Act on the Protection of Personal Information
個人情報の保護に関する法律
Every term this law . Its definitions bind only this law — each entry says where the definition applies and links to the sentence that settles it. 116 terms: 78 with the Ministry of Justice's English, 38 in our translation, marked as such.
The particular individual whom a given piece of personal information identifies.
個人情報によって識別される特定の個人
Information about a living individual that either can identify that particular person by a name, date of birth or other identifier or the equivalent (記述等) it contains — including information that can easily be matched with other information and so identify the person — or contains an individual identification code (個人識別符号).
生存する個人に関する情報であって、次の各号のいずれかに該当するもの
In Chapters V and VI, the head of an administrative organ (行政機関) — or, for an organ that a Cabinet Order (政令) names under Article 2, paragraph (8), item (iv) or (v), the person a Cabinet Order sets for it — an organ of a local government (地方公共団体の機関) other than its assembly, an incorporated administrative agency or other prescribed corporation (独立行政法人等) other than those listed in Appended Table 2 (別表第二), or a local incorporated administrative agency (地方独立行政法人) other than those that Article 2, paragraph (11), item (iv) leaves out.
In Chapters V and VIII, personal information that an employee of an administrative entity (行政機関等) — including, for an incorporated administrative agency or other prescribed corporation (独立行政法人等) or a local incorporated administrative agency (地方独立行政法人), an officer — has prepared or obtained in the course of their duties and that the entity holds for its employees' organizational use, limited to information recorded in administrative or similar documents (行政文書等).
行政機関等の職員（独立行政法人等及び地方独立行政法人にあっては、その役員を含む。以下この章及び第八章において同じ。）が職務上作成し、又は取得した個人情報であって、当該行政機関等の職員が組織的に利用するものとして、当該行政機関等が保有しているもの
利用目的
The purpose for which personal information is used, which Article 17, paragraph (1) requires a business handling personal information (個人情報取扱事業者) to specify as far as possible when it handles personal information.
委員会
The Personal Information Protection Commission (個人情報保護委員会), set up under Article 49, paragraph (3) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office.
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
Administrative organs (行政機関); organs of local governments (地方公共団体の機関), other than their assemblies; incorporated administrative agencies or other prescribed corporations (独立行政法人等), other than the corporations listed in Appended Table 2 (別表第二); and local incorporated administrative agencies (地方独立行政法人), other than those whose main purpose is research (試験研究) or whose purpose is running universities or colleges of technology or a hospital business (病院事業), as Article 21 of the Local Independent Administrative Agency Act describes that work.
次に掲げる機関
個人情報ファイル
In Chapters V and VIII, a collection of information containing personal information the administrative entity holds (保有個人情報), organized systematically, to achieve the purpose of a given task, so that particular such information can be searched for by computer, or otherwise organized so that it can easily be searched for by name, date of birth or other identifiers or the equivalent (記述等).
保有個人情報を含む情報の集合物であって、次に掲げるもの
個人データ
In Chapter IV, personal information that makes up a personal information database or the equivalent (個人情報データベース等).
個人情報データベース等を構成する個人情報
In Chapter V, anonymized personal information (匿名加工情報) made by processing all or part of the personal information the administrative entity holds (保有個人情報) that makes up a personal information file (個人情報ファイル) meeting the three conditions of Article 60, paragraph (3) — in outline, that the file is entered in the personal information file register (個人情報ファイル簿), that the documents recording it would on a request under the information disclosure laws or an information disclosure ordinance (情報公開条例) be disclosed at least in part or put to third parties for their opinion, and that it can be processed without hindering the entity's work — leaving out, in outline, any part that would be withheld as non-disclosure information (不開示情報).
次の各号のいずれにも該当する個人情報ファイルを構成する保有個人情報の全部又は一部（これらの一部に行政機関情報公開法第五条に規定する不開示情報（同条第一号に掲げる情報を除き、同条第二号ただし書に規定する情報を含む。以下この項において同じ。）、独立行政法人等情報公開法第五条に規定する不開示情報（同条第一号に掲げる情報を除き、同条第二号ただし書に規定する情報を含む。）又は地方公共団体の情報公開条例（地方公共団体の機関又は地方独立行政法人の保有する情報の公開を請求する住民等の権利について定める地方公共団体の条例をいう。以下この章において同じ。）に規定する不開示情報（行政機関情報公開法第五条に規定する不開示情報に相当するものをいう。）が含まれているときは、これらの不開示情報に該当する部分を除く。）を加工して得られる匿名加工情報
In Section 4 of Chapter V and Article 127, a request under Article 76, paragraph (1) to an administrative organ's head or administrative entity (行政機関の長等) to disclose personal information about oneself that its administrative entity holds (保有個人情報).
Information about an individual obtained by processing personal information so that it cannot identify a particular person unless matched with other information: by deleting some of the identifiers or the equivalent (記述等) it contains, or all of its individual identification codes (個人識別符号), or by replacing them in a way that leaves no pattern from which they could be restored.
次の各号に掲げる個人情報の区分に応じて当該各号に定める措置を講じて他の情報と照合しない限り特定の個人を識別することができないように個人情報を加工して得られる個人に関する情報
Information about an individual obtained by processing personal information so that no particular person can be identified from it and the personal information cannot be restored: by deleting some of the identifiers or the equivalent (記述等) it contains, or all of its individual identification codes (個人識別符号), or by replacing them in a way that leaves no pattern from which they could be restored.
次の各号に掲げる個人情報の区分に応じて当該各号に定める措置を講じて特定の個人を識別することができないように個人情報を加工して得られる個人に関する情報であって、当該個人情報を復元することができないようにしたもの
Incorporated administrative agencies (独立行政法人) as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administrative Agencies, and the corporations listed in Appended Table 1 (別表第一) of this Act.
独立行政法人通則法（平成十一年法律第百三号）第二条第一項に規定する独立行政法人及び別表第一に掲げる法人
In Chapter IV, personal data (個人データ) that a business handling personal information (個人情報取扱事業者) has the authority to disclose, correct, add to or delete, stop using, erase and stop providing to third parties, other than data that a Cabinet Order (政令) names as data whose existence or absence, if made known, would harm the public interest or other interests.
個人情報取扱事業者が、開示、内容の訂正、追加又は削除、利用の停止、消去及び第三者への提供の停止を行うことのできる権限を有する個人データであって、その存否が明らかになることにより公益その他の利益が害されるものとして政令で定めるもの以外のもの
In Section 4 of Chapter V and Article 127, a request under Article 90, paragraph (1) to an administrative organ's head or administrative entity (行政機関の長等) to correct (including adding to or deleting) personal information about oneself that has been disclosed to one, where one believes its content is untrue.
In Section 4 of Chapter V and Article 127, a request under Article 98, paragraph (1) to an administrative organ's head or administrative entity (行政機関の長等) to stop using, erase or stop providing personal information about oneself that has been disclosed to one, where it is held, handled, obtained, used or provided in breach of the provisions that paragraph lists.
Information about a living individual that is not personal information (個人情報), pseudonymized personal information (仮名加工情報) or anonymized personal information (匿名加工情報).
生存する個人に関する情報であって、個人情報、仮名加工情報及び匿名加工情報のいずれにも該当しないもの
Any matter, other than an individual identification code (個人識別符号), written or recorded in a document, drawing or electronic or magnetic record (電磁的記録), or expressed by sound, movement or other means, such as a name or date of birth.
文書、図画若しくは電磁的記録（電磁的方式（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をいう。次項第二号において同じ。）で作られる記録をいう。以下同じ。）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（個人識別符号を除く。）
The organs of the national government this Act covers: bodies placed in the Cabinet (内閣) under an Act (法律), other than the Cabinet Office (内閣府), and bodies placed under the Cabinet's jurisdiction; the Cabinet Office, the Imperial Household Agency (宮内庁) and the bodies provided for in Article 49, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office; the bodies provided for in Article 3, paragraph (2) of the National Government Organization Act; the bodies under Articles 39, 40, 55 and 56 of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office, Article 16, paragraph (2) of the Imperial Household Agency Act and Articles 8-2 and 8-3 of the National Government Organization Act that a Cabinet Order (政令) names, each counted as an organ of its own; and the Board of Audit (会計検査院).
次に掲げる機関
In Section 4 of Chapter V, the decision that an administrative organ's head or administrative entity (行政機関の長等) makes under Article 82 on a request for disclosure (開示請求): to disclose all or part of the requested personal information, or to disclose none of it, including where the request is refused under Article 81 or the information is not held.
In Section 5 of Chapter IV and in Chapter VI, a body certified by the Personal Information Protection Commission (個人情報保護委員会) under Article 47, paragraph (1), including a certification of a change in the scope of its work under Article 50, paragraph (1), to handle complaints about, and otherwise help ensure, the proper handling of personal or other related information (個人情報等) by the businesses its work covers.
This Act as amended by Article 51 of Act No. 37 of 2021.
第五十条施行日
In Article 7 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 37 of 2021, the date Article 50 of that Act, which amended this Act, comes into effect.
第五十一条施行日
In Article 8, paragraph (2) and Article 9 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 37 of 2021, the date Article 51 of that Act, which amended this Act, comes into effect.
Letters, numbers, symbols or other codes, as a Cabinet Order (政令) names them, that either convert a feature of part of a particular person's body for use by computer and can identify that person, or are assigned to an individual for using a service or buying goods, or written or electronically recorded on a card or other document issued to an individual, and differ for each user, buyer or holder so that they can identify that person.
次の各号のいずれかに該当する文字、番号、記号その他の符号のうち、政令で定めるもの
In Subsection 1 of Section 2 of Chapter VI, a business handling personal information (個人情報取扱事業者), a business handling pseudonymized personal information (仮名加工情報取扱事業者), a business handling anonymized personal information (匿名加工情報取扱事業者) or a business handling information related to personal information (個人関連情報取扱事業者).
In Section 4 of Chapter V, a person who has made a request for disclosure (開示請求).
In Section 4 of Chapter V, the decision that an administrative organ's head or administrative entity (行政機関の長等) makes under Article 93 on a request for correction (訂正請求): to correct the personal information, or not to.
In Subsections 1 and 3 of Section 2 of Chapter VI, personal information, pseudonymized personal information (仮名加工情報), anonymized personal information (匿名加工情報) or information related to personal information (個人関連情報).
In Chapter IV, a university or other body or organization whose purpose is academic research, or a person belonging to one.
大学その他の学術研究を目的とする機関若しくは団体又はそれらに属する者
対象事業者
In Section 5 of Chapter IV, a business handling personal or other related information (個人情報取扱事業者等) that the work of a body certified, or seeking certification, under Article 47, paragraph (1) covers.
In Section 3 of Chapter V, the personal information recorded in a personal information file (個人情報ファイル).
個人情報ファイル簿
In Chapter V, the register that an administrative organ's head or administrative entity (行政機関の長等) must prepare and publish of the personal information files (個人情報ファイル) its entity holds, stating for each the matters listed in Article 74, paragraph (1), items (i) to (vii), (ix) and (x), such as the file's name and purpose of use, and other matters a Cabinet Order (政令) sets.
In Section 4 of Chapter V, the decision that an administrative organ's head or administrative entity (行政機関の長等) makes under Article 101 on a request for ceasing to use personal information (利用停止請求): to stop using, erase or stop providing the information, or not to.
This Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 65 of 2015.
In Article 7 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 37 of 2021, the corporations listed in Appended Table 2 (別表第二) of this Act as amended by Article 50 of that Act; the Japan Organization of Occupational Health and Safety (独立行政法人労働者健康安全機構), where Article 58, paragraph (2) of that amended Act treats it as a business handling personal information, pseudonymized personal information or information related to personal information; and businesses handling personal information (個人情報取扱事業者) that are academic research institutions or the equivalent (学術研究機関等).
第五十条改正後個人情報保護法別表第二に掲げる法人、第五十条改正後個人情報保護法第五十八条第二項の規定により第五十条改正後個人情報保護法第十六条第二項に規定する個人情報取扱事業者、同条第五項に規定する仮名加工情報取扱事業者若しくは同条第七項に規定する個人関連情報取扱事業者とみなされる独立行政法人労働者健康安全機構又は同条第八項に規定する学術研究機関等である同条第二項に規定する個人情報取扱事業者
In Article 9 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 37 of 2021, the local incorporated administrative agencies (地方独立行政法人) listed in Article 58, paragraph (1), item (ii) of this Act as amended by Article 51 of that Act, and the organs of local governments (地方公共団体の機関) listed in paragraph (2), item (i) of that Article, which that paragraph treats as businesses handling personal information, pseudonymized personal information or information related to personal information.
第五十一条改正後個人情報保護法第五十八条第一項第二号に掲げる者又は同条第二項の規定により第五十一条改正後個人情報保護法第十六条第二項に規定する個人情報取扱事業者、同条第五項に規定する仮名加工情報取扱事業者若しくは同条第七項に規定する個人関連情報取扱事業者とみなされる第五十一条改正後個人情報保護法第五十八条第二項第一号に掲げる者
A record made in electronic, magnetic or any other form that people cannot perceive with their senses (電磁的方式).
電磁的方式（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をいう。次項第二号において同じ。）で作られる記録
Personal information that includes the identifiable person's race, creed, social status, medical history or criminal record, the fact that the person has been harmed by a crime, or other descriptions that a Cabinet Order (政令) names as needing special care in handling so that the person does not suffer unfair discrimination, prejudice or other disadvantage.
本人の人種、信条、社会的身分、病歴、犯罪の経歴、犯罪により害を被った事実その他本人に対する不当な差別、偏見その他の不利益が生じないようにその取扱いに特に配慮を要するものとして政令で定める記述等が含まれる個人情報
In Chapter IV, personal information, pseudonymized personal information (仮名加工情報) or anonymized personal information (匿名加工情報).
In Section 4 of Chapter V, a decision under Article 82, paragraph (1) to disclose all or part of the personal information the administrative entity holds (保有個人情報) that a request for disclosure (開示請求) asks for.
第三者
In Article 86, Article 105, paragraph (2), item (iii) and Article 107, paragraph (1), anyone other than the State, an incorporated administrative agency or other prescribed corporation (独立行政法人等), a local government (地方公共団体), a local incorporated administrative agency (地方独立行政法人) and the person requesting disclosure (開示請求者).
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 44 of 2020.
基本方針
The basic policy on the protection of personal information that the government must set under Article 7, paragraph (1) to promote measures for protecting personal information comprehensively and as a whole.
In Chapter IV, the purpose of using personal information for academic research.
代理人
In Section 4 of Chapter V, the legal representative (法定代理人) of a minor or of an adult ward (成年被後見人), or an agent appointed by the identifiable person (本人), acting for that person in a request for disclosure, correction or ceasing to use personal information.
In Section 4 of Chapter V, a person who has made a request for correction (訂正請求).
In Section 4 of Chapter V, stopping the use of, erasing, or stopping the provision of personal information the administrative entity holds (保有個人情報).
The date Act No. 44 of 2020, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
In Chapter IV, a business handling personal information (個人情報取扱事業者), a business handling pseudonymized personal information (仮名加工情報取扱事業者) or a business handling anonymized personal information (匿名加工情報取扱事業者).
In Section 5 of Chapter IV and in Chapter VI, guidelines in keeping with the aims of this Act that a certified personal information protection organization (認定個人情報保護団体) is to try to draw up, after hearing consumer representatives and other interested parties, on matters such as specifying the purpose of use of personal information, security measures and the procedures for requests for disclosure, or on how pseudonymized or anonymized personal information is made and kept secure, so that its covered businesses (対象事業者) handle personal information and the like properly.
Short name, in Chapter V, for the Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs (Act No. 42 of 1999).
In Article 78, paragraph (1), items (i) to (iii), Article 79, paragraph (2) and Article 86, paragraph (1), the person who made the request for disclosure (開示請求) or, where an agent (代理人) made it on the identifiable person's behalf under Article 76, paragraph (2), that identifiable person (本人).
第七十六条第二項の規定により代理人が本人に代わって開示請求をする場合にあっては、当該本人
In Section 4 of Chapter V, a person who has made a request for ceasing to use personal information (利用停止請求).
番号利用法
Short name for the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures (Act No. 27 of 2013).
The date Act No. 65 of 2015, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
In Chapter IV and Chapters VI to VIII, a person that uses a personal information database or the equivalent (個人情報データベース等) for its business; national government bodies (国の機関), local governments (地方公共団体), incorporated administrative agencies or other prescribed corporations (独立行政法人等) and local incorporated administrative agencies (地方独立行政法人) are not, except the corporations listed in Appended Table 2 (別表第二) and the local incorporated administrative agencies that Article 2, paragraph (11), item (iv) leaves out of administrative entities (行政機関等).
個人情報データベース等を事業の用に供している者
In Article 35, stopping the use of, or erasing, personal data the business holds (保有個人データ).
In Article 37 and Article 54, paragraph (1), a demand under Article 32, paragraph (2) to be told the purpose of use of personal data the business holds (保有個人データ), or a request under Article 33, paragraph (1) (also as paragraph (5) of that Article applies it to records of provision to a third party), Article 34, paragraph (1) or Article 35, paragraph (1), (3) or (5) for disclosure, for correction, or for ceasing to use, erasing or ceasing to provide that data to third parties.
In Section 5 of Chapter IV and in Chapter VI, the work for which a certified personal information protection organization (認定個人情報保護団体) is certified.
Short name for the Act on Access to Information Held by Incorporated Administrative Agencies (Act No. 140 of 2001).
In Chapter V, the documents in which personal information the administrative entity holds (保有個人情報) must be recorded: administrative documents (行政文書) as defined in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs, corporate documents (法人文書) as defined in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act on Access to Information Held by Incorporated Administrative Agencies, and documents, drawings and electronic or magnetic records that employees of a local government's organs or of a local incorporated administrative agency (地方独立行政法人) have prepared or obtained in their duties and that the organ or agency holds for its employees' organizational use, other than those a Cabinet Order (政令) names.
In Chapter V, a local government's ordinance (条例) that sets out the right of residents and others to request disclosure of information held by the local government's organs or by local incorporated administrative agencies (地方独立行政法人).
地方公共団体の機関又は地方独立行政法人の保有する情報の公開を請求する住民等の権利について定める地方公共団体の条例
In Section 3 of Chapter V, the items recorded in a personal information file (個人情報ファイル).
In Section 4 of Chapter V, the kinds of information listed in Article 78, paragraph (1), items (i) to (vii) that an administrative organ's head or administrative entity (行政機関の長等) need not disclose when a person asks for personal information held about them: in outline, information whose release would risk harm to the life, health, livelihood or property of the person requesting disclosure (開示請求者), information about other individuals, 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.
In Articles 146 to 152, the minister or commission responsible for a business's handling of personal information: for handling that concerns employment management, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働大臣) — or the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (国土交通大臣) for seafarers — together with the minister, National Public Safety Commission (国家公安委員会) or Japan Casino Regulatory Commission (カジノ管理委員会) that has jurisdiction over the business; for any other handling, that minister or commission alone.
次のとおり
In Article 28 and Article 31, paragraph (1), item (ii), a country or region outside Japan, other than those that an Order of the Personal Information Protection Commission (個人情報保護委員会規則) names as having a system for protecting personal information at a level equivalent to Japan's in protecting individuals' rights and interests.
本邦の域外にある国又は地域
参加人
An intervenor (参加人) as defined in Article 13, paragraph (4) of the Administrative Complaint Review Act: a person other than the person requesting review who has an interest in the decision under review in the light of the laws it rests on, and who takes part in the request for review (審査請求) with permission or on being asked to.
行政不服審査法第十三条第四項に規定する参加人
In Article 172, paragraphs (2) and (3), the investigation of a foreign criminal case, once the criminal facts under investigation have been identified, or a foreign criminal trial (審判).
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 49 of 2009, the laws that Act amended, as amended by it, together with the orders made under them.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 49 of 2009, the laws that Act amended, as they stood before it, together with the orders made under them.
This Act as it stood before Article 2 of Act No. 65 of 2015 amended it.
In Article 7 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 37 of 2021, the administrative entities (行政機関等) as defined in Article 2, paragraph (11) of this Act as amended by Article 50 of that Act, other than the Japan Organization of Occupational Health and Safety (独立行政法人労働者健康安全機構), which Article 58, paragraph (2) of that amended Act treats as a business handling personal information (個人情報取扱事業者).
In Chapters IV and VIII, a collection of information containing personal information, organized systematically so that particular personal information can be searched for by computer, or otherwise organized so that it can easily be searched for as a Cabinet Order (政令) sets out, other than collections that a Cabinet Order names as unlikely, given how they are used, to harm individuals' rights and interests.
個人情報を含む情報の集合物であって、次に掲げるもの（利用方法からみて個人の権利利益を害するおそれが少ないものとして政令で定めるものを除く。）
In Chapters IV, VI and VII, a person that uses a pseudonymized personal information database or the equivalent (仮名加工情報データベース等) for its business, other than the public bodies that Article 16, paragraph (2) leaves out.
仮名加工情報を含む情報の集合物であって、特定の仮名加工情報を電子計算機を用いて検索することができるように体系的に構成したものその他特定の仮名加工情報を容易に検索することができるように体系的に構成したものとして政令で定めるもの（第四十一条第一項において「仮名加工情報データベース等」という。）を事業の用に供している者
訂正等
In Article 34, the correction of, addition to or deletion of the content of personal data the business holds (保有個人データ).
In Chapter V and Article 176, a dispatched worker as defined in Article 2, item (ii) of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers: a worker employed by an employer (事業主) who is the subject of worker dispatch (労働者派遣).
労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の保護等に関する法律（昭和六十年法律第八十八号）第二条第二号に規定する派遣労働者
In Article 71, a country or region outside Japan, other than those that an Order of the Personal Information Protection Commission (個人情報保護委員会規則) names as having a system for protecting personal information at a level equivalent to Japan's in protecting individuals' rights and interests.
本邦の域外にある国又は地域
記録範囲
In Section 3 of Chapter V, the range of individuals recorded in a personal information file (個人情報ファイル) as identifiable persons who can be searched for without using another individual's name, date of birth or other identifiers or the equivalent (記述等).
In Article 78, paragraph (1), item (iii), a corporation or other organization (法人その他の団体) other than the State, an incorporated administrative agency or other prescribed corporation (独立行政法人等), a local government (地方公共団体) and a local incorporated administrative agency (地方独立行政法人).
A written opinion (意見書) in which a third party (第三者), given the chance under Article 86, paragraph (1) or (2) to comment before a decision on disclosure, states that it opposes disclosure of the information about it in the requested personal information.
The identifiers or the equivalent (記述等) and individual identification codes (個人識別符号) deleted from personal information the administrative entity holds (保有個人情報) when it was used to make anonymized personal information the administrative entity holds (行政機関等匿名加工情報).
行政機関等匿名加工情報の作成に用いた保有個人情報から削除した記述等及び個人識別符号
行政機関等匿名加工情報等
In Articles 121 and 122, anonymized personal information the administrative entity holds (行政機関等匿名加工情報), together with the deleted information (削除情報) of Article 109, paragraph (4) and information on how the personal information was processed under Article 116, paragraph (1).
A foreign authority that enforces foreign laws and regulations equivalent to this Act, to which the Personal Information Protection Commission (個人情報保護委員会) may give information it considers useful for that authority's duties equivalent to the Commission's own.
In Article 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 65 of 2015, the competent minister (主務大臣) as defined in Article 36 or Article 49 of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information as it stood before Article 2 of Act No. 65 of 2015 amended it, whose recommendations, orders and other acts are treated, from the day that Act came into effect, as acts of the Personal Information Protection Commission (個人情報保護委員会).
Electronic, magnetic or any other form that people cannot perceive directly with their 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
In Article 41, paragraph (1), a collection of information containing pseudonymized personal information (仮名加工情報), organized systematically so that particular such information can be searched for by computer, or otherwise organized so that it can easily be searched for, as a Cabinet Order (政令) sets out.
In Article 43, paragraph (1), a collection of information containing anonymized personal information (匿名加工情報), organized systematically so that particular such information can be searched for by computer, or otherwise organized so that it can easily be searched for, as a Cabinet Order (政令) sets out.
In Chapters IV, VI and VII, a person that uses an anonymized personal information database or the equivalent (匿名加工情報データベース等) for its business, other than the public bodies that Article 16, paragraph (2) leaves out.
匿名加工情報を含む情報の集合物であって、特定の匿名加工情報を電子計算機を用いて検索することができるように体系的に構成したものその他特定の匿名加工情報を容易に検索することができるように体系的に構成したものとして政令で定めるもの（第四十三条第一項において「匿名加工情報データベース等」という。）を事業の用に供している者
In Article 31, paragraph (1), a collection of information containing information related to personal information (個人関連情報), organized systematically so that particular such information can be searched for by computer, or otherwise organized so that it can easily be searched for, as a Cabinet Order (政令) sets out.
In Chapters IV, VI and VII, a person that uses a database or the equivalent of information related to personal information (個人関連情報データベース等) for its business, other than the public bodies that Article 16, paragraph (2) leaves out.
個人関連情報を含む情報の集合物であって、特定の個人関連情報を電子計算機を用いて検索することができるように体系的に構成したものその他特定の個人関連情報を容易に検索することができるように体系的に構成したものとして政令で定めるもの（第三十一条第一項において「個人関連情報データベース等」という。）を事業の用に供している者
Measures equivalent to those that Section 2 of Chapter IV requires a business handling personal information (個人情報取扱事業者) to take in handling personal data (個人データ), as Article 28, paragraph (3) and Article 71, paragraph (3) refer to them for a third party in a foreign country (外国).
In Article 33, paragraph (5) and Article 37, paragraph (2), the records that a business handling personal information (個人情報取扱事業者) must make under Article 29, paragraph (1) and Article 30, paragraph (3) when it provides personal data to a third party or receives it from one, as they relate to the personal data identifying a given person, other than records that a Cabinet Order (政令) names as records whose existence or absence, if made known, would harm the public interest or other interests.
In Article 41 (and in paragraph (7) of that Article as Article 42, paragraph (3) applies it), the identifiers or the equivalent (記述等) and individual identification codes (個人識別符号) deleted from personal information used to make pseudonymized personal information (仮名加工情報), together with information on how it was processed under Article 41, paragraph (1).
仮名加工情報の作成に用いられた個人情報から削除された記述等及び個人識別符号並びに前項の規定により行われた加工の方法に関する情報
For Article 57, paragraph (1), item (i), informing an unspecified large number of people of objective facts as facts, including stating opinions or views based on them.
不特定かつ多数の者に対して客観的事実を事実として知らせること（これに基づいて意見又は見解を述べることを含む。）
病院
In Article 58, paragraph (2), a hospital as defined in Article 1-5, paragraph (1) of the Medical Care Act: a place where a doctor or dentist practises medicine or dentistry for the public or for a particular group of many people and which has facilities for admitting 20 or more inpatients.
In Chapter V, a collection of information containing anonymized personal information the administrative entity holds (行政機関等匿名加工情報), organized systematically so that particular such information can be searched for by computer, or otherwise organized so that it can easily be searched for as a Cabinet Order (政令) sets out.
行政機関等匿名加工情報を含む情報の集合物であって、次に掲げるもの