日本的刑事诉讼制度经历了一千多年漫长岁月的沧桑巨变。原曾以氏族法、律令、武家法典作为其表现形式,19世纪末模仿德国模式确立其近代刑事诉讼制度,第二次世界大战后又在美国法的强烈影响下进行改革,最终演变成为兼有西方两大法系特色的混合型刑事诉讼制度,在外国刑事诉讼法中独树一帜。日本的刑事诉讼制度发展变革过程中表现出了三个明显的特点。 Japan’s criminal procedure system experienced tremendous changes over a long period of more than a thousand years. The original clan law, law and order, martial law as its form of expression, the late 19th century to imitate the German model to establish its modern criminal procedure system, after the Second World War and under the influence of the United States law reform eventually evolved into both Western The mixed criminal procedure system with the characteristics of the two major legal systems is unique in the foreign criminal procedure law. Japan’s criminal procedure system in the process of development and change showed three distinct characteristics.