A registrar may request the head of a relevant local government or any other person to provide information pertaining to the owner, etc. (meaning natural persons or juridical persons (including unincorporated associations or foundations) to whom ownership is or was vested) of the subject real property to the extent necessary for making a registration on their own authority or preparing the maps referred to in Article 14, paragraph (1).

①A registrar must take the necessary and appropriate measures to prevent the leakage, loss or damage of the information for registration identification that they handle and ensure other security control of the information for registration identification.

②Registrars and other officials of the Ministry of Justice engaged in the affairs for real property registration who work at Legal Affairs Bureaus or District Legal Affairs Bureaus or branch bureaus thereof or branch offices of any of those bureaus or persons who have held the post must not divulge any secret concerning the preparation or management of information for registration identification that they have come to know in connection with the affairs.

The provisions of Chapter II and Chapter III of the Administrative Procedure Act (Act No. 88 of 1993) do not apply to a disposition made by a registrar.

The provisions of the Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs (Act No. 42 of 1999) do not apply to registers, etc. and written report of parcel boundary demarcation, etc.

The provisions of Chapter V, Section 4 of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (Act No. 57 of 2003) do not apply to the retained personal information (meaning retained personal information prescribed in Article 60, paragraph (1) of the same Act) which is recorded in registers, etc.

①A person who is dissatisfied with a disposition made by a registrar or who files an application for a disposition related to failure to act of a registrar may make a request for review to the Director of the Legal Affairs Bureau or District Legal Affairs Bureau who supervises the relevant registrar.

②A request for review must be made via the registrar.

①If a registrar finds a request for review with regard to a disposition to be well-grounded, or finds the necessity to make a disposition related to a failure to act subject to a request for review, the registrar must make a reasonable disposition.

②Except in the cases prescribed in the preceding paragraph, a registrar must attach their opinions to the case and refer it to the Director of the Legal Affairs Bureau or District Legal Affairs Bureau referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article within three days from the date of the request. In this situation, the Director of the Legal Affairs Bureau or District Legal Affairs Bureau is to convey the registrar's opinions to the review officer prescribed in Article 11, paragraph (2) of the Administrative Complaint Review Act (Act No. 68 of 2014).

③If the Director of the Legal Affairs Bureau or District Legal Affairs Bureau referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article finds a request for review with regard to a disposition to be well-grounded, or finds the necessity to make a disposition related to a failure to act subject to a request for review, the Director must order the registrar to make a reasonable disposition, and must give notice to the requester for the review and any other person who has an interest in the registration to that effect.

④Before ordering a disposition referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Director of the Legal Affairs Bureau or District Legal Affairs Bureau referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article may order the registrar to make a provisional registration.

⑤If the Director of the Legal Affairs Bureau or District Legal Affairs Bureau referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article finds the necessity to dismiss an application for a disposition related to a failure to act subject to a request for review, the Director must order the registrar to make a disposition to dismiss the application.

⑥With regard to the application of the provisions of the Administrative Complaint Review Act in relation to a request for review referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the phrase "administrative agency, etc. reaching the disposition" and the phrase "a written explanation has been submitted" in Article 29, paragraph (5) of the same Act is deemed to be replaced with "reviewing agency" and "opinions have been conveyed as prescribed in Article 157, paragraph (2) of the Real Property Registration Act (Act No. 123 of 2004)," respectively, and the term "written explanation" in Article 30, paragraph (1) of the Administrative Complaint Review Act is deemed to be replaced with "opinions referred to in Article 157, paragraph (2) of the Real Property Registration Act."

The provisions of Article 13, Article 15, paragraph (6), Article 18, Article 21, Article 25, paragraphs (2) through (7), Article 29, paragraphs (1) through (4), Article 31, Article 37, Article 45, paragraph (3), Article 46, Article 47, Article 49, paragraphs (3) (excluding the part related to a declaration to the effect that a failure to act subject to a request for review is illegal or unjust) through (5), and Article 52 of the Administrative Appeal Act do not apply to the request for review referred to in Article 156, paragraph (1).