# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百五十条の八 (Article 350-8) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-8. 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: 第三百五十条の八 (Article 350-8) — address `art-350-8` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-8 - 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. --- ### 第三百五十条の八 art-350-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-8 **第一項** 被告人以外の者の供述録取書等であつて、その者が第三百五十条の二第一項の合意に基づいて作成したもの又は同項の合意に基づいてされた供述を録取し若しくは記録したものについて、検察官、被告人若しくは弁護人が取調べを請求し、又は裁判所が職権でこれを取り調べることとしたときは、検察官は、遅滞なく、合意内容書面の取調べを請求しなければならない。この場合においては、前条第二項及び第三項の規定を準用する。 art-350-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-8/par-1 When a public prosecutor, the defendant or the defense counsel requests the examination of the recorded statement documents of a person other than that defendant, which have been prepared by the person based on an agreement under Article 350-2, paragraph (1), or in or on which statements made by the person based on an agreement under the same paragraph have been recorded and taken down in writing or recorded, or a court decides to examine those documents ex officio, the public prosecutor must request the examination of the statement of agreement without delay. In this case, the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a public prosecutor, the accused or the defense counsel requests the examination of the recorded statement documents of a person other than that accused, which have been prepared by the person based on an agreement under Article 350-2, paragraph (1), or in or on which statements made by the person based on an agreement under the same paragraph have been recorded and taken down in writing or recorded, or a court decides to examine those documents ex officio, the public prosecutor must request the examination of the statement of agreement without delay. In this case, the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb --- ## Cites - art-350-8/par-1: 第三百五十条の二第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十条の二第一項 (Article 350-2, paragraph (1)), art-350-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-2/par-1 - art-350-8/par-1: 前条第二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十条の七第二項 (Article 350-7, paragraph (2)), art-350-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-7/par-2 - art-350-8/par-1: 第三項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十条の七第三項 (Article 350-7, paragraph (3)), art-350-7/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-7/par-3 --- ## 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 350-8, 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