1. The fact that a video recording of the investigation process is made;
2. The fact that video recordings made through video recording may be used as evidence.
(3) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), where a victim under the age of 19, etc. or his or her legal
representative (excluding where the legal representative is an offender or the spouse of the offender)
express the intention of excluding a video recording, no video recording shall be made.
(4) When a public prosecutor or a judicial police officer completes a video recording prescribed in
paragraph (1), he or she shall, without delay, seal the relevant recordings in the presence of a victim or a
counsel and shall have the victim affix his or her name and seal or sign thereon.
(5) A public prosecutor or a judicial police officer shall enter the progress of the video recording process
prescribed in paragraph (1) in a report (including a separate document; hereinafter the same shall apply)
and shall file such report into the investigation records.
(6) When the progress of the video recording process is entered in a report under paragraph (5), the
following matters shall be specified:
1. The time when a victim arrives at the place of the video recording;
2. The time when the video recording starts and ends;
3. Other matters necessary to check the progress of the video recording process.
(7) Upon request by a victim under the age of 19, etc. or his or her legal representative, a public prosecutor
or a judicial police officer shall issue the requesting person a copy of the report prepared in the course of a
video recording or a copy of the transcript containing the content of video recordings or shall replay the
video recordings to allow him or her to watch them.
(8) No person shall use video recordings made through video recording under paragraph (1) for purposes
other than investigations or trials.
(9) The latter part of Article 244-2 (1) of the Criminal Procedure Act shall apply mutatis mutandis to the
methods for video recording under paragraph (1).
Article 30-2 (Special Cases concerning Admissibility of Evidence)
(1) A video recording under Article 30 (1) that is obtained under the procedures using the methods under
the paragraphs (4) through (6) of that Article and that contains the statements made by a victim under the
age of 19, etc. may be used as evidence in any of the following cases:
1. Where the suspect, the accused, or the counsel could examine the victim with regard to the content of
the video recording on the date of evidence preservation, the date of trial preparation, or the date of a
trial: Provided, That in the case of an examination on the date of evidence preservation, this shall apply
only where the court deems that a sufficient cross examination of the victim is conducted with the right
to defense guaranteed to the suspect or victim;
2. Where a victim under the age of 19, etc. is unable to appear before the court on the date of trial
preparation or the date of a trial and to make a statement due to any of the following reasons: Provided,
That this shall apply only where a video-recorded statement or video recording is made under a
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