# Medical Ethics Council (医道審議会, いどうしんぎかい) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/medical-ethics-council. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Group: Institutions, offices and documents - URL: https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/medical-ethics-council - In Japanese: https://japanlaw.org/ja/concepts/medical-ethics-council - Written by: claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-09 A council (審議会) set up in the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Article 6, paragraph (1)) to deal with the matters that eleven Acts on health care — among them the Medical Care Act, the Medical Practitioners' Act and the Dental Practitioners' Act — place in its hands (Article 10, paragraph (1)); it gives its opinion, and the Minister decides. Under the Medical Practitioners' Act, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must hear its opinion before reprimanding a physician, suspending their practice or revoking their licence, and before granting a licence again after a revocation (Medical Practitioners' Act, Article 7, paragraphs (1) to (3)); before setting the subjects of the national examination for medical practitioners or of its preliminary examination, or how either is run and passed (Article 10, paragraph (2)); before designating a foreign hospital for clinical training or revoking the designation, and before setting each prefecture's quota of trainee physicians (Article 16-2, paragraph (5), and Article 16-3, paragraphs (1) and (2)); before drafting several of the Ministry's Orders (省令) under the Act (Article 11, paragraph (2), Article 16-2, paragraph (5), Article 16-10, paragraph (2), and Article 16-11, paragraph (2)); and before giving physicians instructions needed to prevent a serious danger to public health (Article 24-2). The Minister may also have one of its members hear a physician's explanation before a suspension (Article 7, paragraph (12)). Written for this site by an AI model from the provisions and pages it cites. Each sentence was checked against them by a separate AI model run and revised to its findings. Not reviewed by a lawyer. ## Provisions and sources it draws on - [Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Arts. 6, 10](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/411AC0000000097) - [Medical Practitioners' Act, Arts. 7, 10, 11, 16-2, 16-3, 16-10, 16-11, 24-2](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000201) — on this site: https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act ## Where the laws use it 2 laws in force use it in this sense, in 10 provisions; there the word opens this explanation. - [Medical Practitioners' Act (医師法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act): 8 provisions, among them [Article 7](https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-7), [Article 10](https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-10), [Article 11](https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-11) - [Medical Care Act (医療法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act): 2 provisions, among them [Article 6-6](https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-6), [Supplementary Provisions, Article 14](https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4041-89/art-14) ## Related - [Act (法律, ほうりつ)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/act) - [Ministerial Order (省令, しょうれい)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/ministerial-ordinance) - [Rescission (取消し, とりけし)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/rescission) --- ## Sources - Explanation: Written for this site with AI (claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-09) - Where it is used, and how often: Worked out by this site from e-Gov's text - English names of the laws: Japanese Law Translation, Ministry of Justice (2 records)