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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.
暴風、竜巻、豪雨、豪雪、洪水、崖崩れ、土石流、高潮、地震、津波、地盤の液状化、噴火、地滑りその他の異常な自然現象又は大規模な火事若しくは爆発その他その及ぼす被害の程度においてこれらに類する政令で定める原因により生ずる被害
The national administrative organs the Prime Minister designates from among the Cabinet Office (内閣府), the Imperial Household Agency, the Digital Agency, the Disaster Management Agency, the ministries, commissions and agencies, and the councils, facilities, special organs and other bodies set up under them.
次に掲げる機関で内閣総理大臣が指定するもの
The local branch offices of designated administrative organs, and other local administrative organs of the State, that the Prime Minister designates.
指定行政機関の地方支分部局（内閣府設置法第四十三条及び第五十七条（宮内庁法第十八条第一項において準用する場合を含む。）並びに宮内庁法第十七条第一項並びに国家行政組織法第九条の地方支分部局をいう。）その他の国の地方行政機関で、内閣総理大臣が指定するもの
Incorporated administrative agencies, the Bank of Japan, the Japanese Red Cross Society, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) and other public institutions, and corporations running public utilities such as electricity, gas, transport and telecommunications, that the Prime Minister designates.
独立行政法人（独立行政法人通則法（平成十一年法律第百三号）第二条第一項に規定する独立行政法人をいう。）、日本銀行、日本赤十字社、日本放送協会その他の公共的機関及び電気、ガス、輸送、通信その他の公益的事業を営む法人で、内閣総理大臣が指定するもの
Preventing disasters before they happen, stopping the damage from spreading once one strikes, and recovering from a disaster and rebuilding after it.
災害を未然に防止し、災害が発生した場合における被害の拡大を防ぎ、並びに災害の復旧及び災害からの復興（以下「復旧復興」という。）を図ること
Local incorporated administrative agencies, port authorities, land improvement districts and other managers of public facilities, and corporations running public utilities such as electricity, gas, transport and telecommunications in a prefecture, that the governor of that prefecture designates.
地方独立行政法人（地方独立行政法人法（平成十五年法律第百十八号）第二条第一項に規定する地方独立行政法人をいう。）及び港湾法（昭和二十五年法律第二百十八号）第四条第一項の港務局（第八十二条第一項において「港務局」という。）、土地改良法（昭和二十四年法律第百九十五号）第五条第一項の土地改良区その他の公共的施設の管理者並びに都道府県の地域において電気、ガス、輸送、通信その他の公益的事業を営む法人で、当該都道府県の知事が指定するもの
Fire-fighting, flood fighting, rescue and other emergency measures needed to fend off a disaster or stop it from spreading.
The basic disaster management plan, the disaster management operation plans and the area disaster management plans.
防災基本計画及び防災業務計画並びに地域防災計画
A disaster management plan for a particular area: the plan for a prefecture made by its prefectural disaster management council, the plan for a municipality made by its municipal disaster management council or mayor, and the plans for areas spanning two or more prefectures or municipalities made by joint committees of their councils.
一定地域に係る防災に関する計画で、次に掲げるもの
Recovery from a disaster and reconstruction after it.
A disaster management plan that the head of a designated administrative organ (or, for a commission or certain collegial bodies, the organ itself) or a designated public corporation draws up for its own work on the basis of the basic disaster management plan; for work delegated to them, the designated local administrative organ or designated local public corporation draws it up.
指定行政機関の長（当該指定行政機関が内閣府設置法第四十九条第一項若しくは第二項若しくは国家行政組織法第三条第二項の委員会若しくは第三号ロに掲げる機関又は同号ニに掲げる機関のうち合議制のものである場合にあつては、当該指定行政機関。第十二条第八項、第二十五条第六項第二号、第二十八条第二項、第二十八条の三第六項第四号、第二十八条の六第二項及び第二十八条の十二第六項第二号を除き、以下同じ。）又は指定公共機関（指定行政機関の長又は指定公共機関から委任された事務又は業務については、当該委任を受けた指定地方行政機関の長又は指定地方公共機関）が防災基本計画に基づきその所掌事務又は業務について作成する防災に関する計画
An organization cooperating in support of disaster victims (被災者援護協力団体), a corporation or similar body that helps the State and local governments support disaster victims through work such as running shelters or providing meals, that is registered with the Prime Minister under Article 33-2, paragraph (1).
Work that helps the State and local governments support disaster victims: running shelters, providing meals and drinking water, supplying or lending clothing, bedding and other daily necessities, emergency repair of damaged houses and clearing of debris, counselling and informing victims, coordinating volunteers, and other cooperation needed to support victims.
The basic plan on disaster management that the National Disaster Management Council draws up.
中央防災会議が作成する防災に関する基本的な計画
A resident hit by a disaster who has difficulty finding a place to live on their own.
Support with evacuation, checking whether people are safe and other measures needed to protect the lives and bodies of residents in need of assistance in evacuation from a disaster.
Persons requiring special care living in a municipality who would find it hard to evacuate on their own when a disaster strikes or threatens and who especially need support for a smooth and quick evacuation.
A joint committee of prefectural disaster management councils or a joint committee of municipal disaster management councils.
都道府県防災会議の協議会又は市町村防災会議の協議会
Registration with the Prime Minister, under Article 33-2, paragraph (1), of an organization cooperating in support of disaster victims, such as one that runs shelters or provides meals and drinking water to disaster victims.
指定災害廃棄物
In Article 86-5, waste produced by a disaster that a Cabinet Order (政令) has designated under paragraph (1) of that Article as one where preventing the worsening of living conditions is especially needed.
避難所
A facility where residents and others who have left their homes to evacuate stay for as long as they need to, or where affected residents who cannot find a place to live and other disaster victims stay temporarily.
避難のための立退きを行つた居住者、滞在者その他の者（以下「居住者等」という。）を避難のために必要な間滞在させ、又は自ら居住の場所を確保することが困難な被災した住民（以下「被災住民」という。）その他の被災者を一時的に滞在させるための施設
In Chapter IV (disaster prevention), the heads of designated administrative organs and designated local administrative organs, the heads and other executive organs of local governments, designated public corporations and designated local public corporations, public organizations, and the managers of facilities important for disaster management.
Residents and others (居住者等) whom the mayor of a municipality seeks to have taken in by another municipality for wide-area evacuation under Article 61-4, paragraph (1).
道路管理者
For a national expressway under Article 4, paragraph (1) of the National Highway Act, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and for any other road, the road administrator under Article 18, paragraph (1) of the Road Act.
高速自動車国道法（昭和三十二年法律第七十九号）第四条第一項に規定する高速自動車国道にあつては国土交通大臣、その他の道路にあつては道路法（昭和二十七年法律第百八十号）第十八条第一項に規定する道路管理者
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.
都道府県知事等
Everywhere but Article 33-3, a prefectural governor, or a committee (委員会) or a commissioner (委員) of a prefecture.
The mayor of a municipality, or a committee (委員会) or a commissioner (委員) of a municipality.
The heads of designated administrative organs and designated local administrative organs, the heads and other executive organs of local governments, designated public corporations and designated local public corporations, public organizations, and the managers of facilities important for disaster management, as the bodies responsible for emergency disaster control measures.
In Articles 90-4 to 90-6, the information written or recorded in a disaster victim register that the mayor of a municipality has drawn up.
災害派遣を命ぜられた部隊等の自衛官
Members of the Self-Defense Forces in units or other formations under Article 8 of the Self-Defense Forces Act that have been ordered to deploy under Article 83, paragraph (2) of that Act.
緊急通行車両
An emergency motor vehicle under Article 39, paragraph (1) of the Road Traffic Act, or another vehicle that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as one whose passage must especially be secured so that emergency disaster control measures can be carried out properly and smoothly.
道路交通法（昭和三十五年法律第百五号）第三十九条第一項の緊急自動車その他の車両で災害応急対策の的確かつ円滑な実施のためその通行を確保することが特に必要なものとして政令で定めるもの
広域一時滞在
A temporary stay of affected residents in the area of another municipality in the same prefecture, arranged by consultation between the mayors when the residents cannot be protected or housed in their own municipality.
対処基本方針
In Article 108, the basic policy on dealing with a state of emergency disaster that the government sets once a state of emergency disaster has been declared under Article 105.
基本理念
The basic principles of disaster management set out in Article 2-2, among them always assuming that a disaster may happen and keeping its damage as small as possible, sharing roles among the State, local governments and residents, giving top priority to protecting people's lives and bodies, supporting disaster victims according to their circumstances, and preparing for recovery and reconstruction.
Older people, people with disabilities, infants and others who need special care.
The information written or recorded in an individual evacuation plan that the mayor of a municipality has drawn up.
工作物等
In Article 64, a structure (工作物) or object (物件) at the scene of a disaster that has been damaged and stands in the way of emergency measures, which the mayor of a municipality may remove.
In Article 42, paragraph (3) and Article 42-2, a plan for disaster management activities in a particular district of a municipality, such as drills its residents and businesses hold together, stocks of supplies and materials for their activities and their mutual support when a disaster strikes, which the municipality's area disaster management plan may include.
The information written or recorded in the list of residents in need of assistance in evacuation that the mayor of a municipality has drawn up.
避難支援等関係者
In Article 49-11, paragraph (3) and Articles 49-14 and 49-15, the people involved in giving evacuation support, such as fire services, the prefectural police, commissioned welfare volunteers (民生委員), the municipal social welfare council and voluntary disaster management organizations.
A plan the mayor of a municipality is to try to draw up for each resident in need of assistance in evacuation whose details are on the name list, setting out how evacuation support will be given to that person; none is made where the person does not consent.
緊急安全確保措置
Urgent steps to keep safe, such as moving to higher ground, sheltering in a sturdy building nearby or keeping away from openings to the outside inside a building, which the mayor of a municipality may instruct residents and others to take when leaving to evacuate would itself put their lives or bodies at risk.
In Articles 74-2 and 74-3, the mayor of a municipality where a disaster has occurred or is likely to occur, whom a prefectural governor may ask the governors of other prefectures to support.
A road management body, or a port management body or fishing port management body in so far as it manages roads within a port or fishing port.
協議先市町村長
In Article 86-8, the mayor of the municipality in the same prefecture who was consulted about taking in affected residents for a wide-area temporary stay.
都道府県外広域一時滞在
A temporary stay of affected residents in the area of another prefecture, arranged by consultation between the prefectural governors at the request of the residents' mayor.
協議先都道府県知事
In Article 86-9, the governor of another prefecture who was consulted about taking in affected residents.
都道府県外協議先市町村長
In Article 86-9, the mayor of a municipality in another prefecture whom that prefecture's governor consulted about taking in affected residents.
An extremely severe disaster, for which Article 97 has the government take measures under a separate Act so that emergency measures and recovery are carried out quickly and properly, the costs borne by the local governments and others it strikes are fairly shared, and victims are encouraged to rebuild.
A disaster management organization that residents form of their own accord, in a spirit of neighbourly mutual cooperation.
住民の隣保協同の精神に基づく自発的な防災組織
A prefectural disaster management council or a municipal disaster management council.
都道府県防災会議又は市町村防災会議
In Article 33-2, a corporation, or another body a Disaster Management Agency Order treats alike, that helps the State and local governments support disaster victims through work such as running shelters, providing meals and drinking water, supplying clothing and bedding, emergency house repairs and clearing debris, counselling and informing victims, and coordinating volunteers.
In Article 49-10 and Article 49-11, paragraph (1), the list of residents in need of assistance in evacuation that the mayor of a municipality must draw up as the basis for giving them evacuation support.
In Article 59, paragraph (2) and Articles 64 and 66, the chief of a police station, or the head of an office of a regional coast guard headquarters that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.
協議先市町村長
In Article 61-4, the mayor of the municipality in the same prefecture who was consulted about taking in residents and others (居住者等) for wide-area evacuation.
A stay of residents and others (居住者等) in the area of another municipality in the same prefecture, arranged by consultation between the mayors, when a disaster threatens and they cannot safely be sent to an evacuation site in their own municipality.
協議先都道府県知事
In Article 61-5, the governor of another prefecture who was consulted about taking in people in need of evacuation.
都道府県外協議先市町村長
In Article 61-5, the mayor of a municipality in another prefecture whom that prefecture's governor consulted about taking in people in need of evacuation.
A stay for a set period of people in need of evacuation in a municipality of another prefecture, arranged by consultation at the request of their mayor.
都道府県外協議先市町村長
In Article 61-6, the mayor of a municipality in another prefecture whom a mayor consulted directly, in an emergency, about taking in people in need of evacuation.
通行禁止等
A ban on or restriction of vehicle traffic on roads that a prefectural public safety commission imposes under Article 76, paragraph (1), except for emergency vehicles, so that emergency disaster control measures can be carried out.
A road management body, or a port management body or fishing port management body in so far as it manages roads within a port or fishing port.
道路管理者（高速自動車国道法（昭和三十二年法律第七十九号）第四条第一項に規定する高速自動車国道にあつては国土交通大臣、その他の道路にあつては道路法（昭和二十七年法律第百八十号）第十八条第一項に規定する道路管理者をいう。以下同じ。）、港湾管理者（港湾法第二条第一項に規定する港湾管理者をいい、同条第五項第四号の道路（同条第六項の規定により同号の道路とみなされたものを含む。）を管理している者に限る。第七十六条の七第二項において同じ。）又は漁港管理者（漁港及び漁場の整備等に関する法律（昭和二十五年法律第百三十七号）第二十五条の規定により決定された地方公共団体をいい、同法第三条第二号イの道路（同法第六十六条第一項又は第三項の規定により同号イの道路とみなされたものを含む。）を管理している者に限る。第七十六条の七第三項において同じ。）
会社管理高速道路
In Articles 76-4 and 76-6, an expressway that one of the six expressway companies listed in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Act on Special Measures concerning Road Construction and Improvement maintains, repairs and restores after disasters under Article 4 of that Act; an expressway, as Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act on Expressway Companies defines it, is a national expressway, a motor-vehicle-only road (自動車専用道路) or a road of the same standard and function.
道路整備特別措置法（昭和三十一年法律第七号）第二条第四項に規定する会社（第七十六条の六第六項及び第七項において「会社」という。）が同法第四条の規定により維持、修繕及び災害復旧を行う高速道路（高速道路株式会社法（平成十六年法律第九十九号）第二条第二項に規定する高速道路をいう。）
機構
The Japan Expressway Holding and Debt Repayment Agency (独立行政法人日本高速道路保有・債務返済機構), which exercises the powers of the road management body, in its place, on expressways that the expressway companies manage.
廃棄物
In Article 86-5, waste as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Waste Management and Public Cleaning: refuse, bulky refuse, ashes, sludge, excreta, waste oil, waste acid, waste alkali, animal carcasses and other filthy or unwanted matter in solid or liquid form, other than radioactive material and what it has contaminated.
廃棄物の処理及び清掃に関する法律（昭和四十五年法律第百三十七号。以下この条において「廃棄物処理法」という。）第二条第一項に規定する廃棄物
In Article 90-3 and Article 90-4, paragraph (1), a register that the mayor of a municipality may draw up as the basis for supporting the victims of a disaster comprehensively and efficiently.
地区居住者等
In Article 42, paragraph (3) and Article 42-2, the people who live in a particular district of a municipality and the businesses that have a place of business there.
In Article 49-15, paragraph (3) and Articles 49-16 and 49-17, the resident in need of assistance in evacuation whom an individual evacuation plan's information concerns, together with the evacuation support implementer named in it.
協議元都道府県知事
In Article 61-5, the prefectural governor who, at a mayor's request, consulted the governor of another prefecture about taking in people in need of evacuation.
In Article 74-3, the governor of a prefecture where a disaster has occurred or is likely to occur, whom the Prime Minister may be asked to have the governors of other prefectures support.
A local road public corporation as provided for in Article 1 of the Local Road Public Corporation Act: a body that builds, improves, maintains, repairs and otherwise manages roads on which tolls may be charged, to develop a region's main roads.
地方道路公社法（昭和四十五年法律第八十二号）第一条の地方道路公社
廃棄物処理法
In Article 86-5, short name for the Act on Waste Management and Public Cleaning (Act No. 137 of 1970).
協議元市町村長
In Article 86-8, the mayor of a municipality who consulted the mayor of another municipality in the same prefecture about taking in affected residents for a wide-area temporary stay.
協議元都道府県知事
In Article 86-9, the prefectural governor who, at a mayor's request, consulted the governor of another prefecture about taking in affected residents for a wide-area temporary stay outside the prefecture.
都道府県外協議元市町村長
In Article 86-9, the mayor of a municipality who asked the prefectural governor to consult the governor of another prefecture about taking in affected residents for a wide-area temporary stay outside the prefecture.
The Acts (法律) amended by Act No. 36 of 2021, and the orders made under them, as that Act amended them.
The Acts (法律) amended by Act No. 36 of 2021, and the orders made under them, as they stood before that Act amended them.
The Acts (法律) amended by Act No. 62 of 2026, and the orders made under them, as that Act amended them.
The Acts (法律) amended by Act No. 62 of 2026, and the orders made under them, as they stood before that Act amended them.
役員
In Articles 33-2, 33-6 and 90-6, a partner who executes the business of an organization cooperating in support of disaster victims, a director, an executive officer or a person of equivalent standing, including anyone, whatever their title, such as adviser, recognised as having control over it equal to or greater than theirs, and the representative or administrator of an unincorporated body that has one.
業務を執行する社員、取締役、執行役又はこれらに準ずる者をいい、相談役、顧問その他いかなる名称を有する者であるかを問わず、法人に対し業務を執行する社員、取締役、執行役若しくはこれらに準ずる者と同等以上の支配力を有するものと認められる者又は法人でない団体で代表者若しくは管理人の定めのあるものの代表者若しくは管理人を含む
計画提案
In Article 42-2, a joint proposal by the residents and businesses of a district to the municipal disaster management council that a district disaster management plan be included in the municipality's area disaster management plan.
協議元市町村長
In Article 61-4, the mayor of a municipality who consulted the mayor of another municipality in the same prefecture about taking in residents and others (居住者等) for wide-area evacuation.
協議元市町村長
In Article 61-5, the mayor of a municipality who asked the prefectural governor to consult the governor of another prefecture about having people in need of evacuation taken in by a municipality there.
協議元市町村長
In Article 61-6, the mayor of a municipality who, in an emergency, consulted the mayor of a municipality in another prefecture directly about taking in people in need of evacuation.
通行禁止区域等
The area or section of road where vehicle traffic has been banned or restricted under Article 76, paragraph (1).
会社
In Article 76-6, paragraphs (6) and (7), one of the six expressway companies listed in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Act on Special Measures concerning Road Construction and Improvement, such as East Nippon Expressway Company Limited (東日本高速道路株式会社) and Metropolitan Expressway Company Limited (首都高速道路株式会社).
In Article 76-4 and Article 76-6, paragraphs (8) and (9), a road that a local road public corporation maintains, repairs and restores after disasters under Article 14 of the Act on Special Measures concerning Road Construction and Improvement, or does so with a permission under Article 15, paragraph (1) of that Act.
地方道路公社（地方道路公社法（昭和四十五年法律第八十二号）第一条の地方道路公社をいう。以下同じ。）が道路整備特別措置法第十四条の規定により維持、修繕及び災害復旧を行い、又は同法第十五条第一項の許可を受けて維持、修繕及び災害復旧を行う道路
避難所等
In Article 86-2, the shelters or emergency temporary housing for a disaster.
医療施設
In Article 86-3, used in "temporary medical facility" (臨時の医療施設): a temporary facility for giving medical care to disaster victims.
被災者に対する医療の提供を行うための臨時の施設
In Article 86-5, the basic guideline on dealing with designated disaster waste that the Minister of the Environment sets and publishes, in line with the basic policy under Article 5-2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Waste Management and Public Cleaning, once a disaster has been designated under that Article.
廃棄物処理特例基準
In Article 86-5, the standards the Minister of the Environment sets for collecting, carrying and disposing of waste in a special waste treatment area, and for entrusting that work to someone other than the municipality, which are treated as the standards the Act on Waste Management and Public Cleaning provides for.
In Article 86-9, the information the mayor of a municipality holds on each affected resident to be taken in by another prefecture on the matters Article 90-3, paragraph (2) lists, such as name, date of birth, sex, address, the damage suffered and the support given, which the mayor must give the prefectural governor when consulting.
This Act as amended by Article 66 of Act No. 87 of 1999.
This Act as it stood before Article 66 of Act No. 87 of 1999 amended it.
In Article 82, paragraph (1), a port authority under Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Port and Harbour Act.
In Articles 21 and 22, the prefectural and municipal disaster management councils, including the joint committees of local disaster management councils.
In Article 30, a designated public corporation that the Prime Minister designates, for a given area, as contributing especially to emergency disaster control measures or disaster recovery in a municipality's area, given its work and other circumstances.
In Article 31, a specified local incorporated administrative agency (特定地方独立行政法人) under Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Local Independent Administrative Agency Act that is a designated local public corporation.
In Article 40, the designated local administrative organs with jurisdiction over all or part of a prefecture, the prefecture itself, the municipalities in it, designated public corporations and designated local public corporations, and the public organizations and managers of facilities important for disaster management in the prefecture.