# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百八十一条 (Article 381) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-381. 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: 第三百八十一条 (Article 381) — address `art-381` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-381 - 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. --- ### 第三百八十一条 art-381 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-381 **第一項** 刑の量定が不当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刑の量定が不当で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-381/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-381/par-1 When an appeal to the court of second instance has been made on the grounds that a sentence is unreasonable, facts which appear in the case records and evidence examined by the court of first instance which are sufficient to show that the sentence is unreasonable shall be cited in the statement of the reasons for appeal. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第三百八十二条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-382-2/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百八十二条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-382-2/par-2 - 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