# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第四条 (Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-4. 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: 第四条 (Article 4)（都道府県の責務） — address `art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条（都道府県の責務） — (Responsibilities of the Prefecture) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-4 **第一項** 都道府県は、基本理念にのつとり、当該都道府県の地域並びに当該都道府県の住民の生命、身体及び財産を災害から保護するため、関係機関及び他の地方公共団体の協力を得て、当該都道府県の地域に係る防災に関する計画を作成し、及び法令に基づきこれを実施するとともに、その区域内の市町村及び指定地方公共機関が処理する防災に関する事務又は業務の実施を助け、かつ、その総合調整を行う責務を有する。 art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-4/par-1 Based on the basic principles and in the interest of protecting the area of a prefecture, and the lives, bodies, and properties of its residents from disaster, the prefecture has the responsibility to formulate a disaster management plan concerning an area of the relevant prefecture with the cooperation of related organs and other local governments, implement the plan on the basis of laws and regulations, and at the same time, assist in the implementation of affairs or operations concerning disaster management handled by municipalities and designated local public corporations within the area, and undertake the overall coordination of the implementation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 都道府県の機関は、その所掌事務を遂行するにあたつては、前項に規定する都道府県の責務が十分に果たされることとなるように、相互に協力しなければならない。 art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-4/par-2 Organs of a prefecture must, in performing the functions under their jurisdiction, mutually cooperate so that responsibilities of the prefecture prescribed in the preceding paragraph may be fulfilled. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-4/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第四条第一項 (Article 4, paragraph (1)), art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-4/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第四条第二項（都道府県の責務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-4/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 第五条の二第一項（地方公共団体相互の協力） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-5-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-5-2/par-1 --- ## 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