# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第四条 (Article 4)

- 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: 第四条 (Article 4)（国の責務） — address `art-4`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-4
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-4
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### 第四条（国の責務） — (Responsibilities of the National Government)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-4</sup>

**第一項**  国は、この法律の趣旨にのっとり、国の機関、地方公共団体の機関、独立行政法人等、地方独立行政法人及び事業者等による個人情報の適正な取扱いを確保するために必要な施策を総合的に策定し、及びこれを実施する責務を有する。
<sup>art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-4/par-1</sup>
The national government is responsible for comprehensively developing and implementing the necessary measures to ensure the proper handling of personal information by national government organs, local government organs, incorporated administrative agencies or other prescribed corporations, local incorporated administrative agencies, and businesses in conformity with the purport of this Act.
<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