# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百三十一条 (Article 131) - 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: 第百三十一条 (Article 131)（任務） — address `art-131` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-131 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-131 - 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. --- ### 第百三十一条（任務） — (Duties) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-131 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-131 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-131 **第一項** 委員会は、行政機関等の事務及び事業の適正かつ円滑な運営を図り、並びに個人情報の適正かつ効果的な活用が新たな産業の創出並びに活力ある経済社会及び豊かな国民生活の実現に資するものであることその他の個人情報の有用性に配慮しつつ、個人の権利利益を保護するため、個人情報の適正な取扱いの確保を図ること（個人番号利用事務等実施者（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（平成二十五年法律第二十七号。以下「番号利用法」という。）第十二条に規定する個人番号利用事務等実施者をいう。）に対する指導及び助言その他の措置を講ずることを含む。）を任務とする。 art-131/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-131/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-131/par-1 The Commission is to assume the duties of pursuing ensuring the proper handling of personal information (including taking measures such as giving guidance and advice to a person in charge of a process using an individual number, etc. (meaning a person in charge of a process using an individual number, etc. as prescribed in Article 12 of the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in the Administrative Procedure (Act No.27 of 2013; hereinafter referred to as the "Number Use Act"))) in order to protect individual rights and interests while ensuring smooth and proper management of the processes or services of administrative entities as well as ensuring due consideration of the value of personal information, and the fact that the proper and effective application of personal information contributes to the creation of new industries and the realization of a vibrant economic society and enriching quality of life for the Japanese public. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-131/par-1: 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（平成二十五年法律第二十七号。以下「番号利用法」という。）第十二条 → 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 第十二条 (Article 12), art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/en/my-number-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000027/art-12 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百三十二条第一項（所掌事務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-132/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-132/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