# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第二百二十三条 (Article 223) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-223. 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: 第二百二十三条 (Article 223) — address `art-223` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-223 - 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. --- ### 第二百二十三条 art-223 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-223 **第一項** 検察官、検察事務官又は司法警察職員は、犯罪の捜査をするについて必要があるときは、被疑者以外の者の出頭を求め、これを取り調べ、又はこれに鑑定、通訳若しくは翻訳を嘱託することができる。 art-223/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-223/par-1 Public prosecutors, public prosecutor's assistant officers or judicial police officials may ask any person other than a suspect to appear in their office, interrogate said person or request said person to conduct an expert examination, translate or interpret if it is necessary for the investigation of a crime. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Public prosecutors, public prosecutor's assistant officers or judicial police officials may ask any person other than a suspect to appear in their office, interrogate said person or request said person to be examined, translate or interpret if it is necessary for the investigation of a crime." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第二項** 第百九十八条第一項但書及び第三項乃至第五項の規定は、前項の場合にこれを準用する。 art-223/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-223/par-2 The proviso of Article 198, paragraph (1) and the provisions of paragraphs (3) to (5) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to the case set forth in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-223/par-2: 第百九十八条第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第百九十八条第一項 (Article 198, paragraph (1)), art-198/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-198/par-1 - art-223/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十三条第一項 (Article 223, paragraph (1)), art-223/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-223/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-223/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-224/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-225/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-226/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-227/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十条の二第一項第一号イ — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-2/par-1/item-1/sub-1 --- ## 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 223, 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