# 次世代育成支援対策推進法 / Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children — 第一条 (Article 1) - Law: 次世代育成支援対策推進法 (Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children), 平成十五年法律第百二十号 - English title "Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children": 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: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/next-generation-support-act/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/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） — (Purpose) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/next-generation-support-act/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、我が国における急速な少子化の進行並びに家庭及び地域を取り巻く環境の変化にかんがみ、次世代育成支援対策に関し、基本理念を定め、並びに国、地方公共団体、事業主及び国民の責務を明らかにするとともに、行動計画策定指針並びに地方公共団体及び事業主の行動計画の策定その他の次世代育成支援対策を推進するために必要な事項を定めることにより、次世代育成支援対策を迅速かつ重点的に推進し、もって次代の社会を担う子どもが健やかに生まれ、かつ、育成される社会の形成に資することを目的とする。 art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/next-generation-support-act/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-1/par-1 The purpose of this Act is to swiftly and thoroughly promote measures to support raising next-generation children by establishing fundamental principles and clarifying the responsibilities of the national government, local governments, employers, and the people regarding the measures to support raising the next-generation children, as well as by establishing guidelines for the formulation of action plans, action plans of local governments and employers, and other matters necessary for promoting the measures to support raising the next-generation children, considering the rapid decline in the birth rate in Japan and changes in the environment surrounding families and local communities, thereby contributing to the formation of a society in which the children who are to build a society of the next generation will be born and raised in good health. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The purpose of this Act is to swiftly and thoroughly promote measures to support raising next-generation children by establishing fundamental principles and clarifying the responsibilities of the national government, local governments, employers, and the people regarding the measures to support raising the next- generation children, as well as by establishing guidelines for the formulation of action plans, action plans of local governments and employers, and other matters necessary for promoting the measures to support raising the next-generation children, considering the rapid decline in the birth rate in Japan and changes in the environment surrounding families and local communities, thereby contributing to the formation of a society in which the children who are to build a society of the next generation will be born and raised in good health." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5162/tb --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children, written 2026-10-19 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 次世代育成支援対策推進法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000120/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5162/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children (次世代育成支援対策推進法), Article 1, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5162/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 201 — 次世代育成支援対策推進法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19