# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第四十八条 (Article 48) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-48. 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: 第四十八条 (Article 48)（防災訓練義務） — address `art-48` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-48 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-48 - 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. --- ### 第四十八条（防災訓練義務） — (Duty of Disaster Reduction Drill) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-48 **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、防災訓練を行なわなければならない。 art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-48/par-1 Persons responsible for disaster prevention must perform disaster reduction drills, 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 perform disaster reduction drills, 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** 都道府県公安委員会は、前項の防災訓練の効果的な実施を図るため特に必要があると認めるときは、政令で定めるところにより、当該防災訓練の実施に必要な限度で、区域又は道路の区間を指定して、歩行者又は車両の道路における通行を禁止し、又は制限することができる。 art-48/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-48/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-48/par-2 When the prefectural public safety commission finds it particularly necessary for the effective implementation of the disaster reduction drills prescribed in the preceding paragraph, it can designate zones or sections of road for which pedestrian or vehicular passage is banned or restricted, as provided for by Cabinet Order, to the extent that is necessary for implementing the disaster reduction drill. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 災害予防責任者の属する機関の職員その他の従業員又は災害予防責任者の使用人その他の従業者は、防災計画及び災害予防責任者の定めるところにより、第一項の防災訓練に参加しなければならない。 art-48/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-48/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-48/par-3 The officials and other employees of organizations to which persons responsible for disaster prevention belong and employees and other workers of persons responsible for disaster prevention must participate in disaster reduction drills prescribed in paragraph (1) as provided for under a disaster management plan and as determined by persons responsible for disaster prevention. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The officials and other employees of organizations to which persons responsible for disaster management belong and employees and other workers of persons responsible for disaster management must participate in disaster reduction drills prescribed in paragraph (1) as provided for under a disaster management plan and as determined by persons responsible for disaster management." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb **第四項** 災害予防責任者は、第一項の防災訓練を行おうとするときは、住民その他関係のある公私の団体に協力を求めることができる。 art-48/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-48/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-48/par-4 When persons responsible for disaster prevention intend to carry out disaster reduction drills as set forth in paragraph (1), they may seek the cooperation of the local residents 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 disaster reduction drills as set forth in paragraph (1), they may seek the cooperation of the local residents and other private or public groups concerned." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb --- ## Cites - art-48/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第四十八条第一項 (Article 48, paragraph (1)), art-48/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-48/par-1 - art-48/par-3: 第一項 → 災害対策基本法 第四十八条第一項 (Article 48, paragraph (1)), art-48/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-48/par-1 - art-48/par-4: 第一項 → 災害対策基本法 第四十八条第一項 (Article 48, paragraph (1)), art-48/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-48/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第四十八条第二項（防災訓練義務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-48/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-48/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 第四十八条第三項（防災訓練義務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-48/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-48/par-3 - 災害対策基本法 第四十八条第四項（防災訓練義務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-48/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-48/par-4 --- ## 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 48, 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 48, paragraph (3) — 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 48, paragraph (4) — 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