# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5051-66/art-20. 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: 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20)（検討等） — address `suppl-5051-66/art-20` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5051-66/art-20 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十条（検討等） — Review, Etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5051-66/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5051-66/art-20 **第一項** 政府は、性的な被害に係る犯罪規定が社会の受け止め方を踏まえて処罰対象を適切に決すべきものであるという特質を有し、また、その改正がそれぞれの時代の性的な被害の実態及びこれに対する社会の意識の変化に対応していること等に鑑み、この法律の施行後五年を経過した場合において、この法律による改正後のそれぞれの法律の規定及び性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律（令和五年法律第六十七号）の規定（以下「新刑法等の規定」という。）の施行の状況を勘案し、新刑法等の規定の施行後の性的な被害の実態及びこれに対する社会の受け止め方や社会の意識、とりわけ性的同意についての意識も踏まえつつ、速やかに性犯罪に係る事案の実態に即した対処を行うための施策の在り方について検討を加え、必要があると認めるときは、その結果に基づいて所要の措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-5051-66/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5051-66/art-20/par-1 Taking into account that provisions on crimes relating to sexual harm have the characteristic that the subjects of punishment are to be determined appropriately in light of how society perceives them, and that their amendment responds to the actual state of sexual harm in each era and changes in social awareness of it, the government, when five years have elapsed after this Act comes into effect, is to take into consideration the status of enforcement of the provisions of the respective Acts as amended by this Act and the provisions of the Act on the Punishment of Acts of Photographing Sexual Poses, etc. and the Erasure, etc. of Electronic or Magnetic Records of Images of Sexual Poses Recorded on Seized Articles (Act No. 67 of 2023) (hereinafter referred to as the "provisions of the new Penal Code, etc."), and, also taking into account the actual state of sexual harm after the enforcement of the provisions of the new Penal Code, etc. and how society perceives it and social awareness of it, in particular awareness of sexual consent, promptly examine the way measures for dealing with cases of sex crimes in accordance with the actual state of such cases should be, and, if it finds it necessary, take required measures based on the results. machine translation, not official **第二項** 政府は、前項の検討がより実証的なものとなるよう、性的な被害を申告することの困難さその他性的な被害の実態について、必要な調査を行うものとする。 suppl-5051-66/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5051-66/art-20/par-2 The Government is to conduct the necessary surveys on the difficulty of reporting sexual harm and other aspects of the actual state of sexual harm, so that the review referred to in the preceding paragraph will be more evidence-based. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5051-66/art-20/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 附則第二十条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20, paragraph (1)), suppl-5051-66/art-20/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5051-66/art-20/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 附則第二十条第二項（検討等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5051-66/art-20/par-2 --- ## Sources - 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 — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb), retrieved 2026-11-06 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-021, translated 2026-11-06 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-025, translated 2026-11-06 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-026, translated 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