# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第七十七条 (Article 77) - 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: 第七十七条 (Article 77)（開示請求の手続） — address `art-77` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-77 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-77 - 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. --- ### 第七十七条（開示請求の手続） — (Procedures for Requests for Disclosure) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-77 **第一項** 開示請求は、次に掲げる事項を記載した書面（第三項において「開示請求書」という。）を行政機関の長等に提出してしなければならない。 art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-77/par-1 A request for disclosure must be made by submitting a document containing the matters listed in the following items (hereinafter referred to as a "written request for disclosure" in paragraph (3)) to the administrative organ's head or administrative entity: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 開示請求をする者の氏名及び住所又は居所 art-77/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-77/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-77/par-1/item-1 the name and address or residence of the person making the request for disclosure; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 開示請求に係る保有個人情報が記録されている行政文書等の名称その他の開示請求に係る保有個人情報を特定するに足りる事項 art-77/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-77/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-77/par-1/item-2 the name of the administrative or similar document containing the personal information the administrative entity holds which is subject to the request for disclosure, or other matters sufficient for identifying that information subject to the request. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合において、開示請求をする者は、政令で定めるところにより、開示請求に係る保有個人情報の本人であること（前条第二項の規定による開示請求にあっては、開示請求に係る保有個人情報の本人の代理人であること）を示す書類を提示し、又は提出しなければならない。 art-77/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-77/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-77/par-2 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, as prescribed by Cabinet Order, the person making the request for disclosure must present or submit a document to indicate that the person is the person identifiable by the personal information the administrative entity holds that is subject to the request for disclosure (or the agent of the person, in the case of a request for disclosure under paragraph (2) of the preceding Article). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 行政機関の長等は、開示請求書に形式上の不備があると認めるときは、開示請求をした者（以下この節において「開示請求者」という。）に対し、相当の期間を定めて、その補正を求めることができる。この場合において、行政機関の長等は、開示請求者に対し、補正の参考となる情報を提供するよう努めなければならない。 art-77/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-77/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-77/par-3 If an administrative organ's head or administrative entity finds a formal deficiency in a written request for disclosure, they may ask the person who made the request for disclosure (hereinafter referred to as a "person requesting disclosure" in this Section) to amend the request, by setting a reasonable period of time. In this case, the administrative organ's head or administrative entity must endeavor to provide the person requesting disclosure with information that is helpful in the amendment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-77/par-1: 第三項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第七十七条第三項 (Article 77, paragraph (3)), art-77/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-77/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-77/par-3 - art-77/par-2: 前項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第七十七条第一項 (Article 77, paragraph (1)), art-77/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-77/par-1 - art-77/par-2: 前条第二項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第七十六条第二項 (Article 76, paragraph (2)), 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 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第七十七条第一項（開示請求の手続） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-77/par-1 - 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 第八十三条第一項（開示決定等の期限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-83/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-83/par-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