# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21)

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- 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
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- Provision: 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21)（周知） — address `suppl-5051-66/art-21`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-20
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### 第二十一条（周知） — Public Awareness
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<sup>suppl-5051-66/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5051-66/art-21</sup>

**第一項**  政府は、新刑法等の規定が、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、刑罰を伴う新たな行為規範を定めるものであることに鑑み、その趣旨及び内容について国民に周知を図るものとする。
<sup>suppl-5051-66/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5051-66/art-21/par-1</sup>
In light of the fact that the provisions of the new Penal Code, etc. establish new norms of conduct accompanied by criminal punishment in response to the actual state of sexual harm and to changes in public awareness of it, the Government is to seek to make their purpose and content known to the public.
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## 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-20261106T054114-026, 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