# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百五十六条の二十の七 (Article 156-20-7) - Law: 金融商品取引法 (Financial Instruments and Exchange Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二十五号 - English title "Financial Instruments and Exchange Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第百五十六条の二十の七 (Article 156-20-7)（秘密保持義務） — address `art-156-20-7` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-20-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-7 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百五十六条の二十の七（秘密保持義務） — (Duty of Confidentiality) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-156-20-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-20-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-7 **第一項** 外国金融商品取引清算機関の役員（役員が法人であるときは、その職務を行うべき者）若しくは職員又はこれらの職にあつた者は、金融商品債務引受業に関して知り得た秘密を漏らし、又は盗用してはならない。 art-156-20-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-20-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-7/par-1 It is prohibited for the officer (or, if an officer is a corporation, the person that is to perform its duties) or employee of a foreign financial instruments clearing organization, or for a person that has held any of these positions, to divulge or misappropriate any secret learned in connection with financial instruments obligation assumption services. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 外国金融商品取引清算機関の役員（役員が法人であるときは、その職務を行うべき者）若しくは職員又はこれらの職にあつた者は、金融商品債務引受業の実施に関して知り得た情報を、金融商品債務引受業の用に供する目的以外に利用してはならない。 art-156-20-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-20-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-7/par-2 It is prohibited for the officer (or, if an officer is a corporation, the person that performs those duties) or employee of a foreign financial instruments clearing organization, or for a person that has held any of these positions, to utilize information learned in connection with the operation of financial instruments obligation assumption services, for a purpose other than the use in financial instruments obligation assumption services. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の二十二第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-22/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第二百四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-204/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-204/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 金融商品取引法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000025/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-10-22 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4633/tb), retrieved 2026-10-22 - This site's parser, version 212 — 金融商品取引法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-22