# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第百五条 (Article 105) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-105. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 災害対策基本法 (Basic Act on Disaster Management), 昭和三十六年法律第二百二十三号 - English title "Basic Act on Disaster Management": 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: 第百五条 (Article 105)（災害緊急事態の布告） — address `art-105` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-105 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-105 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百五条（災害緊急事態の布告） — (Declaration of a State of Emergency Disaster) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-105 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-105 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-105 **第一項** 非常災害が発生し、かつ、当該災害が国の経済及び公共の福祉に重大な影響を及ぼすべき異常かつ激甚なものである場合において、当該災害に係る災害応急対策を推進し、国の経済の秩序を維持し、その他当該災害に係る重要な課題に対応するため特別の必要があると認めるときは、内閣総理大臣は、閣議にかけて、関係地域の全部又は一部について災害緊急事態の布告を発することができる。 art-105/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-105/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-105/par-1 In cases where an extraordinary disaster has occurred, and the disaster is so abnormal and remarkably severe that it has a serious impact on the State economy and public welfare, when the Prime Minister finds a special necessity to enforce emergency disaster control measures concerning the disaster, preserve the economic order of the State, and address other important issues concerning the disaster, the Prime Minister may declare a state of emergency disaster involving the whole or part of the affected area, after deliberation in a cabinet meeting. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "In cases where an extraordinary disaster has occurred, and the disaster is so abnormal and remarkably severe that it has a serious impact on the State economy and public welfare, when the Prime Minister finds a special necessity to enforce emergency disaster control measures concerning the disaster, preserve the economic order of the State, and address other important issues concerning the disaster, the minister may declare a state of emergency disaster involving the whole or part of the affected area, after deliberation in a cabinet meeting." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb **第二項** 前項の布告には、その区域、布告を必要とする事態の概要及び布告の効力を発する日時を明示しなければならない。 art-105/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-105/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-105/par-2 Such a declaration provided for under the preceding paragraph must specify the area concerned, give an outline of the situation warranting such action, and set the date and time when the declaration takes effect. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-105/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第百五条第一項 (Article 105, paragraph (1)), art-105/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-105/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-105/par-1 ## Cited by 10 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第百五条第二項（災害緊急事態の布告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-105/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-105/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 第百六条第一項（国会の承認及び布告の廃止） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-106/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-106/par-1 - 災害対策基本法 第百七条第一項（災害緊急事態における緊急災害対策本部の設置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-107/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-107/par-1 - 災害対策基本法 第百八条第一項（対処基本方針） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-108/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-108/par-1 - 災害対策基本法 第百八条の二第一項（情報の公表） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-108-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-108-2/par-1 - 災害対策基本法 第百八条の三第一項（国民への協力の要求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-108-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-108-3/par-1 - 災害対策基本法 第百八条の四第一項（災害緊急事態の布告に伴う特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-108-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-108-4/par-1 - 災害対策基本法 第百八条の四第二項（災害緊急事態の布告に伴う特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-108-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-108-4/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 第百八条の五第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-108-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-108-5/par-1 - 災害対策基本法 第百八条の五第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-108-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-108-5/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Basic Act on Disaster Management, written 2026-11-03 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 災害対策基本法 — the text in force from 2026-11-02 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/336AC0000000223/20261102_508AC0000000062), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Basic Act on Disaster Management (災害対策基本法), Article 105, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Basic Act on Disaster Management — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 221 — 災害対策基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02