# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百十八条の五 (Article 118-5)

- 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: 第百十八条の五 (Article 118-5)（消去） — address `art-118-5`
- 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-118-5
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-118-5
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### 第百十八条の五（消去） — Deletion
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-118-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-118-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-118-5</sup>

**第一項**  匿名介護保険等関連情報利用者は、提供を受けた匿名介護保険等関連情報を利用する必要がなくなったときは、遅滞なく、当該匿名介護保険等関連情報を消去しなければならない。
<sup>art-118-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-118-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-118-5/par-1</sup>
A user of anonymized long-term care insurance-related information must, when it is no longer necessary to use the anonymized long-term care insurance-related information provided to the user, delete that anonymized long-term care insurance-related information without delay.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 介護保険法 第百十八条の九第一項（是正命令） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-118-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-118-9/par-1

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## 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch long-term-care-insurance-act-20261018T203319-035, translated 2026-10-19
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch long-term-care-insurance-act-20261018T212610-028, translated 2026-10-19
- This site's parser, version 209 — 介護保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18
