# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第八十七条 (Article 87) - 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: 第八十七条 (Article 87)（指定介護老人福祉施設の基準） — address `art-87` - 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-87 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-87 - 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. --- ### 第八十七条（指定介護老人福祉施設の基準） — (Standards of a Designated Facility Covered by Public Aid Providing Long-Term Care to the Elderly) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-87 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-87 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-87 **第一項** 指定介護老人福祉施設の開設者は、次条第二項に規定する指定介護老人福祉施設の設備及び運営に関する基準に従い、要介護者の心身の状況等に応じて適切な指定介護福祉施設サービスを提供するとともに、自らその提供する指定介護福祉施設サービスの質の評価を行うことその他の措置を講ずることにより常に指定介護福祉施設サービスを受ける者の立場に立ってこれを提供するように努めなければならない。 art-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-87/par-1 An establisher of a Designated Facility Covered by Public Aid Providing Long-Term Care to the Elderly must act in compliance with the standards concerning facilities and management of a Designated Facility Covered by Public Aid Providing Long-Term Care to the Elderly as prescribed in paragraph (2) of the following Article, offer an appropriate Designated Facility Covered by Public Aid Providing Long-Term Care to the Elderly according to the mental and physical condition, etc., of a Person Requiring Long-Term Care, and always engage in offering said services from the viewpoint of the person that receives Designated Facility Covered by Public Aid Providing Long-Term Care to the Elderly by implementing self-evaluation of the quality of the Provider's own Designated Facility Covered by Public Aid Providing Long-Term Care to the Elderly and other measures. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "An organizer of a Designated Facility Covered by Public Aid Providing Long-Term Care to the Elderly must act in compliance with the standards concerning facilities and management of a Designated Facility Covered by Public Aid Providing Long-Term Care to the Elderly as prescribed in paragraph (2) of the following Article, offer an appropriate Designated Facility Covered by Public Aid Providing Long-Term Care to the Elderly according to the mental and physical condition, etc., of a Person Requiring Long-Term Care, and always engage in offering said services from the viewpoint of the person that receives Designated Facility Covered by Public Aid Providing Long-Term Care to the Elderly by implementing self-evaluation of the quality of the Provider's own Designated Facility Covered by Public Aid Providing Long-Term Care to the Elderly and other measures." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb **第二項** 指定介護老人福祉施設の開設者は、指定介護福祉施設サービスを受けようとする被保険者から提示された被保険者証に、認定審査会意見が記載されているときは、当該認定審査会意見に配慮して、当該被保険者に当該指定介護福祉施設サービスを提供するように努めなければならない。 art-87/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-87/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-87/par-2 An establisher of a Designated Facility Service for Long-Term Care Covered by Public Aid, when an Opinion of the Certification Committee is entered on the Certificate of Insured Person that is presented by an Insured Person that intends to receive Designated Facility Service for Long-Term Care Covered by Public Aid, must engage in offering said Designated Facility Covered by Public Aid Providing Long-Term Care to the Elderly of said Insured Person in consideration of said Opinion of the Certification Committee. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "An organizer of a Designated Facility Service for Long-Term Care Covered by Public Aid, when an Opinion of the Certification Committee is entered on the Certificate of Insured Person that is presented by an Insured Person that intends to receive Designated Facility Service for Long-Term Care Covered by Public Aid, must engage in offering said Designated Facility Covered by Public Aid Providing Long-Term Care to the Elderly of said Insured Person in consideration of said Opinion of the Certification Committee." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb --- ## Cites - art-87/par-1: 次条第二項 → 介護保険法 第八十八条第二項 (Article 88, paragraph (2)), art-88/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-88/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-88/par-2 --- ## 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 87, paragraph (1) — 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 87, paragraph (2) — 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