# 職業安定法 / Employment Security Act — 第六条 (Article 6) - Law: 職業安定法 (Employment Security Act), 昭和二十二年法律第百四十一号 - English title "Employment Security 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: 第六条 (Article 6)（職業安定主管局長の権限） — address `art-6` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-6 - 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. --- ### 第六条（職業安定主管局長の権限） — (Authority of the Director-General of the Main Employment Security Bureau) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-6 **第一項** 職業安定主管局（厚生労働省の内部部局として置かれる局で職業紹介及び職業指導その他職業の安定に関する事務を所掌するものをいう。第九条において同じ。）の局長（以下「職業安定主管局長」という。）は、厚生労働大臣の指揮監督を受け、この法律の施行に関する事項について、都道府県労働局長を指揮監督するとともに、公共職業安定所の指揮監督に関する基準の制定、産業に必要な労働力を充足するための対策の企画及び実施、失業対策の企画及び実施、労働力の需要供給を調整するための主要労働力需要供給圏の決定、職業指導の企画及び実施その他この法律の施行に関し必要な事務をつかさどり、所属の職員を指揮監督する。 art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-6/par-1 The Director-General of the main employment security bureau (hereinafter referred to as the "Director-General"), an internal bureau of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare responsible for employment placement, career guidance, and other employment stability-related matters (the same applies in Article 9), operates under the direction and supervision of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. The Director-General oversees and directs prefectural Labour Bureau Chiefs in matters related to the implementation of this law; The Director-General is also responsible for establishing standards for supervision of public employment security offices, planning and implementing measures to meet the labor needs of industries, planning and implementing unemployment countermeasures, determining the primary labor supplies and demanding zones to balance labor supply and demand, planning and implementing career guidance, managing other necessary tasks related to the implementation of this law, and directing and supervising the staff under their jurisdiction. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The Director-General of the main employment security bureau (hereinafter referred to as the "Director-General", an internal bureau of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare responsible for employment placement, career guidance, and other employment stability-related matters (the same applies in Article 9), operates under the direction and supervision of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. The Director-General oversees and directs prefectural Labour Bureau Chiefs in matters related to the implementation of this law; The Director-General is also responsible for establishing standards for supervision of public employment security offices, planning and implementing measures to meet the labor needs of industries planning and implementing unemployment countermeasures, determining the primary labor supplies and demanding zones to balance labor supply and demand, planning and implementing career guidance, managing other necessary tasks related to the implementation of this law, and directing and supervising the staff under their jurisdiction." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4627/tb --- ## Cites - art-6/par-1: 第九条 → 職業安定法 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-9 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Slips in the Ministry of Justice's English of the Employment Security Act, corrected, written 2026-10-18 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 職業安定法 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000141/20260401_506AC0000000050), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employment Security Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4627/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employment Security Act (職業安定法), Article 6, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4627/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - This site's parser, version 209 — 職業安定法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17