In cases where a disaster (limited to one that is found not to fall within the scope of an extraordinary disaster in terms of its scale; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) has occurred or is likely to occur, and the disaster would cause an imminent danger to the lives or bodies of people and is found to incur a special necessity to pursue emergency disaster control measures in light of the conditions in the area affected by the disaster and other circumstances (hereinafter referred to as a "specified disaster"), the Prime Minister may temporarily establish a specified disaster management headquarters in the Disaster Management Agency, as an administrative organ that systematically constitutes its organization.
災害（その規模が非常災害に該当するに至らないと認められるものに限る。以下この項において同じ。）が発生し、又は発生するおそれがある場合において、当該災害が、人の生命又は身体に急迫した危険を生じさせ、かつ、当該災害に係る地域の状況その他の事情を勘案して当該災害に係る災害応急対策を推進するため特別の必要があると認めるもの（以下「特定災害」という。）であるときは、内閣総理大臣は、臨時に防災庁に、その組織を系統的に構成する行政機関として、特定災害対策本部を設置することができる。
When a specified disaster management headquarters is established, the Prime Minister must immediately make a public notice of the name, area of jurisdiction, and location and term of establishment of the headquarters; when the headquarters is abolished, the Prime Minister must immediately make a public notice to that effect.
内閣総理大臣は、特定災害対策本部を置いたときは当該本部の名称、所管区域並びに設置の場所及び期間を、当該本部を廃止したときはその旨を、直ちに、告示しなければならない。
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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
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.