# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第二百二十八条 (Article 228) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-228. 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: 第二百二十八条 (Article 228) — address `art-228` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-228 - 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. --- ### 第二百二十八条 art-228 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-228 **第一項** 前二条の請求を受けた裁判官は、証人の尋問に関し、裁判所又は裁判長と同一の権限を有する。 art-228/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-228/par-1 A judge who receives the request set forth in the preceding two Articles has the same authority as a court or a presiding judge with regard to the examination of the witness. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A judge who receives the request set forth in the preceding two Articles has the same authority as a court or a presiding judge." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第二項** 裁判官は、捜査に支障を生ずる虞がないと認めるときは、被告人、被疑者又は弁護人を前項の尋問に立ち会わせることができる。 art-228/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-228/par-2 The judge may, if said judge deems there is no fear of interference with the criminal investigation, have the defendant, the suspect or the defense counsel be present at the examination set forth in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The judge may, if said judge deems there is no fear of interference with the criminal investigation, have the accused, the suspect or the defense counsel be present at the examination set forth in the preceding paragraph." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb --- ## Cites - art-228/par-1: 前二条 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十六条 (Article 226), art-226 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-226 - art-228/par-1: 前二条 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十七条 (Article 227), art-227 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-227 - art-228/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十八条第一項 (Article 228, paragraph (1)), art-228/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-228/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-228/par-2 --- ## 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 228, 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 (刑事訴訟法), Article 228, paragraph (2) — 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