# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百七十一条 (Article 171)

- 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: 第百七十一条 (Article 171)（適用範囲） — address `art-171`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-171
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-171
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### 第百七十一条（適用範囲） — (Scope of Application)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-171 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-171 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-171</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、個人情報取扱事業者、仮名加工情報取扱事業者、匿名加工情報取扱事業者又は個人関連情報取扱事業者が、国内にある者に対する物品又は役務の提供に関連して、国内にある者を本人とする個人情報、当該個人情報として取得されることとなる個人関連情報又は当該個人情報を用いて作成された仮名加工情報若しくは匿名加工情報を、外国において取り扱う場合についても、適用する。
<sup>art-171/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-171/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-171/par-1</sup>
This Act also applies in those cases in which, in relation to supplying a good or service to a person in Japan, a business handling personal information, a business handling pseudonymized personal information, a business handling anonymized personal information, or a business handling information related to personal information handles the personal information by which that person in Japan is identifiable, information related to personal information that is to be acquired as that personal information, or pseudonymized personal information or anonymized personal information that has been prepared by using that personal information, in a foreign country.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## 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