# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百七十四条 (Article 174) - 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: 第百七十四条 (Article 174)（連絡及び協力） — address `art-174` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-174 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-174 - 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. --- ### 第百七十四条（連絡及び協力） — (Communication and Cooperation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-174 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-174 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-174 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣及びこの法律の施行に関係する行政機関の長（会計検査院長を除く。）は、相互に緊密に連絡し、及び協力しなければならない。 art-174/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-174/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-174/par-1 The Prime Minister and the head of an administrative organ related to the implementation of this Act (excluding the President of the Board of Audit) must closely communicate and cooperate with one another. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## 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 第六十三条第一項（不適正な利用の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-63/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