# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百三十六条 (Article 136) - Law: 健康保険法 (Health Insurance Act), 大正十一年法律第七十号 - English title "Health Insurance Act": 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: 第百三十六条 (Article 136)（埋葬料） — address `art-136` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-136 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-136 - 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. --- ### 第百三十六条（埋葬料） — (Burial Charges) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-136 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-136 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-136 **第一項** 日雇特例被保険者が死亡した場合において、その死亡の日の属する月の前二月間に通算して二十六日分以上若しくは当該月の前六月間に通算して七十八日分以上の保険料がその者について納付されているとき、その死亡の際その者が療養の給付若しくは保険外併用療養費、療養費若しくは訪問看護療養費の支給を受けていたとき、又はその死亡が療養の給付若しくは保険外併用療養費、療養費若しくは訪問看護療養費の支給を受けなくなった日後三月以内であったときは、その者により生計を維持していた者であって、埋葬を行うものに対し、第百条第一項の政令で定める金額の埋葬料を支給する。 art-136/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-136/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-136/par-1 When a specially-insured day laborer dies, insurance premiums had been paid for the laborer for 26 days or more in total in the two months preceding the month including the day of death or for 78 days or more in total in the six months preceding that month, and the laborer received benefits for medical treatment, or payment of medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses, or medical expenses for home nursing at the time of death, or the death was within three days since the day of loss of benefits for medical treatment, or payment of medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses, or medical expenses for home nursing, the amount of burial charges specified by Cabinet Order referred to in Article 100, paragraph (1) is paid to the person whose livelihood depends on the income of the laborer and who arranged the burial. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により埋葬料の支給を受けるべき者がない場合においては、埋葬を行った者に対し、同項の埋葬料の金額の範囲内においてその埋葬に要した費用に相当する金額を支給する。 art-136/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-136/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-136/par-2 If there is no one to receive burial charges pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, an amount equivalent to the expenses required for the burial within the range of amount of burial charges referred to in the preceding paragraph is paid to the person who arranged the burial. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-136/par-1: 第百条第一項 → 健康保険法 第百条第一項 (Article 100, paragraph (1)), art-100/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-100/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-100/par-1 - art-136/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第百三十六条第一項 (Article 136, paragraph (1)), art-136/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-136/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-136/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第百三十五条第一項（傷病手当金） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-135/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-135/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百三十六条第二項（埋葬料） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-136/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-136/par-2 - 健康保険法 附則第六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-6/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 健康保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/211AC0000000070/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Health Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10 - This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10