# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第十一条 (Article 11)

- Law: 個人情報の保護に関する法律 (Act on the Protection of Personal Information), 平成十五年法律第五十七号
- English title "Act on the Protection of Personal Information": 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: 第十一条 (Article 11)（個人情報の適正な取扱いを確保するための措置） — address `art-11`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-11
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### 第十一条（個人情報の適正な取扱いを確保するための措置） — (Measures to Ensure the Proper Handling of Personal Information)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-11</sup>

  **第一項**  国は、地方公共団体との適切な役割分担を通じ、次章に規定する個人情報取扱事業者による個人情報の適正な取扱いを確保するために必要な措置を講ずるものとする。
  <sup>art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-11/par-1</sup>
  The national government is to take the necessary measures to ensure that businesses handling personal information as prescribed in the following Chapter properly do so, by effecting an appropriate division of roles between the national and local governments.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第二項**  国は、第五章に規定する地方公共団体及び地方独立行政法人による個人情報の適正な取扱いを確保するために必要な措置を講ずるものとする。
  <sup>art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-11/par-2</sup>
  The national government is to take the necessary measures to ensure the proper handling of personal information by local governments and local incorporated administrative agencies prescribed in Chapter V.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 個人情報の保護に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000057/20261001_507AC0000000070), retrieved 2026-10-10
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Protection of Personal Information — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4241/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10
- This site's parser, version 190 — 個人情報の保護に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10