# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第八十三条 (Article 83) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-83. 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: 第八十三条 (Article 83) — address `art-83` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-83 - 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. --- ### 第八十三条 art-83 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-83 **第一項** 勾留の理由の開示は、公開の法廷でこれをしなければならない。 art-83/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-83/par-1 Grounds for detention must be disclosed in an open court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 法廷は、裁判官及び裁判所書記が列席してこれを開く。 art-83/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-83/par-2 The court is convened in the presence of a judge and a court clerk. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 被告人及びその弁護人が出頭しないときは、開廷することはできない。但し、被告人の出頭については、被告人が病気その他やむを得ない事由によつて出頭することができず且つ被告人に異議がないとき、弁護人の出頭については、被告人に異議がないときは、この限りでない。 art-83/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-83/par-3 The court may not be convened without the presence of the defendant and the defense counsel of the defendant; provided however, that this does not apply when the defendant cannot personally attend the court because of illness or other unavoidable reasons and has no objection, or when the defendant has no objection to defense counsel not appearing. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The court may not be convened without the presence of the accused and the defense counsel of the accused; provided however, that this does not apply when the accused cannot personally attend the court because of illness or other unavoidable reasons and has no objection, or when the accused has no objection to defense counsel not appearing." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 --- ## 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 83, paragraph (3) — 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