# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第五十二条 (Article 52) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-52. 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: 第五十二条 (Article 52)（防災信号） — address `art-52` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-52 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-52 - 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. --- ### 第五十二条（防災信号） — (Signals for Disaster Management) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-52 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-52 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-52 **第一項** 市町村長が災害に関する警報の発令及び伝達、警告並びに避難の指示のため使用する防災に関する信号の種類、内容及び様式又は方法については、他の法令に特別の定めがある場合を除くほか、防災庁令で定める。 art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-52/par-1 The kinds, content, and forms or methods of signals relating to disaster management that the mayor of a municipality employs in the issuance and transmission of alarms, warnings, and instructions for evacuation concerning disasters are prescribed by Disaster Management Agency Order, except as otherwise specially provided for by other laws and regulations. machine translation, not official **第二項** 何人も、みだりに前項の信号又はこれに類似する信号を使用してはならない。 art-52/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-52/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-52/par-2 No person may be permitted to employ a signal prescribed in the preceding paragraph or similar signals without good reason. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-52/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第五十二条第一項 (Article 52, paragraph (1)), art-52/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-52/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第五十二条第二項（防災信号） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-52/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-52/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 第百十六条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-116/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-116/par-1/item-1 --- ## Sources - 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 — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch disaster-management-act-20261103T010525-006, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 221 — 災害対策基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02