# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百七十八条 (Article 178) - 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: 第百七十八条 (Article 178) — address `art-178` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-178 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-178 - 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. --- ### 第百七十八条 art-178 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-178 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-178 **第一項** 第百四十八条第二項又は第三項の規定による命令に違反した場合には、当該違反行為をした者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は百万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-178/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-178/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-178/par-1 If an order under Article 148, paragraph (2) or paragraph (3) is violated, the person who has committed the violation is subject to imprisonment for not more than one year or to a fine of not more than 1,000,000 yen. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-178/par-1: 第百四十八条第二項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百四十八条第二項 (Article 148, paragraph (2)), art-148/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-148/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-148/par-2 - art-178/par-1: 第三項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百四十八条第三項 (Article 148, paragraph (3)), art-148/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-148/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-148/par-3 ## 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 第百八十四条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-184/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-184/par-1/item-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