# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百二十二条 (Article 122) - 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: 第百二十二条 (Article 122)（調整交付金等） — address `art-122` - 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-122 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-122 - 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. --- ### 第百二十二条（調整交付金等） — (Adjusting Subsidies) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-122 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-122 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-122 **第一項** 国は、介護保険の財政の調整を行うため、第一号被保険者の年齢階級別の分布状況、第一号被保険者の所得の分布状況等を考慮して、政令で定めるところにより、市町村に対して調整交付金を交付する。 art-122/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-122/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-122/par-1 The national government provides Adjusting Subsidies to a Municipality pursuant to the provisions of a Cabinet Order, in order to adjust the finances of Long-Term Care Insurance by taking into consideration the distribution by age group of Primary Insured Persons, distribution of income of Primary Insured Persons, etc.; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による調整交付金の総額は、各市町村の前条第一項に規定する介護給付及び予防給付に要する費用の額（同条第二項の規定の適用がある場合にあっては、同項の規定を適用して算定した額。次項において同じ。）の総額の百分の五に相当する額とする。 art-122/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-122/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-122/par-2 The total amount of Adjusting Subsidies pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is to be the amount equivalent to 5 percent of the total amount of costs necessary for Long-Term Care Benefits and Prevention Benefits as prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article for each Municipality (in a case when the provisions of paragraph (2) of the same Article apply, the amount calculated by applying the provisions of the same paragraph; the same applies in the following paragraph). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The total amount of Adjusting Subsidies pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is to be the amount equivalent to 5 percent of the total amount of costs necessary for Long-Term Care Benefits and Prevention Benefits as prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding paragraph for each Municipality (in a case when the provisions of paragraph (2) of the same Article apply, the amount calculated by applying the provisions of the same paragraph; the same applies in the following paragraph)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb **第三項** 毎年度分として交付すべき調整交付金の総額は、当該年度における各市町村の前条第一項に規定する介護給付及び予防給付に要する費用の額の見込額の総額の百分の五に相当する額に当該年度の前年度以前の年度における調整交付金で、まだ交付していない額を加算し、又は当該前年度以前の年度において交付すべきであった額を超えて交付した額を当該見込額の総額の百分の五に相当する額から減額した額とする。 art-122/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-122/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-122/par-3 The total amount of Adjusting Subsidies to be granted as a portion of each fiscal year is to be the amount equivalent to 5 percent of the total prospective amount of costs necessary for Long-Term Care Benefits and Prevention Benefits as prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article in each Municipality in said fiscal year, plus the amount of Adjusting Subsidies for the fiscal year prior to the year previous to said fiscal year that have not yet been provided, or the amount equivalent to 5 percent of said total prospective amount, minus an amount that is the portion provided that exceeded the amount to be provided in prior fiscal years of the year previous to said fiscal year. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The total amount of Adjusting Subsidies to be granted as a portion of each fiscal year is to be the amount equivalent to 5 percent of the total prospective amount of costs necessary for Long-Term Care Benefits and Prevention Benefits as prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding paragraph in each Municipality in said fiscal year, plus the amount of Adjusting Subsidies for the fiscal year prior to the year previous to said fiscal year that have not yet been provided, or the amount equivalent to 5 percent of said total prospective amount, minus an amount that is the portion provided that exceeded the amount to be provided in prior fiscal years of the year previous to said fiscal year." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb --- ## Cites - art-122/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第百二十二条第一項 (Article 122, paragraph (1)), art-122/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-122/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-122/par-1 - art-122/par-2: 前条第一項 → 介護保険法 第百二十一条第一項 (Article 121, paragraph (1)), art-121/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-121/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-121/par-1 - art-122/par-2: 同条第二項 → 介護保険法 第百二十一条第二項 (Article 121, paragraph (2)), art-121/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-121/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-121/par-2 - art-122/par-2: 次項 → 介護保険法 第百二十二条第三項 (Article 122, paragraph (3)), art-122/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-122/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-122/par-3 - art-122/par-3: 前条第一項 → 介護保険法 第百二十一条第一項 (Article 121, paragraph (1)), art-121/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-121/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-121/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百二十二条第二項（調整交付金等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-122/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-122/par-2 - 介護保険法 第百二十二条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-122-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-122-3/par-1 - 介護保険法 第百二十七条第一項（国の補助） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-127/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-127/par-1 - 介護保険法 第百四十八条第二項（市町村相互財政安定化事業） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-148/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-148/par-2 - 介護保険法 附則第十五条第一項（調整交付金等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4261-83/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4261-83/art-15/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Long-Term Care Insurance Act (介護保険法), Article 122, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Long-Term Care Insurance Act (介護保険法), Article 122, paragraph (3) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18 - This site's parser, version 209 — 介護保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18