# 少年法 / Juveniles Act — 第二十五条の二 (Article 25-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-25-2. 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: 少年法 (Juveniles Act), 昭和二十三年法律第百六十八号 - English title "Juveniles 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: 第二十五条の二 (Article 25-2)（保護者に対する措置） — address `art-25-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-25-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-25-2 - 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. --- ### 第二十五条の二（保護者に対する措置） — (Measures for the Parent or Guardian) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-25-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-25-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-25-2 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、必要があると認めるときは、保護者に対し、少年の監護に関する責任を自覚させ、その非行を防止するため、調査又は審判において、自ら訓戒、指導その他の適当な措置をとり、又は家庭裁判所調査官に命じてこれらの措置をとらせることができる。 art-25-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-25-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-25-2/par-1 The family court may give direct admonition or guidance to, or take other appropriate measures with the parent or guardian during an investigation or trial and decision, if it is found necessary, to make them aware of their responsibility for the custody of the juvenile, preventing the juvenile from committing further acts of delinquency, or may order a family court investigating officer to take these measures. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The family court may give direct admonition or guidance to, or take other appropriate measures with the parent or guardian during an investigation or hearing and decision, if it is found necessary, to make them aware of their responsibility for the custody of the juvenile, preventing the juvenile from committing further acts of delinquency, or may order a family court investigating officer to take these measures." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4827/tb --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Juveniles Act, written 2026-11-03 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 少年法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000168/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Juveniles Act (少年法), Article 25-2, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4827/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Juveniles Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4827/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 220 — 少年法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02