# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百八十四条 (Article 184) - 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: 第百八十四条 (Article 184) — address `art-184` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-184 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-184 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百八十四条 art-184 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-184 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-184 **第一項** 法人の代表者又は法人若しくは人の代理人、使用人その他の従業者が、その法人又は人の業務に関して、次の各号に掲げる違反行為をしたときは、行為者を罰するほか、その法人に対して当該各号に定める罰金刑を、その人に対して各本条の罰金刑を科する。 art-184/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-184/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-184/par-1 If a representative of a corporation, or an agent, employee or other worker of a corporation or person has committed a violation set forth in the following items in relation to the corporation or person's business, in addition to the offender being punished, the corporation is subject to a fine set forth in those items, and the person is subject to a fine set forth in the respective Articles. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第百七十八条及び第百七十九条　一億円以下の罰金刑 art-184/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-184/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-184/par-1/item-1 Articles 178 and 179:a fine of not more than 100 million yen; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第百八十二条　同条の罰金刑 art-184/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-184/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-184/par-1/item-2 Article 182:a fine set forth in that Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 法人でない団体について前項の規定の適用がある場合には、その代表者又は管理人が、その訴訟行為につき法人でない団体を代表するほか、法人を被告人又は被疑者とする場合の刑事訴訟に関する法律の規定を準用する。 art-184/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-184/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-184/par-2 If the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply to an organization without legal personality, its representative or administrator represents that organization regarding an act of litigation, and the provisions of laws on criminal proceedings in the cases in which a corporation is a defendant or suspect apply mutatis mutandis. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-184/par-1/item-1: 第百七十八条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百七十八条 (Article 178), art-178 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-178 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-178 - art-184/par-1/item-1: 第百七十九条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百七十九条 (Article 179), art-179 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-179 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-179 - art-184/par-1/item-2: 第百八十二条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百八十二条 (Article 182), art-182 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-182 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-182 - art-184/par-2: 前項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百八十四条第一項 (Article 184, paragraph (1)), art-184/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-184/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-184/par-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 第百七十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-179/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-179/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百八十四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-184/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-184/par-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