Basic Act for National Resilience Contributing to Preventing and Mitigating Disasters for Developing Resilience in the Lives of the Citizenry (Act No. 95 of 2013).

The present Act aims to establish basic principles and clarify the responsibility of the national government concerning the promotion of initiatives aiming to achieve the goal of making all the national land more resilient to large-scale natural disasters that may exert tremendous influence on the lives of the citizens and the national economy, which are initiatives that will contribute to disaster prevention and mitigation, swift recovery and reconstruction from disasters and enhancement of Japan's international competitiveness; decide the matters concerning the establishment of the Fundamental Plan for National Resilience and other matters to be the basis of the measures for building National Resilience; and set up the National Resilience Promotion Headquarters, thereby promoting measures concerning National Resilience in a comprehensive and systematic manner, and also contributing to securing public welfare, enhancing the lives of the citizenry and achieving sound development of the national economy. The text consists of 28 articles divided into 5 chapters as follows: General provisions (1); Basic policies (2); Fundamental Plan for National Resilience (3); National Resilience Promotion Headquarters (4); Miscellaneous provisions (5).