Changes on (Act No. 62 of 2025)
The purpose of this Act is to protect whistleblowers and to ensure compliance with the provisions of laws and regulations relating to the protection of the lives, physical wellbeing, properties, and other interests of citizens by providing for the invalidity of dismissal of, and the prohibition, etc. of disadvantageous treatment of, whistleblowers on the grounds of whistleblowing and the measures, etc. to be taken by business operators and administrative bodies with regard to whistleblowing, thereby contributing to the stability of the lives of citizens and to the sound development of the society and economy.
whistleblowingmachine translation
「公益通報」
A report made, not for a wrongful purpose such as gaining an unfair benefit or harming others, by one of the persons the items of Article 2, paragraph (1) list (workers, dispatched workers (派遣労働者) and officers (役員) among them), that a reportable fact (通報対象事実) has occurred or is about to occur at the business operator (事業者) the item names for that person, the recipient of services (役務提供先), or among its officers, employees, agents or others, made to that business operator or a person it designated in advance, to an administrative body (行政機関) with authority to make a disposition (処分) or recommendation about the fact or a person that body designated in advance, or to another person to whom reporting it is considered necessary to prevent it or the spread of the harm it causes.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
whistleblower
「公益通報者」
A person who has made a whistleblowing report (公益通報), as Article 2, paragraph (1) defines it.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (2)· applies throughout the law
administrative body
「行政機関」
The following bodies: the Cabinet Office (内閣府), the Imperial Household Agency (宮内庁), the commissions and agencies placed within it under Article 49, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office, the Digital Agency (デジタル庁), the ministries, commissions and agencies provided for in Article 3, paragraph (2) of the National Government Organization Act, the bodies placed under the Cabinet's jurisdiction (内閣の所轄) by an Act (法律), the bodies placed within any of these, and officials of these bodies whom an Act allows to exercise authority independently; and the organs of local governments (地方公共団体) other than their assemblies (議会). Until the Reconstruction Agency (復興庁) is abolished, Article 3, paragraph (1) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Act that set up that Agency (Act No. 125 of 2011) reads the list with the Reconstruction Agency added after the Digital Agency.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (4)· applies throughout the law
void
無効
Having no legal effect from the start. A void act does not take effect even if the parties later confirm it; confirming it knowing it is void counts as making a new act (Civil Code, Article 119). An act against public order or good morals is void (Article 90). Some Acts that protect one side make void a term that takes that protection away: a term of a land lease that is worse for the tenant than the Act on Land and Building Leases' rules on how long the lease lasts and how it is renewed (Article 9), a clause of a consumer contract that frees a business from all liability for damage its failure to perform causes the consumer (Consumer Contract Act, Article 8, paragraph (1), item (i)), or the part of a labor contract that falls short of the Labor Standards Act's standards, which the Act's standard replaces (Labor Standards Act, Article 13).
Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 90, 119, Act on Land and Building Leases, Art. 9, Consumer Contract Act, Art. 8 and Labor Standards Act, Art. 13 as a reference.