# 公益通報者保護法 / Whistleblower Protection Act — 第五章 (Chapter 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/whistleblower-protection-act/amendments/20261102_508AC0000000062/text/ch-5. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 公益通報者保護法 (Whistleblower Protection Act), 平成十六年法律第百二十二号 - English title "Whistleblower Protection Act": 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: 第五章 (Chapter 5) — address `ch-5` - Text: the text as amended with effect from 2026-11-02, standing until 2026-11-30 — NOT yet in force (revision 20261102_508AC0000000062) - URL (this text's page, at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/whistleblower-protection-act/amendments/20261102_508AC0000000062/text/ch-5 - The same address in the text in force (its wording there may differ): https://japanlaw.org/en/whistleblower-protection-act/ch-5 - Every provision below carries its address and its place on this text's page 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. The Ministry's English is given only where this text's Japanese is a wording the Ministry translated — the same as the text in force, or for a text not yet in force, a wording it translated ahead; every other paragraph's English is machine translation. --- ## 第五章　罰則 — Chapter V Penal Provisions heading: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ch-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/whistleblower-protection-act/amendments/20261102_508AC0000000062/text/ch-5 ### 第二十一条 art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/en/whistleblower-protection-act/amendments/20261102_508AC0000000062/text/ch-5#art-21 **第一項** 第十二条の規定に違反して同条に規定する事項を漏らした者は、三十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/whistleblower-protection-act/amendments/20261102_508AC0000000062/text/ch-5#art-21/par-1 Any person who has divulged any information provided for in Article 12 in violation of the Article is to be subject to a fine of not more than 300,000 yen. machine translation, not official ### 第二十二条 art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/en/whistleblower-protection-act/amendments/20261102_508AC0000000062/text/ch-5#art-22 **第一項** 第十五条の規定による報告をせず、又は虚偽の報告をした者は、二十万円以下の過料に処する。 art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/whistleblower-protection-act/amendments/20261102_508AC0000000062/text/ch-5#art-22/par-1 A person who has failed to make a report under Article 15 or has made a false report is punished by a civil fine of not more than 200,000 yen. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-21/par-1: 第十二条 → 公益通報者保護法 第十二条 (Article 12), art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/en/whistleblower-protection-act/amendments/20261102_508AC0000000062/text/ch-3#art-12 - art-22/par-1: 第十五条 → 公益通報者保護法 第十五条 (Article 15), art-15 — https://japanlaw.org/en/whistleblower-protection-act/amendments/20261102_508AC0000000062/text/ch-4#art-15 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 公益通報者保護法 — the text as 令和八年法律第六十二号 leaves it, from 2026-11-02 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/416AC0000000122/20261102_508AC0000000062), retrieved 2026-10-26 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Whistleblower Protection Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5109/tb), retrieved 2026-10-26 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch whistleblower-protection-act-20261026T133420-002, translated 2026-10-27 - This site's parser, version 218 — 公益通報者保護法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-26