# 次世代育成支援対策推進法 / Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children — 第三条 (Article 3) - Law: 次世代育成支援対策推進法 (Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children), 平成十五年法律第百二十号 - English title "Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children": 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: 第三条 (Article 3)（基本理念） — address `art-3` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（基本理念） — (Fundamental Principles) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-3 **第一項** 次世代育成支援対策は、父母その他の保護者が子育てについての第一義的責任を有するという基本的認識の下に、家庭その他の場において、子育ての意義についての理解が深められ、かつ、子育てに伴う喜びが実感されるように配慮して行われなければならない。 art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-3/par-1 Based on the fundamental idea that parents and other guardians have the primary responsibility for childcare, measures to support raising next-generation children must be implemented with due consideration to improve the understanding of the significance of childcare and to allow parents and other guardians to experience the joy that comes from childrearing, both in domestic life and in other circumstances. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第四条第一項（国及び地方公共団体の責務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-4/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 次世代育成支援対策推進法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000120/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5162/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 201 — 次世代育成支援対策推進法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19