# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第七十九条 (Article 79) - 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: 第七十九条 (Article 79)（部分開示） — address `art-79` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-79 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-79 - 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. --- ### 第七十九条（部分開示） — (Partial Disclosure) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-79 **第一項** 行政機関の長等は、開示請求に係る保有個人情報に不開示情報が含まれている場合において、不開示情報に該当する部分を容易に区分して除くことができるときは、開示請求者に対し、当該部分を除いた部分につき開示しなければならない。 art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-79/par-1 If non-disclosure information is included in personal information an administrative entity holds that is subject to a request for disclosure, and it is possible to easily separate and exclude the part that constitutes non-disclosure information from the personal information, the administrative organ's head or administrative entity must disclose the part from which the part that constitutes non-disclosure information has been excluded to the person requesting disclosure. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 開示請求に係る保有個人情報に前条第一項第二号の情報（開示請求者以外の特定の個人を識別することができるものに限る。）が含まれている場合において、当該情報のうち、氏名、生年月日その他の開示請求者以外の特定の個人を識別することができることとなる記述等及び個人識別符号の部分を除くことにより、開示しても、開示請求者以外の個人の権利利益が害されるおそれがないと認められるときは、当該部分を除いた部分は、同号の情報に含まれないものとみなして、前項の規定を適用する。 art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-79/par-2 If the information set forth in paragraph (1), item (ii) of the preceding Article (limited to information that can be used to identify a specific individual other than the person requesting disclosure) is included in personal information an administrative entity holds that is subject to a request for disclosure, and it is found that disclosure of the information would not be likely to cause damage to the rights and interests of a person other than the person requesting disclosure if the part in the information that constitutes a name, date of birth, or other identifiers or their equivalent that can be used to identify a specific individual other than the person requesting disclosure, or that constitutes an individual identification code were excluded from that information, the other part in the information from which the part mentioned above has been excluded is deemed not to be included in the information set forth in that item, and the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply to it. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-79/par-2: 前条第一項第二号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第七十八条第一項第二号 (Article 78, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-78/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-78/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-78/par-1/item-2 - art-79/par-2: 前項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第七十九条第一項 (Article 79, paragraph (1)), art-79/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-79/par-1 ## 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 第七十八条第一項第一号（保有個人情報の開示義務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-78/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-78/par-1/item-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第七十九条第二項（部分開示） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-79/par-2 - 行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律 第三十一条第三項（情報提供等の記録についての特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/my-number-act/art-31/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000027/art-31/par-3 --- ## 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