# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第六条の二 (Article 6-2) - Law: 医療法 (Medical Care Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二百五号 - English title "Medical Care 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: 第六条の二 (Article 6-2) — address `art-6-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-2 - 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. --- ### 第六条の二 art-6-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-2 **第一項** 国及び地方公共団体は、医療を受ける者が病院、診療所又は助産所の選択に関して必要な情報を容易に得られるように、必要な措置を講ずるよう努めなければならない。 art-6-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-2/par-1 National government and local governments must endeavor to undertake the necessary measures to enable medical care recipients to easily acquire the necessary information for choosing a hospital, clinic, or birthing center. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 医療提供施設の開設者及び管理者は、医療を受ける者が保健医療サービスの選択を適切に行うことができるように、当該医療提供施設の提供する医療について、正確かつ適切な情報を提供するとともに、患者又はその家族からの相談に適切に応ずるよう努めなければならない。 art-6-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-2/par-2 Establishers and administrators of medical institutions must endeavor to provide accurate and well-suited information on the medical care provided thereby, and to appropriately respond to queries from patients or their families, to enable medical care recipients to choose appropriate health and medical services. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Organizers and administrators of medical institutions must endeavor to provide accurate and well-suited information on the medical care provided thereby, and to appropriately respond to queries from patients or their families, to enable medical care recipients to choose appropriate health and medical services." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb **第三項** 国民は、良質かつ適切な医療の効率的な提供に資するよう、医療提供施設相互間の機能の分担及び業務の連携の重要性についての理解を深め、医療提供施設の機能に応じ、医療に関する選択を適切に行い、医療を適切に受けるよう努めなければならない。 art-6-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-2/par-3 In order to contribute to the efficient provision of high-quality and appropriate medical care, citizens must endeavor to deepen their understanding of the importance of the sharing of functions and the coordination of operations among medical institutions, and to choose and receive medical care appropriately according to the functions of medical institutions. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## 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) — 医療法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000205/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Care Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Care Act (医療法), Article 6-2, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19