# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第七十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 73) - 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: 第七十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 73)（検討） — address `suppl-5031-37/art-73` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-73 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-73 - 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. --- ### 第七十三条（検討） — Review caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5031-37/art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-73 **第一項** 政府は、行政機関等に係る申請、届出、処分の通知その他の手続において、個人の氏名を平仮名又は片仮名で表記したものを利用して当該個人を識別できるようにするため、個人の氏名を平仮名又は片仮名で表記したものを戸籍の記載事項とすることを含め、この法律の公布後一年以内を目途としてその具体的な方策について検討を加え、その結果に基づいて必要な措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-5031-37/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-73/par-1 In order to make it possible to identify an individual by using the individual's name written in hiragana or katakana in applications, notifications, notices of dispositions, and other procedures relating to administrative entities, the Government is to consider specific measures for this, including making an individual's name written in hiragana or katakana a matter to be entered in the family register, aiming to do so within one year after the promulgation of this Act, and is to take necessary measures based on the results. machine translation, not official ## 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 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-1/par-1/item-1 --- ## 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 - claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch personal-information-protection-act-20261010T184447-004, translated 2026-10-11 - claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch personal-information-protection-act-20261010T191025-001, translated 2026-10-11 - 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