# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百五十一条 (Article 351) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-351. 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: 第三百五十一条 (Article 351) — address `art-351` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-351 - 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. --- ### 第三百五十一条 art-351 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-351 **第一項** 検察官又は被告人は、上訴をすることができる。 art-351/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-351/par-1 The public prosecutor or the defendant may appeal. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The public prosecutor or the accused may appeal." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/tb **第二項** 第二百六十六条第二号の規定により裁判所の審判に付された事件と他の事件とが併合して審判され、一個の裁判があつた場合には、第二百六十八条第二項の規定により検察官の職務を行う弁護士及び当該他の事件の検察官は、その裁判に対し各々独立して上訴をすることができる。 art-351/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-351/par-2 When a case which has been committed to trial pursuant to the provisions of item (ii) of Article 266 has been tried jointly with other cases and a single decision has been rendered, the attorney who exercises the same function as a public prosecutor pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of Article 268 and the public prosecutor in charge of the other cases may appeal the decision independently. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a case which has been committed to trial pursuant to the provisions of item (ii) of Article 266 has been tried jointly with other cases and a decision has been rendered, the attorney who exercises the same function as a public prosecutor pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 266 and the public prosecutor in charge of the other cases may appeal the decision independently." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/tb --- ## Cites - art-351/par-2: 第二百六十六条第二号 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百六十六条第一項第二号 (Article 266, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-266/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-266/par-1/item-2 - art-351/par-2: 第二百六十八条第二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百六十八条第二項 (Article 268, paragraph (2)), art-268/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-268/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第三百六十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-362/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 351, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/tb), 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 351, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/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