# 公益通報者保護法 / Whistleblower Protection Act — 第七条 (Article 7) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/whistleblower-protection-act/art-7. 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: 第七条 (Article 7)（損害賠償の制限） — address `art-7` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/whistleblower-protection-act/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（損害賠償の制限） — (Limitation of Claims for Damages) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/whistleblower-protection-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-7 **第一項** 第二条第一項各号に定める事業者は、第三条各号及び前条各号に定める公益通報によって損害を受けたことを理由として、当該公益通報をした公益通報者に対して、賠償を請求することができない。 art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/whistleblower-protection-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-7/par-1 The business operator provided for in each item of Article 2, paragraph (1) may not claim compensation from the whistleblower who has conducted whistleblowing on the grounds that the business operator has suffered damage due to the whistleblowing provided for in each item of Article 3 and each item of the preceding Article. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-7/par-1: 第二条第一項 → 公益通報者保護法 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/whistleblower-protection-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-2/par-1 - art-7/par-1: 第三条 → 公益通報者保護法 第三条 (Article 3), art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/whistleblower-protection-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-3 - art-7/par-1: 前条 → 公益通報者保護法 第六条 (Article 6), art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/whistleblower-protection-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-6 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 公益通報者保護法 第八条第一項（解釈規定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/whistleblower-protection-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-8/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 公益通報者保護法 — the text in force from 2026-07-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/416AC0000000122/20260717_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-20261026T133420-001, translated 2026-10-26 - 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