# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第百八条の三 (Article 108-3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-108-3. 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. - Law: 災害対策基本法 (Basic Act on Disaster Management), 昭和三十六年法律第二百二十三号 - English title "Basic Act on Disaster Management": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第百八条の三 (Article 108-3)（国民への協力の要求） — address `art-108-3` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-108-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-108-3 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百八条の三（国民への協力の要求） — (Request for Cooperation of Citizens) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-108-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-108-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-108-3 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、第百五条の規定による災害緊急事態の布告があつたときは、国民に対し、必要な範囲において、国民生活との関連性が高い物資又は国民経済上重要な物資をみだりに購入しないことその他の必要な協力を求めることができる。 art-108-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-108-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-108-3/par-1 When a declaration of a state of emergency disaster has been made under Article 105, the Prime Minister may ask citizens to cooperate with the State in not buying without reason goods that are closely related with the lives of the citizenry or important goods in the national economy, or in any other necessary matters within the extent necessary. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 国民は、前項の規定により協力を求められたときは、これに応ずるよう努めなければならない。 art-108-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-108-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-108-3/par-2 When having been asked to cooperate pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the citizens must endeavor to respond to the requests. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-108-3/par-1: 第百五条 → 災害対策基本法 第百五条 (Article 105), art-105 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-105 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-105 - art-108-3/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第百八条の三第一項 (Article 108-3, paragraph (1)), art-108-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-108-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-108-3/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第百八条の三第二項（国民への協力の要求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-108-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-108-3/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 災害対策基本法 — the text in force from 2026-11-02 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/336AC0000000223/20261102_508AC0000000062), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Basic Act on Disaster Management — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 221 — 災害対策基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02