# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第五条の三 (Article 5-3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-5-3. 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: 第五条の三 (Article 5-3)（国及び地方公共団体とボランティアとの連携） — address `art-5-3` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-5-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-5-3 - 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. --- ### 第五条の三（国及び地方公共団体とボランティアとの連携） — (Coordination among the State, Local Governments, and Volunteers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-5-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-5-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-5-3 **第一項** 国及び地方公共団体は、ボランティアによる防災活動が災害時において果たす役割の重要性に鑑み、その自主性を尊重しつつ、ボランティアとの連携に努めなければならない。 art-5-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-5-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-5-3/par-1 In view of the importance of the roles which disaster management activities by volunteers play at the time of a disaster, the State and local governments must respect their independence and endeavor to cooperate with volunteers. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 国は、広報活動、啓発活動等を通じて、ボランティアによる防災活動に対する事業者及び国民の関心と理解を深めるとともに、休暇の取得の促進その他のボランティアによる防災活動への国民の参加を促進するため必要な措置を講ずるよう努めなければならない。 art-5-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-5-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-5-3/par-2 The State must endeavor, through public relations activities, awareness-raising activities, etc., to deepen the interest in and understanding of disaster management activities by volunteers among companies and citizens, and to take the promotion of the taking of leave and other measures necessary to promote the participation of citizens in disaster management activities by volunteers. machine translation, not official --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch disaster-management-act-20261103T010525-001, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 221 — 災害対策基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02