# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百七条の二 (Article 307-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-307-2. 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: 第三百七条の二 (Article 307-2) — address `art-307-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-307-2 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三百七条の二 art-307-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-307-2 **第一項** 検察官、被告人又は弁護人の請求により、電磁的記録の取調べをするについては、裁判長は、証拠となる事項に応じ、その取調べを請求した者に、その内容を朗読させ、表示させ、又は再生させなければならない。ただし、裁判長は、自らこれらの措置をとり、又は陪席の裁判官若しくは裁判所書記官にこれらの措置をとらせることができる。 art-307-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-307-2/par-1 When a court examines electronic or magnetic records upon request from a public prosecutor, the defendant or the defense counsel, the presiding judge must, depending on the matters that are to constitute evidence, order the person who has made the request for the examination to read the content aloud, display it or play it back; provided, however, that the presiding judge may personally take these measures, or have an associate judge or a court clerk take them. machine translation, not official **第二項** 裁判所が職権で電磁的記録の取調べをするについては、裁判長は、自ら前項に規定する措置をとり、又は陪席の裁判官若しくは裁判所書記官にこれらの措置をとらせなければならない。 art-307-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-307-2/par-2 When a court examines electronic or magnetic records ex officio, the presiding judge must personally take the measures prescribed in the preceding paragraph, or have an associate judge or a court clerk take these measures. machine translation, not official **第三項** 第三百五条第三項及び第四項の規定は、前二項の規定による措置について準用する。 art-307-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-307-2/par-3 The provisions of Article 305, paragraphs (3) and (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the measures under the preceding two paragraphs. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-307-2/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百七条の二第一項 (Article 307-2, paragraph (1)), art-307-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-307-2/par-1 - art-307-2/par-3: 第三百五条第三項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百五条第三項 (Article 305, paragraph (3)), art-305/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-305/par-3 - art-307-2/par-3: 第四項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百五条第四項 (Article 305, paragraph (4)), art-305/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-305/par-4 - art-307-2/par-3: 前二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百七条の二第一項 (Article 307-2, paragraph (1)), art-307-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-307-2/par-1 - art-307-2/par-3: 前二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百七条の二第二項 (Article 307-2, paragraph (2)), art-307-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-307-2/par-2 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不正競争防止法 第二十八条第一項（証拠書類の朗読方法の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-28/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 405AC0000000047) - 刑事訴訟法 第三百七条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-307-2/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百七条の二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-307-2/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 - 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-011, translated 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