# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第五十七条 (Article 57) - 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: 第五十七条 (Article 57)（適用除外） — address `art-57` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-57 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-57 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十七条（適用除外） — (Exclusion from Application) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-57 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-57 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-57 **第一項** 個人情報取扱事業者等及び個人関連情報取扱事業者のうち次の各号に掲げる者については、その個人情報等及び個人関連情報を取り扱う目的の全部又は一部がそれぞれ当該各号に規定する目的であるときは、この章の規定は、適用しない。 art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-57/par-1 The provisions of this Chapter do not apply to a business handling personal or other related information or business handling information related to personal information as set forth in one of the following items if all or part of the purpose for which it handles the information in question is the purpose prescribed in that item: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The provisions of the preceding Chapter do not apply to a business handling personal or other related information or business handling information related to personal information as set forth in one of the following items if all or part of the purpose for which it handles the information in question is the purpose prescribed in that item:" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4241/tb **一** 放送機関、新聞社、通信社その他の報道機関（報道を業として行う個人を含む。）　報道の用に供する目的 art-57/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-57/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-57/par-1/item-1 broadcasting organizations, newspapers, news services, and other journalistic organizations (this includes individuals who work in news reporting):use in news reporting; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 著述を業として行う者　著述の用に供する目的 art-57/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-57/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-57/par-1/item-2 a person in the business of creating literary works:use in the creation of literary works; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 宗教団体　宗教活動（これに付随する活動を含む。）の用に供する目的 art-57/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-57/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-57/par-1/item-3 a religious organization:use in a religious activity (this includes activities incidental to it); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 政治団体　政治活動（これに付随する活動を含む。）の用に供する目的 art-57/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-57/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-57/par-1/item-4 a political organization:use in a political activity (this includes activities incidental to it). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項第一号に規定する「報道」とは、不特定かつ多数の者に対して客観的事実を事実として知らせること（これに基づいて意見又は見解を述べることを含む。）をいう。 art-57/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-57/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-57/par-2 The "news reporting" prescribed in item (i) of the preceding paragraph means informing the general public of objective facts by presenting them as the truth (this includes stating an opinion or position based on those facts). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項各号に掲げる個人情報取扱事業者等は、個人データ、仮名加工情報又は匿名加工情報の安全管理のために必要かつ適切な措置、個人情報等の取扱いに関する苦情の処理その他の個人情報等の適正な取扱いを確保するために必要な措置を自ら講じ、かつ、当該措置の内容を公表するよう努めなければならない。 art-57/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-57/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-57/par-3 A business handling personal or other related information as set forth in one of the items of paragraph (1) must, itself, endeavor to take the necessary and appropriate measures for managing the security of personal data, pseudonymized personal information or anonymized personal information, and the necessary measures for processing complaints about the handling of personal or other related information and for otherwise ensuring the proper handling of personal or other related information and must also endeavor to disclose the content of those measures. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-57/par-2: 前項第一号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十七条第一項第一号 (Article 57, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-57/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-57/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-57/par-1/item-1 - art-57/par-3: 第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十七条第一項 (Article 57, paragraph (1)), art-57/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-57/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第二十条第二項第七号（適正な取得） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-20/par-2/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-20/par-2/item-7 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十七条第二項（適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-57/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-57/par-2 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十七条第三項（適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-57/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-57/par-3 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百四十九条第二項（委員会の権限の行使の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-149/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-149/par-2 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百六十条第一項（委員会の権限の行使の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-160/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-160/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-11 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Protection of Personal Information (個人情報の保護に関する法律), Article 57, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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