# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第六十八条 (Article 68) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68. 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: 第六十八条 (Article 68)（都道府県知事等に対する応援の要求等） — address `art-68` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68 - 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. --- ### 第六十八条（都道府県知事等に対する応援の要求等） — (Request for Support from Prefectural Governor) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68 **第一項** 市町村長等は、当該市町村の地域に係る災害が発生し、又は発生するおそれがある場合において、災害応急対策を実施するため必要があると認めるときは、都道府県知事等に対し、応援を求め、又は災害応急対策の実施を要請することができる。この場合において、応援を求められ、又は災害応急対策の実施を要請された都道府県知事等は、正当な理由がない限り、応援又は災害応急対策の実施を拒んではならない。 art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68/par-1 In cases where a disaster involving an area of a municipality has occurred or is likely to occur, when the mayor of a municipality, etc. finds it necessary for implementing emergency disaster control measures, the mayor may ask for support or request implementation of emergency disaster control measures from the prefectural governor, etc. In this case, the prefectural governor, etc. asked to provide support or requested to implement emergency disaster control measures may not refuse support or implementation of emergency disaster control measures except for just cause. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第九十二条第一項（指定行政機関の長等又は他の地方公共団体の長等の応援を受けた場合の災害応急対策に要する費用の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-92/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-92/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