# 次世代育成支援対策推進法 / Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children — 第五条 (Article 5) - 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: 第五条 (Article 5)（事業主の責務） — address `art-5` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（事業主の責務） — (Responsibilities of Employers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-5 **第一項** 事業主は、基本理念にのっとり、その雇用する労働者に係る多様な労働条件の整備、育児休業を取得しやすい職場環境の形成、労働時間の短縮の取組その他の労働者の職業生活と家庭生活との両立が図られるようにするために必要な雇用環境の整備を行うことにより自ら次世代育成支援対策を実施するよう努めるとともに、国又は地方公共団体が講ずる次世代育成支援対策に協力しなければならない。 art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-5/par-1 In accordance with the fundamental principles, an employer must endeavor to implement measures to support raising next-generation children on their own initiative by improving the various working conditions of the workers they employ, creating a work environment that makes it easier for workers to take childcare leave, making efforts to shorten the working hours, and otherwise developing an employment environment necessary for allowing workers to balance their professional and domestic lives, and must cooperate with the measures to support raising next-generation children taken by the national government or local governments. 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