# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第九十三条 (Article 93) - 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: 第九十三条 (Article 93)（訂正請求に対する措置） — address `art-93` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-93 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-93 - 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. --- ### 第九十三条（訂正請求に対する措置） — (Measures Concerning a Request for Correction) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-93 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-93 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-93 **第一項** 行政機関の長等は、訂正請求に係る保有個人情報の訂正をするときは、その旨の決定をし、訂正請求者に対し、その旨を書面により通知しなければならない。 art-93/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-93/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-93/par-1 When correcting the personal information an administrative entity holds that is subject to a request for correction, the administrative organ's head or administrative entity must make a decision to that effect, and notify the person requesting correction of that decision in writing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 行政機関の長等は、訂正請求に係る保有個人情報の訂正をしないときは、その旨の決定をし、訂正請求者に対し、その旨を書面により通知しなければならない。 art-93/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-93/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-93/par-2 When not correcting the personal information an administrative entity holds that is subject to a request for correction, the administrative organ's head or administrative entity must make a decision to that effect, and notify the person requesting correction of that decision in writing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第九十四条第一項（訂正決定等の期限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-94/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-94/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第九十六条第三項（事案の移送） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-96/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-96/par-3 - 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