# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百十八条の四 (Article 118-4) - Law: 介護保険法 (Long-Term Care Insurance Act), 平成九年法律第百二十三号 - English title "Long-Term Care Insurance 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: 第百十八条の四 (Article 118-4)（照合等の禁止） — address `art-118-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-118-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-118-4 - 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. --- ### 第百十八条の四（照合等の禁止） — Prohibition of Collation, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-118-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-118-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-118-4 **第一項** 前条第一項の規定により匿名介護保険等関連情報の提供を受け、これを利用する者（以下「匿名介護保険等関連情報利用者」という。）は、匿名介護保険等関連情報を取り扱うに当たっては、当該匿名介護保険等関連情報の作成に用いられた介護保険等関連情報に係る本人を識別するために、当該介護保険等関連情報から削除された記述等（文書、図画若しくは電磁的記録（電磁的方式（電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によっては認識することができない方式をいう。）で作られる記録をいう。）に記載され、若しくは記録され、又は音声、動作その他の方法を用いて表された一切の事項をいう。）若しくは匿名介護保険等関連情報の作成に用いられた加工の方法に関する情報を取得し、又は当該匿名介護保険等関連情報を他の情報と照合してはならない。 art-118-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-118-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-118-4/par-1 A person who has been provided with and uses anonymized long-term care insurance-related information pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as "user of anonymized long-term care insurance-related information"), in handling anonymized long-term care insurance-related information, must not acquire descriptions, etc. deleted from the long-term care insurance-related information (meaning any and all matters stated or recorded in a document, drawing or electromagnetic record (meaning a record made in an electromagnetic format (meaning an electronic format, a magnetic format, or any other format not recognizable to human perception)), or expressed by voice, movement or other methods) or information on the processing methods used in producing the anonymized long-term care insurance-related information, in order to identify the person themselves pertaining to the long-term care insurance-related information used in producing said anonymized long-term care insurance-related information, or collate said anonymized long-term care insurance-related information with other information. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-118-4/par-1: 前条第一項 → 介護保険法 第百十八条の三第一項 (Article 118-3, paragraph (1)), art-118-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-118-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-118-3/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百十八条の三第一項（国民の保健医療の向上及び福祉の増進のための匿名介護保険等関連情報の利用又は提供） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-118-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-118-3/par-1 - 介護保険法 第百十八条の九第一項（是正命令） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-118-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-118-9/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 介護保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/409AC0000000123/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-18 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Long-Term Care Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch long-term-care-insurance-act-20261018T203319-035, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 209 — 介護保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18