# 公益通報者保護法 / Whistleblower Protection Act — 第十六条 (Article 16) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-16. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 公益通報者保護法 (Whistleblower Protection Act), 平成十六年法律第百二十二号 - English title "Whistleblower Protection Act": 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: 第十六条 (Article 16)（公表） — address `art-16` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-16 - 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. --- ### 第十六条（公表） — Public Announcements caption: machine translation, not official art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-16 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、第十一条第一項及び第二項の規定に違反している事業者に対し、前条の規定による勧告をした場合において、その勧告を受けた者がこれに従わなかったときは、その旨を公表することができる。 art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-16/par-1 If the Prime Minister has given a recommendation under the preceding Article to a business operator that is in violation of the provisions of Article 11, paragraphs (1) and (2), and the person who received the recommendation has not complied with it, the Prime Minister may make a public announcement to that effect. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-16/par-1: 第十一条第一項 → 公益通報者保護法 第十一条第一項 (Article 11, paragraph (1)), art-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-11/par-1 - art-16/par-1: 第二項 → 公益通報者保護法 第十一条第二項 (Article 11, paragraph (2)), art-11/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-11/par-2 - art-16/par-1: 前条 → 公益通報者保護法 第十五条 (Article 15), art-15 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-15 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 公益通報者保護法 第二十条第一項（適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-20/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 公益通報者保護法 — the text in force from 2026-07-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/416AC0000000122/20260717_508AC0000000062), retrieved 2026-10-26 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Whistleblower Protection Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5109/tb), retrieved 2026-10-26 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch whistleblower-protection-act-20261026T133420-002, translated 2026-10-27 - This site's parser, version 218 — 公益通報者保護法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-26