# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百十七条 (Article 117) - 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: 第百十七条 (Article 117)（行政機関等匿名加工情報に関する事項の個人情報ファイル簿への記載） — address `art-117` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-117 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-117 - 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. --- ### 第百十七条（行政機関等匿名加工情報に関する事項の個人情報ファイル簿への記載） — (Registration of Matters Relating to Anonymized Personal Information an Administrative Entity Holds in the Personal Information File Register) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-117 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-117 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-117 **第一項** 行政機関の長等は、行政機関等匿名加工情報を作成したときは、当該行政機関等匿名加工情報の作成に用いた保有個人情報を含む個人情報ファイルについては、個人情報ファイル簿に次に掲げる事項を記載しなければならない。この場合における当該個人情報ファイルについての第百十条の規定により読み替えて適用する第七十五条第一項の規定の適用については、同項中「並びに第百十条各号」とあるのは、「、第百十条各号並びに第百十七条各号」とする。 art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-117/par-1 If an administrative organ's head or administrative entity prepares the anonymized personal information the administrative entity holds, the administrative organ's head or administrative entity must register the following matters in the personal information file register, for a personal information file that contains the personal information the administrative entity holds that has been used to prepare that anonymized personal information; in applying Article 75, paragraph (1) as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 110 following the deemed replacement of the terms to the personal information file in this case, the term "and each item in Article 110" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "each item in Article 110 and each item in Article 117.": Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 行政機関等匿名加工情報の概要として個人情報保護委員会規則で定める事項 art-117/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-117/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-117/par-1/item-1 matters to describe the outline of anonymized personal information the administrative entity holds, as specified by the Order of the Personal Information Protection Commission; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 次条第一項の提案を受ける組織の名称及び所在地 art-117/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-117/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-117/par-1/item-2 the name and address of the organization to which a proposal referred to in paragraph (1) of the following Article is given; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 次条第一項の提案をすることができる期間 art-117/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-117/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-117/par-1/item-3 the period during which a proposal referred to in paragraph (1) of the following Article may be submitted. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-117/par-1: 第百十条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百十条 (Article 110), art-110 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-110 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-110 - art-117/par-1: 第七十五条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第七十五条第一項 (Article 75, paragraph (1)), art-75/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-75/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-75/par-1 - art-117/par-1: 第百十七条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百十七条 (Article 117), art-117 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-117 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-117 - art-117/par-1/item-2: 次条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百十八条第一項 (Article 118, paragraph (1)), art-118/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-118/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-118/par-1 - art-117/par-1/item-3: 次条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百十八条第一項 (Article 118, paragraph (1)), art-118/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-118/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-118/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百十七条第一項（行政機関等匿名加工情報に関する事項の個人情報ファイル簿への記載） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-117/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百十八条第一項（作成された行政機関等匿名加工情報をその用に供して行う事業に関する提案等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-118/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-118/par-1 --- ## 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