Article 11Establishment of a National Disaster Management Council and the Function under its Jurisdiction
第十一条（中央防災会議の設置及び所掌事務）
The National Disaster Management Council is established in the Disaster Management Agency.
防災庁に、中央防災会議を置く。
The National Disaster Management Council takes charge of the following affairs:
中央防災会議は、次に掲げる事務をつかさどる。
formulation and promotion of implementation of a basic disaster management plan;
防災基本計画を作成し、及びその実施を推進すること。
in response to consultation by the Prime Minister or the Minister for Disaster Management, deliberation of important matters relating to disaster management;
内閣総理大臣又は防災大臣の諮問に応じて防災に関する重要事項を審議すること。
relating to important matters prescribed in the preceding item, expression of opinions to the Prime Minister or the Minister for Disaster Management;
前号に規定する重要事項に関し、内閣総理大臣又は防災大臣に意見を述べること。
coordination among relevant administrative organs that is necessary for measures concerning disaster management;
防災に関する施策について必要な関係行政機関相互の調整をすること。
beyond what is provided for in each of the preceding items, other affairs assigned by laws and regulations to its authority.
前各号に掲げるもののほか、法令の規定によりその権限に属する事務
The Prime Minister must consult the National Disaster Management Council with respect to the following matters:
内閣総理大臣は、次に掲げる事項については、中央防災会議に諮問しなければならない。
basic policy of disaster management;
防災の基本方針
major points in the overall coordination of measures undertaken for disaster management;
防災に関する施策の総合調整で重要なもの
outline of emergency measures temporarily required in the event of an extraordinary disaster or a specified disaster prescribed in Article 23-3, paragraph (1);
非常災害又は第二十三条の三第一項に規定する特定災害に際し一時的に必要とする緊急措置の大綱
declaration of a state of emergency disaster;
災害緊急事態の布告
other important matters relating to disaster management which the Prime Minister finds necessary.
その他内閣総理大臣が必要と認める防災に関する重要事項
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disaster managementmachine translation
「防災」
Preventing disasters before they happen, stopping the damage from spreading once one strikes, and recovering from a disaster and rebuilding after it.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ii)· applies throughout the law
basic disaster management plan
「防災基本計画」
The basic plan on disaster management that the National Disaster Management Council draws up.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (viii)· applies throughout the law
specified disastermachine translation
「特定災害」
A disaster smaller than an extraordinary disaster (非常災害) that puts people's lives or bodies in imminent danger and for which, given the state of the area and other circumstances, there is found to be a special need to push forward emergency disaster control measures; the Prime Minister may set up a specified disaster management headquarters in the Disaster Management Agency for it.
Short name set inArticle 23-3, paragraph (1)
Disaster Management Agency
防災庁
A national government agency placed in the Cabinet (内閣) by the Act for Establishment of the Disaster Management Agency (防災庁設置法, Act No. 61 of 2026) (Article 2). Its tasks are to assist the Cabinet, together with the Cabinet Secretariat (内閣官房), in the Cabinet's work on disaster management (防災) — disaster prevention, emergency response, recovery from a disaster and reconstruction after it — and to see that the government's administrative work on disaster management is done smoothly and quickly, both in line with the basic principles of Article 2-2 of the Basic Act on Disaster Management (Article 3). Its work includes planning and coordinating the government's basic policy and plans for disaster management, setting up and running the disaster management bodies of Chapter II of the Basic Act on Disaster Management, the disaster management plans (防災計画) that Act provides for, and emergency relief for disaster victims; work that concerns nuclear disaster management (原子力防災) alone is not its work but stays with the Cabinet Office (内閣府) (Article 4, paragraphs (1) to (3)). Its head is the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣), who may issue Disaster Management Agency Orders (防災庁令) on the matters in its charge, to carry out an Act (法律) or a Cabinet Order (政令) or where one of them specially delegates a matter; such an Order can set a penalty, impose a duty or restrict a right only where an Act delegates it (Article 6, paragraph (1), and Article 7, paragraphs (3) and (4)). A Minister for Disaster Management (防災大臣), who is a Minister of State (国務大臣), assists the Prime Minister and directs the Agency's work (Article 8, paragraphs (1) to (3)).
Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Disaster Management Agency, Arts. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and Basic Act on Disaster Management, Art. 2-2 as a reference.
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.