# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第四百七十五条 (Article 475) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-475. 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: 第四百七十五条 (Article 475) — address `art-475` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-475 - 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. --- ### 第四百七十五条 art-475 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-475 **第一項** 死刑の執行は、法務大臣の命令による。 art-475/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-475/par-1 Execution of the death penalty shall be ordered by the Minister of Justice. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の命令は、判決確定の日から六箇月以内にこれをしなければならない。但し、上訴権回復若しくは再審の請求、非常上告又は恩赦の出願若しくは申出がされその手続が終了するまでの期間及び共同被告人であつた者に対する判決が確定するまでの期間は、これをその期間に算入しない。 art-475/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-475/par-2 The order set forth in the preceding paragraph shall be rendered within six months from the date when the judgment becomes final and binding; provided, however, that, where a request to restore the right to appeal or a request for a retrial, an extraordinary appeal, or an application or request for a pardon is made, the period before these proceedings have finished shall not be included in this period. Neither shall the period before the judgment becomes final and binding for persons who are co-defendants be included in this period. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The order set forth in the preceding paragraph shall be rendered within six months from the date when the judgment becomes final and binding; provided, however, that, where a request to restore the right to appeal or a request for a retrial, an extraordinary appeal, or an application or request for a pardon is made, the period before these proceedings have finished shall not be included in this period. Neither shall the period before the judgment becomes final nor binding for persons who are co-defendants be included in this period." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/tb --- ## Cites - art-475/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百七十五条第一項 (Article 475, paragraph (1)), art-475/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-475/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第四百七十五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-475/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百七十九条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-479/par-4 --- ## 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 475, 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