# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第十八条 (Article 18) - 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: 第十八条 (Article 18)（保険給付の種類） — address `art-18` - 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-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-18 - 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. --- ### 第十八条（保険給付の種類） — (Types of Insurance Benefits) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-18 **第一項** この法律による保険給付は、次に掲げる保険給付とする。 art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-18/par-1 Insurance benefits provided by this Act shall be the following insurance benefits: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 被保険者の要介護状態に関する保険給付（以下「介護給付」という。） art-18/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-18/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-18/par-1/item-1 insurance benefits pertaining to the Condition of Need for Long-Term Care of an Insured Person (hereinafter referred to as "Long-Term Care Benefit"); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 被保険者の要支援状態に関する保険給付（以下「予防給付」という。） art-18/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-18/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-18/par-1/item-2 insurance benefits pertaining to the Needed Support Condition of an Insured Person (herein referred to as "Prevention Benefit"); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 前二号に掲げるもののほか、要介護状態等の軽減又は悪化の防止に資する保険給付として条例で定めるもの（第五節において「市町村特別給付」という。） art-18/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-18/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-18/par-1/item-3 in addition to what is listed in the preceding two items, insurance benefits specified by a Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance as insurance benefits that contribute to the reduction or prevention of deterioration of a Condition of Need for Long-Term Care, etc. (hereinafter referred to as "Municipal Special Benefit" in Section V). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-18/par-1/item-3: 前二号 → 介護保険法 第十八条第一項第一号 (Article 18, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-18/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-18/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-18/par-1/item-1 - art-18/par-1/item-3: 前二号 → 介護保険法 第十八条第一項第二号 (Article 18, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-18/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-18/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-18/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第十八条第一項第三号（保険給付の種類） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-18/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-18/par-1/item-3 - 介護保険法 附則第三条第一項（介護保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-3/par-1 - 介護保険法 附則第三条第二項（介護保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-3/par-2 - 住民基本台帳法 別表第二 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-2 - 住民基本台帳法 別表第四 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-4 --- ## 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-20261018T212610-002, 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