# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百二十条 (Article 120) - 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: 第百二十条 (Article 120)（行政機関等匿名加工情報の利用に関する契約の解除） — address `art-120` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-120 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-120 - 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. --- ### 第百二十条（行政機関等匿名加工情報の利用に関する契約の解除） — (Cancellation of a Contract for the Use of Anonymized Personal Information an Administrative Entity Holds) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-120 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-120 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-120 **第一項** 行政機関の長等は、第百十五条の規定により行政機関等匿名加工情報の利用に関する契約を締結した者が次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、当該契約を解除することができる。 art-120/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-120/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-120/par-1 If a person that has concluded a contract for the use of anonymized personal information an administrative entity holds, pursuant to the provisions of Article 115, falls under one of the following items, the administrative organ's head or administrative entity may cancel the contract: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 偽りその他不正の手段により当該契約を締結したとき。 art-120/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-120/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-120/par-1/item-1 the contract has been concluded by deception or other wrongful means; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第百十三条各号（第百十八条第二項において準用する場合を含む。）のいずれかに該当することとなったとき。 art-120/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-120/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-120/par-1/item-2 the person falls under one of the items of Article 113 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of Article 118, paragraph (2)); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 当該契約において定められた事項について重大な違反があったとき。 art-120/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-120/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-120/par-1/item-3 a serious breach of any provisions in the contract was committed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-120/par-1: 第百十五条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百十五条 (Article 115), art-115 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-115 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-115 - art-120/par-1/item-2: 第百十三条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百十三条 (Article 113), art-113 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-113 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-113 - art-120/par-1/item-2: 第百十八条第二項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百十八条第二項 (Article 118, paragraph (2)), art-118/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-118/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-118/par-2 ## 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 第百十三条第一項第五号（欠格事由） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-113/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-113/par-1/item-5 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百十九条第五項（手数料） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-119/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-119/par-5 --- ## 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