# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第四十七条の二 (Article 47-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-47-2. 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: 第四十七条の二 (Article 47-2)（防災教育の実施） — address `art-47-2` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-47-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-47-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四十七条の二（防災教育の実施） — (Implementation of Disaster Management Education) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-47-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-47-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-47-2 **第一項** 災害予防責任者は、法令又は防災計画の定めるところにより、それぞれ又は他の災害予防責任者と共同して、その所掌事務又は業務について、防災教育の実施に努めなければならない。 art-47-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-47-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-47-2/par-1 Persons responsible for disaster prevention must endeavor to perform disaster management education with respect to the function or operations under their jurisdiction, severally or in concert with other persons responsible for disaster prevention, as provided for by laws and regulations or under a disaster management plan. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Persons responsible for disaster management must endeavor to perform disaster prevention education with respect to the function or operations under their jurisdiction, severally or in concert with other persons responsible for disaster management, as provided for by laws and regulations or under a disaster management plan." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb **第二項** 災害予防責任者は、前項の防災教育を行おうとするときは、教育機関その他の関係のある公私の団体に協力を求めることができる。 art-47-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-47-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-47-2/par-2 When persons responsible for disaster prevention intend to carry out a disaster management education prescribed in the preceding paragraph, they may seek the cooperation of education organs and other private or public groups concerned. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When persons responsible for disaster management intend to carry out a disaster management education prescribed in the preceding paragraph, they may seek the cooperation of education organs and other private or public groups concerned." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb --- ## Cites - art-47-2/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第四十七条の二第一項 (Article 47-2, paragraph (1)), art-47-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-47-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-47-2/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第四十七条の二第二項（防災教育の実施） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-47-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-47-2/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Basic Act on Disaster Management, written 2026-11-03 - 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 (災害対策基本法), Article 47-2, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Basic Act on Disaster Management (災害対策基本法), Article 47-2, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb), 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