# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第二百十条 (Article 210) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-210. 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: 第二百十条 (Article 210) — address `art-210` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-210 - 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. --- ### 第二百十条 art-210 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-210 **第一項** 検察官、検察事務官又は司法警察職員は、死刑又は無期若しくは長期三年以上の拘禁刑に当たる罪を犯したことを疑うに足りる十分な理由がある場合で、急速を要し、裁判官の逮捕状を求めることができないときは、その理由を告げて被疑者を逮捕することができる。この場合には、直ちに裁判官の逮捕状を求める手続をしなければならない。逮捕状が発せられないときは、直ちに被疑者を釈放しなければならない。 art-210/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-210/par-1 When there are sufficient grounds to suspect that the suspect has committed an offense punishable by the death penalty, imprisonment for life, or imprisonment whose maximum term is three years or more, and in addition, because of urgency an arrest warrant from a judge cannot be obtained, public prosecutors, public prosecutor's assistant officers or judicial police officials may arrest the suspect after notifying the suspect of the reasons therefor. In this case, the procedures for obtaining an arrest warrant from a judge must be taken immediately. Where an arrest warrant is not issued, the suspect must be released immediately. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第二百条の規定は、前項の逮捕状についてこれを準用する。 art-210/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-210/par-2 The provisions of Article 200 apply mutatis mutandis to the arrest warrant set forth in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-210/par-2: 第二百条 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百条 (Article 200), art-200 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-200 - art-210/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百十条第一項 (Article 210, paragraph (1)), art-210/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-210/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第二百十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-210/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-211/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-220/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百八十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-280/par-2 --- ## 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, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, 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