# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第二百二十七条 (Article 227) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-227. 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: 第二百二十七条 (Article 227) — address `art-227` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-227 - 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. --- ### 第二百二十七条 art-227 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-227 **第一項** 第二百二十三条第一項の規定による検察官、検察事務官又は司法警察職員の取調べに際して任意の供述をした者が、公判期日においては前にした供述と異なる供述をするおそれがあり、かつ、その者の供述が犯罪の証明に欠くことができないと認められる場合には、第一回の公判期日前に限り、検察官は、裁判官にその者の証人尋問を請求することができる。 art-227/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-227/par-1 When a person who has made a voluntary statement to a public prosecutor, a public prosecutor's assistant officer or a judicial police official pursuant to the provisions of Article 223, paragraph (1) is likely to make a statement on the trial date that differs from the previous statement, and the statement of the person is deemed essential in proving a fact constituting the crime, the public prosecutor may, only before the first trial date, request the judge to examine said person as a witness. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の請求をするには、検察官は、証人尋問を必要とする理由及びそれが犯罪の証明に欠くことができないものであることを疎明しなければならない。 art-227/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-227/par-2 When making the request set forth in the preceding paragraph, a public prosecutor must show prima facie evidence of the reasons for the necessity of such examination and that such examination is essential in proving a fact constituting the crime. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-227/par-1: 第二百二十三条第一項 → 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 - art-227/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十七条第一項 (Article 227, paragraph (1)), art-227/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-227/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-227/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-228/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 - This site's parser, version 225 — 刑事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06