一information containing a name, date of birth, or other identifier or the equivalent (meaning all items (excluding individual identification codes) made by writing, recording, sound or motion, or other means, in a document, drawing, or electronic or magnetic record (this includes a record created in electronic or magnetic form (meaning electronic form, magnetic form, or any other form that cannot be perceived with the human senses; the same applies in item (ii) of the following paragraph); hereinafter the same); hereinafter the same) which can be used to identify a specific individual (this includes any information that can be easily collated with other information and thereby used to identify that specific individual);

二those containing an individual identification code.

一characters, letters, numbers, symbols or other codes converted in order to be provided for use by computers, used to identify a specific individual by a distinguishing physical feature of theirs;

二characters, letters, numbers, symbols or other codes used to identify a specific user, purchaser, or recipient, which are assigned differently for each of them regarding the use of services for an individual or the purchase of goods for an individual, or which are stated or recorded in an electronic or magnetic means differently for each of them in a card or other document issued to an individual.

一personal information falling under paragraph (1), item (i):deleting a part of the identifiers or their equivalent contained in the personal information (including replacing the part of the identifiers or their equivalent with other identifiers or their equivalent without following patterns that enable its restoration);

二personal information falling under paragraph (1), item (ii):deleting all individual identification codes contained in the personal information (including replacing the individual identification codes with other identifiers or their equivalent without following patterns that enable restoration of the individual identification codes).

一personal information falling under paragraph (1), item (i):deleting a part of the identifiers or their equivalent contained in the personal information (including replacing the part of the identifiers or their equivalent with other identifiers or their equivalent without following patterns that enable its restoration);

二personal information falling under paragraph (1), item (ii):deleting all individual identification codes contained in the personal information (including replacing the individual identification codes with other identifiers or their equivalent without following patterns that enable restoration of the individual identification codes).

一organs within the Cabinet (excluding the Cabinet Office) or under the jurisdiction of the Cabinet which are established pursuant to the provisions of laws;

二the Cabinet Office, the Imperial Household Agency, and organs prescribed in Article 49, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office (Act No. 89 of 1999) (if, under these organs, an organ designated by Cabinet Order as prescribed in item (iv) is established, that organ designated by Cabinet Order is excluded);

三organs prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (2) of the National Government Organization Act (Act No. 120 of 1948) (if, under these organs, an organ designated by Cabinet Order as prescribed in item (v) is established, that organ designated by Cabinet Order is excluded);

四organs referred to in Articles 39 and 55 of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office and in Article 16, paragraph (2) of the Imperial Household Agency Act (Act No. 70 of 1947), and extraordinary organs referred to in Articles 40 and 56 of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 18, paragraph (1) of the Imperial Household Agency Act), that are designated by Cabinet Order;

五facilities and other organs referred to in Article 8-2 of the National Government Organization Act, and extraordinary organs referred to in Article 8-3 of that Act, that are designated by Cabinet Order;

六the Board of Audit.

一administrative organs;

二local government organs (excluding assemblies; the same applies hereinafter except the following Chapter, Chapter III and Article 69, paragraph (2), item (iii));

三incorporated administrative agencies or other prescribed corporations (excluding corporations listed in the Appended Table 2; the same applies in Article 16, paragraph (2), item (iii), Article 63, Article 78, paragraph (1), item (vii), (a) and (b), Article 89, paragraphs (4) through (6), Article 119, paragraphs (5) through (7), and Article 125, paragraph (2));

四local incorporated administrative agencies (excluding those whose main purpose is providing the service listed in Article 21, item (i) of the Local Incorporated Administrative Agency Act, or those whose purpose is providing the service listed in item (ii) or (iii) of that Article (limited to the part relating to (h)); the same applies in Article 16, paragraph (2), item (iv), Article 63, Article 78, paragraph (1), item (vii), (a) and (b), Article 89, paragraphs (7) through (9), Article 119, paragraphs (8) through (10), and Article 125, paragraph (2)).