# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第二十二条 (Article 22) - 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: 第二十二条 (Article 22)（データ内容の正確性の確保等） — address `art-22` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-22 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-22 - 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. --- ### 第二十二条（データ内容の正確性の確保等） — (Maintaining the Accuracy of Data) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-22 **第一項** 個人情報取扱事業者は、利用目的の達成に必要な範囲内において、個人データを正確かつ最新の内容に保つとともに、利用する必要がなくなったときは、当該個人データを遅滞なく消去するよう努めなければならない。 art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-22/par-1 Businesses handling personal information must endeavor to keep the content of personal data accurate and up to date, within the scope necessary for achieving the purpose of use, and delete the personal data without delay if they no longer require it. 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 第四十一条第五項（仮名加工情報の作成等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-41/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-41/par-5 --- ## 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