# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百十六条の十八 (Article 316-18) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-18. 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: 第三百十六条の十八 (Article 316-18) — address `art-316-18` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-18 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三百十六条の十八 art-316-18 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-18 **第一項** 被告人又は弁護人は、前条第二項の規定により取調べを請求した証拠については、速やかに、検察官に対し、次の各号に掲げる証拠の区分に応じ、当該各号に定める方法による開示をしなければならない。 art-316-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-18/par-1 The defendant or the defense counsel must promptly disclose the evidence which said person has requested to be examined pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article to the public prosecutor by the following means according to each category of evidence: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The accused or the defense counsel must promptly disclose the evidence which said person has requested to be examined pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article to the public prosecutor by the following means according to each category of evidence:" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **一** 証拠書類又は証拠物　当該証拠書類又は証拠物を閲覧し、かつ、謄写する機会を与えること。 art-316-18/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-18/par-1/item-1 in the case of documentary evidence or articles of evidence, an opportunity is given to inspect and copy the documentary evidence or the articles of evidence; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 証人、鑑定人、通訳人又は翻訳人　その氏名及び住居を知る機会を与え、かつ、その者の供述録取書等のうち、その者が公判期日において供述すると思料する内容が明らかになるもの（当該供述録取書等が存在しないとき、又はこれを閲覧させることが相当でないと認めるときにあつては、その者が公判期日において供述すると思料する内容の要旨を記載した書面）を閲覧し、かつ、謄写する機会を与えること。 art-316-18/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-18/par-1/item-2 in the case of a witness, expert witness, interpreter or translator, an opportunity is given to learn of their names and addresses and to inspect and copy their recorded statement documents which reveal the content of that which they are supposed to state on the trial date (documents which contain an outline of the content that they are supposed to state on the trial date when there are no such recorded statement documents or when such materials are deemed inappropriate for inspection). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-316-18/par-1: 前条第二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の十七第二項 (Article 316-17, paragraph (2)), art-316-17/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-17/par-2 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の十九第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-19/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の二十一第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-21/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の二十二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-22/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の二十二第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-22/par-4 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の二十五第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-25/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の二十六第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-26/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 316-18, 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