# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第二百五十五条 (Article 255) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-255. 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: 第二百五十五条 (Article 255) — address `art-255` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-255 - 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. --- ### 第二百五十五条 art-255 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-255 **第一項** 犯人が国外にいる場合又は犯人が逃げ隠れているため有効に起訴状の謄本の送達若しくは略式命令の告知ができなかつた場合には、時効は、その国外にいる期間又は逃げ隠れている期間その進行を停止する。 art-255/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-255/par-1 If an offender is outside Japan or said offender is in hiding, making it impossible to serve a transcript of the charging sheet or notify the summary order, the statute of limitations is suspended during the period when the offender is outside Japan or is in hiding. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If an offender is outside Japan or said offender is in hiding, making it is impossible to serve a transcript of the charging sheet or notify the summary order, the statute of limitations is suspended during the period when the offender is outside Japan or is in hiding." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第二項** 犯人が国外にいること又は犯人が逃げ隠れているため有効に起訴状の謄本の送達若しくは略式命令の告知ができなかつたことの証明に必要な事項は、裁判所の規則でこれを定める。 art-255/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-255/par-2 Provisions are laid down in the Rules of Court for the particulars necessary in proving the absence of the offender from Japan or said offender being in hiding, which made the service of the transcript of charging sheet or notification of the summary order impossible. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第二百七十一条の二第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-271-2/par-4 --- ## 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 255, 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