# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百五十二条 (Article 152) - 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: 第百五十二条 (Article 152)（事業所管大臣） — address `art-152` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-152 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-152 - 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. --- ### 第百五十二条（事業所管大臣） — (The Competent Minister for the Business) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-152 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-152 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-152 **第一項** この款の規定における事業所管大臣は、次のとおりとする。 art-152/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-152/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-152/par-1 The competent minister for the business in the provisions of this Subsection is as follows: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 個人情報取扱事業者等が行う個人情報等の取扱いのうち雇用管理に関するものについては、厚生労働大臣（船員の雇用管理に関するものについては、国土交通大臣）及び当該個人情報取扱事業者等が行う事業を所管する大臣、国家公安委員会又はカジノ管理委員会（次号において「大臣等」という。） art-152/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-152/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-152/par-1/item-1 the competent minister for the handling of personal or other related information by a business handling personal or other related information that is relating to employment management is: the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare (or as for those relating to a mariner's employment management, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism); and a minister having jurisdiction over the business conducted by the business handling personal or other related information, the National Public Safety Commission, or the Japan Casino Regulatory Commission (referred to collectively as the "minister or commission" in the following item); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 個人情報取扱事業者等が行う個人情報等の取扱いのうち前号に掲げるもの以外のものについては、当該個人情報取扱事業者等が行う事業を所管する大臣等 art-152/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-152/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-152/par-1/item-2 the competent minister for the handling of personal or other related information by a business handling personal or other related information other than the ones set forth in the preceding item is: the minister or commission having jurisdiction over the business conducted by the business handling personal or other related information. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-152/par-1/item-1: 次号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百五十二条第一項第二号 (Article 152, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-152/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-152/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-152/par-1/item-2 - art-152/par-1/item-2: 前号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百五十二条第一項第一号 (Article 152, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-152/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-152/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-152/par-1/item-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 第百五十二条第一項第一号（事業所管大臣） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-152/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-152/par-1/item-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百五十二条第一項第二号（事業所管大臣） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-152/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-152/par-1/item-2 --- ## 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