# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百七十三条 (Article 173)

- 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: 第百七十三条 (Article 173)（国際約束の誠実な履行等） — address `art-173`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-173
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-173
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### 第百七十三条（国際約束の誠実な履行等） — (Honest Implementation of International Agreements)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-173 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-173 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-173</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行に当たっては、我が国が締結した条約その他の国際約束の誠実な履行を妨げることがないよう留意するとともに、確立された国際法規を遵守しなければならない。
<sup>art-173/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-173/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-173/par-1</sup>
In the enforcement of this Act, care must be taken not to preclude the honest implementation of treaty and other international agreement which Japan has concluded, and established international law must be complied with.
<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