# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百七十七条 (Article 177) - 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: 第百七十七条 (Article 177) — address `art-177` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-177 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-177 - 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. --- ### 第百七十七条 art-177 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-177 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-177 **第一項** 第百四十三条の規定に違反して秘密を漏らし、又は盗用した者は、二年以下の拘禁刑又は百万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-177/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-177/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-177/par-1 A person who has divulged or misappropriated a secret in violation of the provisions of Article 143 is subject to imprisonment for not more than two years or to a fine of not more than 1,000,000 yen. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-177/par-1: 第百四十三条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百四十三条 (Article 143), art-143 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-143 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-143 ## 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 第百八十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-183/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-183/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch personal-information-protection-act-20261010T182616-001, 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