# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第二百九十七条 (Article 297) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-297. 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: 第二百九十七条 (Article 297) — address `art-297` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-297 - 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. --- ### 第二百九十七条 art-297 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-297 **第一項** 裁判所は、検察官及び被告人又は弁護人の意見を聴き、証拠調の範囲、順序及び方法を定めることができる。 art-297/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-297/par-1 The court may, upon hearing the opinions of the public prosecutor and the defendant or the defense counsel, determine the scope, order and method of the examination of evidence. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The court may, upon hearing the opinions of the public prosecutor and the accused or the defense counsel, determine the scope, order and method of the examination of evidence." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第二項** 前項の手続は、合議体の構成員にこれをさせることができる。 art-297/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-297/par-2 The court may have one of its collegiate members carry out the proceeding prescribed in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 裁判所は、適当と認めるときは、何時でも、検察官及び被告人又は弁護人の意見を聴き、第一項の規定により定めた証拠調の範囲、順序又は方法を変更することができる。 art-297/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-297/par-3 The court may, at any time when it finds appropriate, upon hearing the opinions of the public prosecutor and the defendant or the defense counsel, change the scope, order or method of the examination of evidence determined pursuant to paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The court may, at any time when it finds appropriate, upon hearing the opinions of the public prosecutor and the accused or the defense counsel, change the scope, order or method of the examination of evidence determined pursuant to paragraph (1)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb --- ## Cites - art-297/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百九十七条第一項 (Article 297, paragraph (1)), art-297/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-297/par-1 - art-297/par-3: 第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百九十七条第一項 (Article 297, paragraph (1)), art-297/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-297/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第二百九十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-297/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百九十七条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-297/par-3 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百七条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-307-3/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十条の二十四第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-24/par-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 297, 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 297, paragraph (3) — 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