# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百八十一条 (Article 181) - 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: 第百八十一条 (Article 181) — address `art-181` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-181 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-181 - 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. --- ### 第百八十一条 art-181 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-181 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-181 **第一項** 行政機関等の職員がその職権を濫用して、専らその職務の用以外の用に供する目的で個人の秘密に属する事項が記録された文書、図画又は電磁的記録を収集したときは、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-181/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-181/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-181/par-1 An employee of an administrative entity who, by abusing that authority, acquires documents, drawings, or electronic or magnetic records containing confidential information on individuals for exclusive use for any purpose other than that employee's duties, is subject to imprisonment for not more than one year or to a fine of not more than 500,000 yen. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百二十五条第一項（適用の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-125/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-125/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百二十五条第二項（適用の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-125/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-125/par-2 - 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