# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百二十七条 (Article 327) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-327. 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: 第三百二十七条 (Article 327) — address `art-327` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-327 - 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. --- ### 第三百二十七条 art-327 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-327 **第一項** 裁判所は、検察官及び被告人又は弁護人が合意の上、文書の内容又は公判期日に出頭すれば供述することが予想されるその供述の内容を書面に記載して提出したときは、その文書又は供述すべき者を取り調べないでも、その書面を証拠とすることができる。この場合においても、その書面の証明力を争うことを妨げない。 art-327/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-327/par-1 The court may, when the public prosecutor and the defendant or the defense counsel have agreed to write down the content of a certain document or a certain statement that a witness would testify to on the trial date and have submitted such written statement to the court, use it as evidence without examining the original or the witness. However, the probative value of the document may be challenged regardless. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The court may, when the public prosecutor and the accused or the defense counsel have agreed to write down the content of a statement that contain the content of a certain document or a certain statement that a witness would testify to on the trial date and have submitted such written statement to the court, use it as evidence without examining the original or the witness. However, the probative value of the document may be challenged regardless." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第三百二十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-320/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 327, 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