# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第六十八条の三 (Article 68-3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-3. 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: 第六十八条の三 (Article 68-3)（災害派遣の要請の要求等） — address `art-68-3` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-3 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第六十八条の三（災害派遣の要請の要求等） — (Request to Call up Disaster Relief Operation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-68-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-3 **第一項** 市町村長は、当該市町村の地域に係る災害が発生し、又はまさに発生しようとしている場合において、応急措置を実施するため必要があると認めるときは、都道府県知事に対し、自衛隊法第八十三条第一項の規定による要請（次項において「要請」という。）をするよう求めることができる。この場合において、市町村長は、その旨及び当該市町村の地域に係る災害の状況を防衛大臣又はその指定する者に通知することができる。 art-68-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-3/par-1 In cases where a disaster involving an area of a municipality has occurred or is imminent, when the mayor of a municipality finds it necessary for implementing emergency measures, the mayor may ask the prefectural governor to issue a call under Article 83, paragraph (1) of the Self-Defense Forces Act (referred to as "call" in the following paragraph). In this case, the mayor of a municipality may notify the Minister of Defense or the person designated by the Minister to that effect and regarding the conditions of the disaster involving an area of the municipality. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 市町村長は、前項の要求ができない場合には、その旨及び当該市町村の地域に係る災害の状況を防衛大臣又はその指定する者に通知することができる。この場合において、当該通知を受けた防衛大臣又はその指定する者は、その事態に照らし特に緊急を要し、要請を待ついとまがないと認められるときは、人命又は財産の保護のため、要請を待たないで、自衛隊法第八条に規定する部隊等を派遣することができる。 art-68-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-3/par-2 When unable to ask as prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the mayor of a municipality may notify the Minister of Defense or a person designated by the Minister to that effect and regarding the conditions of the disaster involving an area of the municipality. In this case, the Minister of Defense or the person designated by the Minister, having been notified as described above and finding there to be particular urgency and no time to wait for a call in light of the condition, may dispatch the units prescribed in Article 8 of the Self-Defense Forces Act for the protection of life and property without waiting for a Call. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When unable to ask as prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the mayor of a municipality may notify the Minister of Defense or a person designated by the Minister to that effect and regarding the conditions of the disaster involving an area of the municipality. In this case, the Minister of Defense or the person designated by the Minister: having been notified as described above and finding there to be particular urgency and no time to wait for a call in light of the condition, may dispatch the units prescribed in Article 8 of the Self-Defense Forces Act for the protection of life and property without waiting for a Call." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb **第三項** 市町村長は、前二項の通知をしたときは、速やかに、その旨を都道府県知事に通知しなければならない。 art-68-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-3/par-3 When the mayor of a municipality has made the notification set forth in the preceding two paragraphs, the mayor must promptly notify the prefectural governor to that effect. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-68-3/par-1: 自衛隊法第八十三条第一項 → e-Gov law 329AC0000000165, 第八十三条第一項 (Article 83, paragraph (1)), art-83/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-68-3/par-1: 次項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十八条の三第二項 (Article 68-3, paragraph (2)), art-68-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-3/par-2 - art-68-3/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十八条の三第一項 (Article 68-3, paragraph (1)), art-68-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-3/par-1 - art-68-3/par-2: 自衛隊法第八条 → e-Gov law 329AC0000000165, 第八条 (Article 8), art-8 — not held in this collection - art-68-3/par-3: 前二項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十八条の三第一項 (Article 68-3, paragraph (1)), art-68-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-3/par-1 - art-68-3/par-3: 前二項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十八条の三第二項 (Article 68-3, paragraph (2)), art-68-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-3/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第六十八条の三第一項（災害派遣の要請の要求等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-3/par-1 - 災害対策基本法 第六十八条の三第二項（災害派遣の要請の要求等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-3/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 第六十八条の三第三項（災害派遣の要請の要求等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-3/par-3 --- ## 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 68-3, 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch disaster-management-act-20261103T010525-007, 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