In cases where an extraordinary disaster has occurred, and the disaster is so abnormal and remarkably severe that it has a serious impact on the State economy and public welfare, when the Prime Minister finds a special necessity to enforce emergency disaster control measures concerning the disaster, preserve the economic order of the State, and address other important issues concerning the disaster, the Prime Minister may declare a state of emergency disaster involving the whole or part of the affected area, after deliberation in a cabinet meeting.
非常災害が発生し、かつ、当該災害が国の経済及び公共の福祉に重大な影響を及ぼすべき異常かつ激甚なものである場合において、当該災害に係る災害応急対策を推進し、国の経済の秩序を維持し、その他当該災害に係る重要な課題に対応するため特別の必要があると認めるときは、内閣総理大臣は、閣議にかけて、関係地域の全部又は一部について災害緊急事態の布告を発することができる。
Such a declaration provided for under the preceding paragraph must specify the area concerned, give an outline of the situation warranting such action, and set the date and time when the declaration takes effect.
前項の布告には、その区域、布告を必要とする事態の概要及び布告の効力を発する日時を明示しなければならない。
disastermachine translation
「災害」
Damage caused by a storm, tornado, heavy rain or snow, flood, slope failure, debris flow, storm surge, earthquake, tsunami, soil liquefaction, volcanic eruption, landslide or other abnormal natural phenomenon, or by a large fire or explosion or another cause that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as causing damage on a similar scale.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law
Prime Minister
内閣総理大臣
The head of the Cabinet. Designated by the Diet from among its own members, and appointed by the Emperor on that designation (Articles 67 and 6). The Prime Minister appoints and may dismiss the other Ministers of State at will, and a majority of them must be members of the Diet (Article 68). No Minister of State can be subjected to legal action while in office without the Prime Minister's consent (Article 75).
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 6, 67, 68, 75 and Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan as a reference.