第一項** 第二百七条の規定により被疑者を勾留した事件につき、勾留の請求をした日から十日以内に公訴を提起しないときは、検察官は、直ちに被疑者を釈放しなければならない。 art-208/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-208/par-1 When a public prosecutor has not instituted prosecution against a suspect regarding a case in which the suspect was detained pursuant to the provisions of Article 207 within ten days of the request for detention, said prosecutor must immediately release the suspect. machine translation, not official **第二項** 裁判官は、やむを得ない事由があると認めるときは、検察官の請求により、前項の期間を延長することができる。この期間の延長は、通じて十日を超えることができない。 art-208/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-208/par-2 When a judge deems unavoidable circumstances to exist, said judge may extend the time period set forth in the preceding paragraph upon the request of a public prosecutor. The total period of such extensions must not exceed ten days. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-208/par-1: 第二百七条 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百七条 (Article 207), art-207 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-207 - art-208/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百八条第一項 (Article 208, paragraph (1)), art-208/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-208/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第二百八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-208/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百八条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-208-2/par-1 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-006, 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