# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第百八条の二十七 (Article 108-27)

- Law: 道路交通法 (Road Traffic Act), 昭和三十五年法律第百五号
- English title "Road Traffic 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: 第百八条の二十七 (Article 108-27)（公安委員会による交通安全教育） — address `art-108-27`
- Text in force since: 2026-07-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-108-27
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-27
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### 第百八条の二十七（公安委員会による交通安全教育） — Traffic Safety Education by Public Safety Commissions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-108-27 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-108-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-27</sup>

**第一項**  公安委員会は、適正な交通の方法及び交通事故防止について住民の理解を深めるため、住民に対する交通安全教育を行うように努めなければならない。
<sup>art-108-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-108-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-27/par-1</sup>
A public safety commission must endeavor to provide residents with traffic safety education in order to deepen their understanding of correct traffic rules and traffic accident prevention.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

## Cited by

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

- 道路交通法 第百八条の二十八第一項（交通安全教育指針及び交通の方法に関する教則の作成） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-108-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-28/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 道路交通法 — the text in force from 2026-07-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000105/20260721_508AC0000000052), retrieved 2026-10-13
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Road Traffic Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2962/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-traffic-act-20261013T073427-015, translated 2026-10-13
- This site's parser, version 190 — 道路交通法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13
