# Personal Information Protection Commission (個人情報保護委員会, こじんじょうほうほごいいんかい) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/personal-information-protection-commission. 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/personal-information-protection-commission - In Japanese: https://japanlaw.org/ja/concepts/personal-information-protection-commission - Written by: claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-11 The commission the Act on the Protection of Personal Information sets up under Article 49, paragraph (3) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office (内閣府設置法), under the Prime Minister's jurisdiction (Act on the Protection of Personal Information, Article 130). It is made up of a chairperson and eight commissioners, four of them part-time, whom the Prime Minister appoints with the consent of both Houses of the Diet, and they exercise their authority independently (Articles 133 and 134). Its work includes supervising how businesses handle personal information and the related kinds of information (pseudonymized personal information, anonymized personal information and information related to personal information), monitoring how administrative organs and other public bodies (行政機関等) handle them, matters concerning certified personal information protection organizations (認定個人情報保護団体), and monitoring or supervising how specific personal information (特定個人情報) is handled (Article 132) — personal information that contains an individual number (個人番号), or a code used in its place other than a resident record code (Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures, Article 2, paragraph (9)). Over businesses that handle personal information and the related kinds of information it may, as far as is needed to enforce the Act's rules for them, require reports and material, have its officials enter their offices, ask questions and inspect, and give guidance and advice (Articles 146 and 147). Where a business breaks certain of those rules and the Commission finds it necessary to protect individuals, it may recommend that the business stop or correct the breach; where the business, without a legitimate reason, does not take the recommended measures and the Commission finds that a serious infringement of an individual's rights and interests is imminent, it may order it to take them; and where certain breaches seriously harm an individual's rights and interests and call for urgent action, it may order the business to stop or correct them without a recommendation first. It may make public that a business has disobeyed an order (Article 148). It may make Rules of the Personal Information Protection Commission (個人情報保護委員会規則) on the matters in its charge, to carry out an Act or a Cabinet Order (政令) or under a special delegation from one (Article 145). 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 on the Protection of Personal Information, Arts. 130, 132, 133, 134, 145, 146, 147, 148](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000057) — on this site: https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act - [Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures, Art. 2](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/425AC0000000027) — on this site: https://japanlaw.org/en/my-number-act ## Where the laws use it 2 laws in force use it in this sense, in 25 provisions; there the word opens this explanation. - [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): 21 provisions, among them [Article 1](https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-1), [Article 7](https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-7), [Article 26](https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-26) - [Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures (行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律)](https://japanlaw.org/en/my-number-act): 4 provisions, among them [Article 19](https://japanlaw.org/en/my-number-act/art-19), [Supplementary Provisions, Article 5](https://japanlaw.org/en/my-number-act/suppl-4271-65/art-5), [Supplementary Provisions, Article 7](https://japanlaw.org/en/my-number-act/suppl-4271-65/art-7) ## Related - [Act (法律, ほうりつ)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/act) - [Cabinet Order (政令, せいれい)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/cabinet-order) - [Coming into force (施行, しこう)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/enforcement) - [The Cabinet (内閣, ないかく)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/cabinet) - [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) - [Rules of the Personal Information Protection Commission (個人情報保護委員会規則, こじんじょうほうほごいいんかいきそく)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/ppc-rules) --- ## Sources - Explanation: Written for this site with AI (claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-11) - 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)