# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第七十六条 (Article 76) - 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: 第七十六条 (Article 76)（開示請求権） — address `art-76` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-76 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-76 - 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. --- ### 第七十六条（開示請求権） — (Right to Request Disclosure) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-76 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-76 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-76 **第一項** 何人も、この法律の定めるところにより、行政機関の長等に対し、当該行政機関の長等の属する行政機関等の保有する自己を本人とする保有個人情報の開示を請求することができる。 art-76/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-76/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-76/par-1 Any person may request that an administrative organ's head or administrative entity disclose personal information by which that person is identifiable and that is held by the administrative entity to which the head or entity in question belongs, pursuant to the provisions of this Act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 未成年者若しくは成年被後見人の法定代理人又は本人の委任による代理人（以下この節において「代理人」と総称する。）は、本人に代わって前項の規定による開示の請求（以下この節及び第百二十七条において「開示請求」という。）をすることができる。 art-76/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-76/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-76/par-2 A legal representative of a minor or adult ward, or an agent privately appointed by the identifiable person (hereinafter collectively referred to as an "agent" in this Section) may make a request for disclosure (hereinafter referred to as a "request for disclosure" in this Section and Article 127) provided in the preceding paragraph on behalf of that person. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-76/par-2: 前項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第七十六条第一項 (Article 76, paragraph (1)), art-76/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-76/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-76/par-1 - art-76/par-2: 第百二十七条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百二十七条 (Article 127), art-127 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-127 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-127 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第七十四条第一項第九号（個人情報ファイルの保有等に関する事前通知） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-74/par-1/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-74/par-1/item-9 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第七十六条第二項（開示請求権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-76/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-76/par-2 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第七十七条第二項（開示請求の手続） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-77/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-77/par-2 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第七十八条第一項第一号（保有個人情報の開示義務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-78/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-78/par-1/item-1 - 行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律 第三十一条第三項（情報提供等の記録についての特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/my-number-act/art-31/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000027/art-31/par-3 --- ## 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