# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百二十条の二 (Article 120-2) - 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: 第百二十条の二 (Article 120-2)（都道府県の支援） — address `art-120-2` - 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-120-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-120-2 - 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. --- ### 第百二十条の二（都道府県の支援） — Support by Prefectures caption: machine translation, not official art-120-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-120-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-120-2 **第一項** 都道府県は、第百十七条第五項の規定による市町村の分析を支援するよう努めるものとする。 art-120-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-120-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-120-2/par-1 A prefecture is to endeavor to support the analysis by Municipalities under the provisions of Article 117, paragraph (5). machine translation, not official **第二項** 都道府県は、都道府県内の市町村によるその被保険者の地域における自立した日常生活の支援、要介護状態等となることの予防又は要介護状態等の軽減若しくは悪化の防止及び介護給付等に要する費用の適正化に関する取組を支援する事業として厚生労働省令で定める事業を行うよう努めるものとする。 art-120-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-120-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-120-2/par-2 A prefecture is to endeavor to conduct projects specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as projects supporting the initiatives of Municipalities within the prefecture for supporting independent daily life of their Insured Persons in the community, preventing them from falling into a Condition of Need for Long-Term Care, etc., or reducing or preventing deterioration of a Condition of Need for Long-Term Care, etc., and ensuring the appropriateness of the expenses required for Long-Term Care Benefit, etc. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-120-2/par-1: 第百十七条第五項 → 介護保険法 第百十七条第五項 (Article 117, paragraph (5)), art-117/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-117/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-117/par-5 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百二十二条の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-122-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-122-3/par-2 --- ## 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-20261018T212610-028, 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