# Information Disclosure and Personal Information Protection Review Board (情報公開・個人情報保護審査会, じょうほうこうかい・こじんじょうほうほごしんさかい) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/information-disclosure-review-board. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Group: Institutions, offices and documents - URL: https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/information-disclosure-review-board - In Japanese: https://japanlaw.org/ja/concepts/information-disclosure-review-board - Written by: claude-opus-5-5, 2026-09-29 A board set up in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (総務省) to examine a request for review (審査請求) when the body that must decide it consults the board under the Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs, the Act on Access to Information Held by Incorporated Administrative Agencies or the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (Act for Establishment of the Information Disclosure and Personal Information Protection Review Board, Article 2). Its fifteen members are appointed by the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣), with the consent of both Houses of the Diet (国会), from people of outstanding insight (Articles 3 and 4, paragraph (1)). When it considers it necessary, it can have the body consulting it show it the documents or the personal information themselves, which that body may not refuse, and no one may ask the board to disclose what it is shown (Article 9, paragraphs (1) and (2)). When it has answered a consultation, it sends a copy of its written report (答申書) to the person who requested the review and to anyone who has joined the review as a party (参加人, an intervenor), and makes the content of its report public (Article 16). The head of an administrative organ who must decide a request for review of a decision on disclosure, or of a failure to decide, must consult it first, unless the request is unlawful and is dismissed, or it is granted in full and all the documents are to be disclosed with no third party having submitted a written objection to their disclosure (反対意見書). When the head is the President of the Board of Audit (会計検査院), a board set up by a separate Act is consulted instead (Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs, Article 19, paragraph (1)). Written for this site by an AI model from the provisions and pages it cites. Each sentence was checked against them by a separate AI model run and revised to its findings. Not reviewed by a lawyer. ## Provisions and sources it draws on - [Act for Establishment of the Information Disclosure and Personal Information Protection Review Board, Arts. 2, 3, 4, 9, 16](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000060) - [Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs, Art. 19](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/411AC0000000042) — on this site: https://japanlaw.org/en/information-disclosure-act ## Where the laws use it 2 laws in force use it in this sense, in 5 provisions; there the word opens this explanation. - [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)](https://japanlaw.org/en/information-disclosure-act): 3 provisions, among them [Article 18](https://japanlaw.org/en/information-disclosure-act/art-18), [Article 19](https://japanlaw.org/en/information-disclosure-act/art-19), [Supplementary Provisions, Article 2](https://japanlaw.org/en/information-disclosure-act/suppl-4151-61/art-2) - [Act on the Protection of Personal Information (個人情報の保護に関する法律)](https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act): 2 provisions, among them [Article 104](https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-104), [Article 105](https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-105) ## Related - [Act (法律, ほうりつ)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/act) - [Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣, ないかくそうりだいじん)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/prime-minister) - [Request for review (審査請求, しんさせいきゅう)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/request-for-review) - [Administrative Complaint Review Board (行政不服審査会, ぎょうせいふふくしんさかい)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/administrative-complaint-review-board) --- ## Sources - Explanation: Written for this site with AI (claude-opus-5-5, 2026-09-29) - Where it is used, and how often: Worked out by this site from e-Gov's text - English names of the laws: Japanese Law Translation, Ministry of Justice (2 records)