# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百二十八条 (Article 328) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-328. 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: 第三百二十八条 (Article 328) — address `art-328` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-328 - 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. --- ### 第三百二十八条 art-328 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-328 **第一項** 第三百二十一条乃至第三百二十四条の規定により証拠とすることができない書面又は供述であつても、公判準備又は公判期日における被告人、証人その他の者の供述の証明力を争うためには、これを証拠とすることができる。 art-328/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-328/par-1 A document or a statement, which cannot be used as evidence pursuant to the provisions of Articles 321 to 324, may be used to challenge the probative value of the statement of the defendant, the witness or other persons on the trial date or in the trial preparation. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A document or a statement, which cannot be used as evidence pursuant to the provisions of Articles 321 to 324, may be used to challenge the probative value of the statement of the accused, the witness or other persons on the trial date or in the trial preparation." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb --- ## Cites - art-328/par-1: 第三百二十一条乃至第三百二十四条 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百二十一条 (Article 321), art-321 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-321 - art-328/par-1: 第三百二十一条乃至第三百二十四条 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百二十一条の二 (Article 321-2), art-321-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-321-2 - art-328/par-1: 第三百二十一条乃至第三百二十四条 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百二十一条の三 (Article 321-3), art-321-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-321-3 - art-328/par-1: 第三百二十一条乃至第三百二十四条 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百二十二条 (Article 322), art-322 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-322 - art-328/par-1: 第三百二十一条乃至第三百二十四条 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百二十三条 (Article 323), art-323 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-323 - art-328/par-1: 第三百二十一条乃至第三百二十四条 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百二十四条 (Article 324), art-324 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-324 ## 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 328, 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