# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第一条 (Article 1) - Law: 介護保険法 (Long-Term Care Insurance Act), 平成九年法律第百二十三号 - English title "Long-Term Care 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: 第一条 (Article 1)（目的） — address `art-1` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（目的） — (Purposes) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、加齢に伴って生ずる心身の変化に起因する疾病等により要介護状態となり、入浴、排せつ、食事等の介護、機能訓練並びに看護及び療養上の管理その他の医療を要する者等について、これらの者が尊厳を保持し、その有する能力に応じ自立した日常生活を営むことができるよう、必要な保健医療サービス及び福祉サービスに係る給付を行うため、国民の共同連帯の理念に基づき介護保険制度を設け、その行う保険給付等に関して必要な事項を定め、もって国民の保健医療の向上及び福祉の増進を図ることを目的とする。 art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-1/par-1 The purposes of this Act are to improve health and medical care and to enhance the welfare of citizens. With regard to people who are under condition of need for long-term care due to disease, etc., as a result of physical or emotional changes caused by aging, and who require care such as for bathing, bodily waste elimination, meals, etc., and require the functional training, nursing, management of medical treatment, and other medical care, these purposes are to be accomplished by establishing a long-term care insurance system based on the principle of the cooperation of citizens, solidarity, and determining necessary matters concerning related insurance benefits, etc., in order to provide benefits pertaining to necessary health and medical services and public aid services so that these people are able to maintain dignity and an independent daily life routine according to each person's own level of abilities. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百六十条第一項（機構の業務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-160/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-160/par-1 - 介護保険法 第百六十条第二項（機構の業務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-160/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-160/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 介護保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/409AC0000000123/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-18 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Long-Term Care Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18 - This site's parser, version 209 — 介護保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18