Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs
行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律
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The national government bodies listed in Article 2(1): bodies placed in the Cabinet (内閣) under an Act (法律) or placed under the Cabinet’s jurisdiction; the Cabinet Office (内閣府), the Imperial Household Agency (宮内庁) and the commissions and agencies placed under Article 49(1) and (2) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office; the ministries, commissions and agencies provided for in Article 3(2) of the National Government Organization Act; the facilities (such as research institutions and training facilities) and special bodies (特別の機関) placed within these that a Cabinet Order (政令) names; and the Board of Audit (会計検査院).
次に掲げる機関
A request, which anyone may make under Article 3 by submitting a written request for disclosure (開示請求書) to the head of an administrative organ (行政機関), for disclosure of an administrative document (行政文書) that organ holds.
A request, which anyone may make under Article 3 by submitting a written request for disclosure (開示請求書) to the head of an administrative organ (行政機関), for disclosure of an administrative document (行政文書) that organ holds.
同法第四条第一項に規定する開示請求
Documents, drawings and electronic or magnetic records (電磁的記録) that employees of an administrative organ (行政機関) have made or obtained in their work and that the organ holds for its employees' organizational use, except publications issued for sale to the general public such as the official gazette (官報), white papers and books; specified historical public records (特定歴史公文書等), the historical records moved to, or donated to or deposited with, the National Archives (国立公文書館) and similar archives under the Public Records and Archives Management Act; and materials under special management as historical, cultural or research materials at research institutes and other facilities a Cabinet Order (政令) names.
行政機関の職員が職務上作成し、又は取得した文書、図画及び電磁的記録（電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によっては認識することができない方式で作られた記録をいう。以下同じ。）であって、当該行政機関の職員が組織的に用いるものとして、当該行政機関が保有しているもの
A decision by the head of an administrative organ (行政機関) under Article 9(1) to disclose all or part of a requested administrative document (行政文書).
A decision by the head of an administrative organ (行政機関) under Article 9 on a request for disclosure (開示請求): to disclose all or part of the requested administrative document (行政文書), or to disclose none of it, including where the request is refused under Article 8 or the organ does not hold the document.
Corporations and other organizations (法人その他の団体), other than the national government (国), incorporated administrative agencies, etc. (独立行政法人等), local governments (地方公共団体) and local incorporated administrative agencies (地方独立行政法人).
開示請求者
A person who has made a request for disclosure (開示請求) of an administrative document (行政文書) under this Act.
The bodies Article 2(1) of the Act on Access to Information Held by Incorporated Administrative Agencies defines by this name: the incorporated administrative agencies (独立行政法人) of Article 2(1) of the Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administrative Agencies, and the corporations listed in its own Appended Table 1 (別表第一).
独立行政法人等の保有する情報の公開に関する法律（平成十三年法律第百四十号。以下「独立行政法人等情報公開法」という。）第二条第一項に規定する独立行政法人等
A corporation that a local government (地方公共団体) sets up under the Local Independent Administrative Agency Act to carry out, efficiently and effectively, public work in its area that must be done reliably, that the local government need not do itself, and that it judges might not get done if left to the private sector, as Article 2(1) of that Act defines it.
地方独立行政法人法（平成十五年法律第百十八号）第二条第一項に規定する地方独立行政法人
第三者
In Article 13, Article 19(2) and Article 20(1), any person or body other than the national government (国), incorporated administrative agencies, etc. (独立行政法人等), local governments (地方公共団体), local incorporated administrative agencies (地方独立行政法人) and the disclosure requester (開示請求者).
The kinds of information listed in Article 5, items (i) to (vi), that the head of an administrative organ (行政機関) is not bound to disclose when a requested administrative document (行政文書) records them: in outline, information about individuals, anonymized personal information held by administrative organs and what was removed to make it, some information about corporations and businesses, and information whose release would risk harm to national security or foreign relations, public safety and order, frank deliberation within the public sector, or the proper conduct of public work.
A person, other than the one who filed a request for review (審査請求) of a decision on disclosure or non-disclosure (開示決定等) or of a failure to act on a request for disclosure (開示請求), who is found, in light of the laws the disposition (処分) rests on, to have an interest in it and who takes part in the review with the permission or at the request of the reviewing agency (審査庁), under Article 13 of the Administrative Complaint Review Act as Article 18(2) of this Act applies it.
行政不服審査法第十三条第四項に規定する参加人
A record made by an electronic, magnetic or any other method that cannot be perceived by the human senses.
電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によっては認識することができない方式で作られた記録
記述等
In Article 5, item (i) and Article 6(2), any matter written or recorded in a document, drawing or electronic or magnetic record (電磁的記録), or expressed by sound, movement or any other means, such as a person's name or date of birth.
文書、図画若しくは電磁的記録に記載され、若しくは記録され、又は音声、動作その他の方法を用いて表された一切の事項
Short name for the Act on Access to Information Held by Incorporated Administrative Agencies (Act No. 140 of 2001).
A written opinion (意見書) in which a third party (第三者), given the chance under Article 13(1) or (2) to comment on a request for disclosure (開示請求), states that it opposes disclosure of the administrative document (行政文書).
A lawsuit (訴訟) filed in a specified court with jurisdiction (特定管轄裁判所) under Article 12(4) of the Administrative Case Litigation Act, that is, the district court at the seat of the high court whose district covers the plaintiff's general forum (普通裁判籍), seeking revocation of a decision on disclosure or non-disclosure (開示決定等), or of a ruling (裁決) on a request for review (審査請求) of such a decision or of a failure to act on a request for disclosure (開示請求).
The document (書面) submitted to the head of an administrative organ (行政機関) to make a request for disclosure (開示請求), stating the requester's name and address or residence (and, for a corporation or other organization, its representative's name) and enough about the administrative document (行政文書) to identify it.
抗告訴訟
In Article 21, a lawsuit (訴訟) challenging an administrative agency's (行政庁) exercise of public power, as Article 3(1) of the Administrative Case Litigation Act defines it.
同法第三条第一項に規定する抗告訴訟
This Act as it stood before Article 8 of Act No. 61 of 2003 amended it.
In Article 5, item (i)-2, anonymized information (匿名加工情報) made by processing personal information held by administrative organs and other public bodies (保有個人情報) in a personal information file (個人情報ファイル) that meets the conditions of Article 60(3) of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information, counted here only where it forms part of a file organized so that it can be searched (行政機関等匿名加工情報ファイル, Article 60(4) of that Act).
The administrative authority (行政庁) with which a request for review (審査請求) of a decision on disclosure or non-disclosure (開示決定等), or of a failure to act on a request for disclosure (開示請求), has been filed under Article 4 of the Administrative Complaint Review Act or a Cabinet Order (政令) under Article 20(2) of this Act, including one that took the case over under Article 14 of that Act when the power to decide it passed to it through a change in the law.
Short name, in the supplementary provisions of Act No. 67 of 2014, for the 2014 Act amending the Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administrative Agencies (Act No. 66 of 2014), on whose effective date Act No. 67 of 2014 comes into effect.
In Article 28 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 67 of 2014, the Acts that Act No. 67 of 2014 amended, as amended by it, together with the orders made under them.