# 次世代育成支援対策推進法 / Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children — 第二条 (Article 2) - 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: 第二条 (Article 2)（定義） — address `art-2` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/next-generation-support-act/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（定義） — (Definitions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/next-generation-support-act/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-2 **第一項** この法律において「次世代育成支援対策」とは、次代の社会を担う子どもを育成し、又は育成しようとする家庭に対する支援その他の次代の社会を担う子どもが健やかに生まれ、かつ、育成される環境の整備のための国若しくは地方公共団体が講ずる施策又は事業主が行う雇用環境の整備その他の取組をいう。 art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/next-generation-support-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-2/par-1 The term "measures to support raising next-generation children" as used in this Act means measures implemented by the national government or a local government to support families that are raising or seeking to raise children who will build a society of the next generation, and other measures to create an environment in which children can be born and raised in good health, or measures implemented by employers to improve the employment environment and other efforts. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 租税特別措置法 第十条の五の四第二項第二号イ（給与等の支給額が増加した場合の所得税額の特別控除） — https://japanlaw.org/en/special-taxation-measures-act/art-10-5-4/par-2/item-2/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-10-5-4/par-2/item-2/sub-1 - 租税特別措置法 第四十二条の十二の五第二項第二号イ（給与等の支給額が増加した場合の法人税額の特別控除） — https://japanlaw.org/en/special-taxation-measures-act/art-42-12-5/par-2/item-2/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-42-12-5/par-2/item-2/sub-1 --- ## Sources - 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 - 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