# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百一条 (Article 101) - 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: 第百一条 (Article 101)（利用停止請求に対する措置） — address `art-101` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-101 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-101 - 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. --- ### 第百一条（利用停止請求に対する措置） — (Measures on a Request for Ceasing to Use Personal Information) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-101 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-101 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-101 **第一項** 行政機関の長等は、利用停止請求に係る保有個人情報の利用停止をするときは、その旨の決定をし、利用停止請求者に対し、その旨を書面により通知しなければならない。 art-101/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-101/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-101/par-1 When ceasing to use personal information an administrative entity holds that is subject to a request for ceasing to use personal information, the administrative organ's head or administrative entity must make a decision to that effect, and notify the person making a request for the cessation to that effect in writing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 行政機関の長等は、利用停止請求に係る保有個人情報の利用停止をしないときは、その旨の決定をし、利用停止請求者に対し、その旨を書面により通知しなければならない。 art-101/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-101/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-101/par-2 When not ceasing to use personal information an administrative entity holds that is subject to a request for ceasing to use personal information, the administrative organ's head or administrative entity must make a decision to that effect, and notify the person making a request for the cessation to that effect in writing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## 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 第百二条第一項（利用停止決定等の期限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-102/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-102/par-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 - 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