# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第六十八条 (Article 68) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-68. 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: 第六十八条 (Article 68) — address `art-68` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-68 - 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. --- ### 第六十八条 art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-68 **第一項** 裁判所は、必要があるときは、指定の場所に被告人の出頭又は同行を命ずることができる。被告人が正当な理由がなくこれに応じないときは、その場所に勾引することができる。この場合には、第五十九条の期間は、被告人をその場所に引致した時からこれを起算する。 art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-68/par-1 The court may, when it is necessary, order the defendant to appear at or to be accompanied to a designated place. When the defendant disobeys the order without a justifiable reason, the court may subpoena said person to appear at that place. In this case, calculation of the time period prescribed in Article 59 begins from the time when the defendant is brought to said place. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The court may, when it is necessary, order the accused to appear at or to be accompanied to a designated place. When the accused disobeys the order without a justifiable reason, the court may subpoena said person to appear at that place. In this case, calculation of the time period prescribed in Article 59 begins from the time when the accused is brought to said place." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb --- ## Cites - art-68/par-1: 第五十九条 → 刑事訴訟法 第五十九条 (Article 59), art-59 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-59 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第六十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-69/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十四条の八第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-8/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十四条の十二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-12/par-3 --- ## 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 68, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/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