In cases where an extraordinary disaster has occurred or is likely to occur, when the Prime Minister finds a special necessity to pursue emergency disaster control measures concerning that disaster because of the dimensions of that disaster and other conditions, the Prime Minister may temporarily establish extraordinary disaster management headquarters within the Disaster Management Agency as an administrative organ systematically constituting its organization.
非常災害が発生し、又は発生するおそれがある場合において、当該災害の規模その他の状況により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、非常災害対策本部を設置することができる。
The provisions of Article 23-3, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the extraordinary disaster management headquarters.
第二十三条の三第二項の規定は、非常災害対策本部について準用する。
In cases where an extraordinary disaster management headquarters is established pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), when a specified disaster management headquarters concerning that disaster is already in existence, the relevant specified disaster management headquarters is abolished and the extraordinary disaster management headquarters succeeds to the function under the jurisdiction of the relevant specified disaster management headquarters.
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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.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law
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.