Extradition

Japan

Japan - Act on Cooperation with the International Criminal Court 2007 (2014) EN/Japanese

''Article 20 (1)''

(ii) when the request for cooperation competes with a request for the extradition of a fugitive as prescribed in Article 3 of the Act of Extradition (Act No. 68 of 1953) or with a request for the provisional detention of an offender as prescribed in Article 23, paragraph (1) of said Act and, where it is possible to give priority to the relevant request for extradition or provisional detention pursuant to the provisions of the Statute, when it is found appropriate to extradite the fugitive or to provisionally detain the offender;

Article 26 (8) The provisions of Article 22, paragraphs (3) through (6) of the Act of Extradition shall apply mutatis mutandis to where the suspension of the detention of an offender sought for surrender has been rescinded pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

Rome Statute

Article 102 Use of terms

For the purposes of this Statute:

(b) "extradition" means the delivering up of a person by one State to another as provided by treaty, convention or national legislation.