# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第二条 (Article 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: 第二条 (Article 2)（介護保険） — address `art-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-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二条（介護保険） — (Long-Term Care Insurance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-2 **第一項** 介護保険は、被保険者の要介護状態又は要支援状態（以下「要介護状態等」という。）に関し、必要な保険給付を行うものとする。 art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-2/par-1 Long-Term Care Insurance provides necessary insurance benefits for a Condition of Need for Long-Term Care or for a Needed Support Condition (herein referred to as a "Condition of Need for Long-Term Care, etc.") of the insured person. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の保険給付は、要介護状態等の軽減又は悪化の防止に資するよう行われるとともに、医療との連携に十分配慮して行われなければならない。 art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-2/par-2 Insurance benefits as set forth in the preceding paragraph are provided in order to contribute to reduction or prevention of aggravation of a Condition of Need for Long-Term Care, etc., and must be provided with careful attention to cooperation with medical care. machine translation, not official **第三項** 第一項の保険給付は、被保険者の心身の状況、その置かれている環境等に応じて、被保険者の選択に基づき、適切な保健医療サービス及び福祉サービスが、多様な事業者又は施設から、総合的かつ効率的に提供されるよう配慮して行われなければならない。 art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-2/par-3 Insurance benefits as set forth in paragraph (1) must be provided in consideration of the appropriate health and medical services and public aid services that are offered by diverse providers and facilities comprehensively and effectively, according to the physical and mental conditions of the insured person, said person's environment, etc., and based on the preferences of the insured person. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第一項の保険給付の内容及び水準は、被保険者が要介護状態となった場合においても、可能な限り、その居宅において、その有する能力に応じ自立した日常生活を営むことができるように配慮されなければならない。 art-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-2/par-4 With regard to the contents and level of insurance benefits as set forth in paragraph (1), consideration must be made so that said person is able to live an independent daily life according to that person's own abilities in his or her home as much as possible, although said insured person becomes in a Condition of Need for Long-Term Care. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-2/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-2/par-1 - art-2/par-3: 第一項 → 介護保険法 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-2/par-1 - art-2/par-4: 第一項 → 介護保険法 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-2/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第二条第二項（介護保険） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-2/par-2 - 介護保険法 第二条第三項（介護保険） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-2/par-3 - 介護保険法 第二条第四項（介護保険） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-2/par-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-20261018T212610-001, 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