# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百七十九条 (Article 379) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-379. 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: 第三百七十九条 (Article 379) — address `art-379` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-379 - 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. --- ### 第三百七十九条 art-379 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-379 **第一項** 前二条の場合を除いて、訴訟手続に法令の違反があつてその違反が判決に影響を及ぼすことが明らかであることを理由として控訴の申立をした場合には、控訴趣意書に、訴訟記録及び原裁判所において取り調べた証拠に現われている事実であつて明らかに判決に影響を及ぼすべき法令の違反があることを信ずるに足りるものを援用しなければならない。 art-379/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-379/par-1 Other than the cases set forth in the provisions of the preceding two articles, when an appeal to the court of second instance has been made on the grounds that there was a violation of laws and regulations in the court proceedings and it is clear that that violation has affected the judgment, facts which appear in the case records and evidence examined by the court of first instance which are sufficient to show that there was a violation of laws and regulations which would clearly affect the judgment shall be cited in the statement of the reasons for appeal. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-379/par-1: 前二条 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百七十七条 (Article 377), art-377 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-377 - art-379/par-1: 前二条 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百七十八条 (Article 378), art-378 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-378 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第三百八十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-384/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百八十六条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-386/par-1/item-3 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百九十二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-392/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百九十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-396/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百九十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-397/par-1 --- ## Sources - 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 — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (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 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/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