# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第四百三十六条 (Article 436) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-436. 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: 第四百三十六条 (Article 436) — address `art-436` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-436 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四百三十六条 art-436 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-436 **第一項** 再審の請求は、左の場合において、控訴又は上告を棄却した確定判決に対して、その言渡を受けた者の利益のために、これをすることができる。 art-436/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-436/par-1 A request for a retrial may be filed against a final and binding judgment that dismissed an appeal to the court of second instance or a final appeal, when filed in the interests of the person to whom such judgment was rendered, and when: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 前条第一号又は第二号に規定する事由があるとき。 art-436/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-436/par-1/item-1 There are grounds as prescribed in item (i) or (ii) of the preceding Article; or Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "There are grounds as prescribed in item (i) or (ii) of the preceding Article; or," — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/tb **二** 原判決又はその証拠となつた証拠書類の作成に関与した裁判官について前条第七号に規定する事由があるとき。 art-436/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-436/par-1/item-2 There are grounds as prescribed in item (vii) of the preceding Article, with regard to a judge who participated in the original judgment or drafted documentary evidence which was used in the original judgment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第一審の確定判決に対して再審の請求をした事件について再審の判決があつた後は、控訴棄却の判決に対しては、再審の請求をすることはできない。 art-436/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-436/par-2 After a judgment has been rendered in a case for which a retrial was requested against a final and binding judgment of first instance, no request for retrial may be filed against a judgment to dismiss any appeal to the court of second instance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一審又は第二審の確定判決に対して再審の請求をした事件について再審の判決があつた後は、上告棄却の判決に対しては、再審の請求をすることはできない。 art-436/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-436/par-3 After a judgment has been rendered in a case for which a retrial was requested against a final and binding judgment of first or second instance, no request for retrial may be filed against a judgment to dismiss a final appeal. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-436/par-1/item-1: 前条第一号 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百三十五条第一項第一号 (Article 435, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-435/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-435/par-1/item-1 - art-436/par-1/item-1: 第二号 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百三十五条第一項第二号 (Article 435, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-435/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-435/par-1/item-2 - art-436/par-1/item-2: 前条第七号 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百三十五条第一項第七号 (Article 435, paragraph (1), item (vii)), art-435/par-1/item-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-435/par-1/item-7 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第四百三十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-437/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百三十九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-439/par-2 --- ## 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 436, paragraph (1), item (i) — 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