# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第四百二十八条 (Article 428) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-428. 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: 第四百二十八条 (Article 428) — address `art-428` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-428 - 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. --- ### 第四百二十八条 art-428 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-428 **第一項** 高等裁判所の決定に対しては、抗告をすることはできない。 art-428/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-428/par-1 A kokoku-appeal may not be filed against a high court ruling. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A kokoku-appeal may not be filled against a high court ruling." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/tb **第二項** 即時抗告をすることができる旨の規定がある決定並びに第四百十九条及び第四百二十条の規定により抗告をすることができる決定で高等裁判所がしたものに対しては、その高等裁判所に異議の申立をすることができる。 art-428/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-428/par-2 An objection may be filed with that high court against a high court ruling when there are provisions to the effect that an immediate appeal may be filed or when a kokoku-appeal may be filed pursuant to the provisions of Articles 419 and 420. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "An objection may be filed against a high court ruling when there are provisions to the effect that an immediate appeal may be filed or when a kokoku-appeal may be filed pursuant to the provisions of Articles 419 and 420." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/tb **第三項** 前項の異議の申立に関しては、抗告に関する規定を準用する。即時抗告をすることができる旨の規定がある決定に対する異議の申立に関しては、即時抗告に関する規定をも準用する。 art-428/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-428/par-3 The provisions concerning a kokoku-appeal shall apply mutatis mutandis to an objection as prescribed in the preceding paragraph. The provisions concerning an immediate appeal shall also apply mutatis mutandis to an objection against a ruling for which there are provisions to the effect that an immediate appeal may be filed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-428/par-2: 第四百十九条 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百十九条 (Article 419), art-419 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-419 - art-428/par-2: 第四百二十条 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百二十条 (Article 420), art-420 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-420 - art-428/par-3: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百二十八条第二項 (Article 428, paragraph (2)), art-428/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-428/par-2 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第四十四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-44/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第百八十八条の五第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-188-5/par-3 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百八十五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-385/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百二十八条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-428/par-3 - 刑事訴訟法 附則第六条第一項（再審の請求に係る決定に対する即時抗告等の提起期間に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5081-67/art-6/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 428, 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 428, 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 - 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