# 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 / Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities — 第六条 (Article 6) - Law: 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 (Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities), 昭和三十五年法律第百二十三号 - English title "Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities": 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: 第六条 (Article 6)（国及び地方公共団体の責務） — address `art-6` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-6 - 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. --- ### 第六条（国及び地方公共団体の責務） — (Responsibilities of the National and Local Governments) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-6 **第一項** 国及び地方公共団体は、自ら率先して障害者を雇用するとともに、障害者の雇用について事業主その他国民一般の理解を高めるほか、事業主、障害者その他の関係者に対する援助の措置及び障害者の特性に配慮した職業リハビリテーションの措置を講ずる等障害者の雇用の促進及びその職業の安定を図るために必要な施策を、障害者の福祉に関する施策との有機的な連携を図りつつ総合的かつ効果的に推進するように努めなければならない。 art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-6/par-1 As well as taking the initiative in employing persons with disabilities and in addition to increasing the understanding of employers and the people in general with regard to the employment of persons with disabilities, the national and local governments must endeavor to comprehensively and effectively advance the necessary measures to facilitate the employment of persons with disabilities and achieve employment stability for them, including taking measures to assist employers, persons with disabilities, and other relevant persons and taking vocational rehabilitation measures that are mindful of the attributes of persons with disabilities. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000123/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-18 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3845/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18 - This site's parser, version 209 — 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18