# 公益通報者保護法 / Whistleblower Protection Act — 第二十一条 (Article 21)

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- 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: 第二十一条 (Article 21) — address `art-21`
- Text in force since: 2026-07-17
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-21
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-21
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### 第二十一条
<sup>art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-21</sup>

**第一項**  第十二条の規定に違反して同条に規定する事項を漏らした者は、三十万円以下の罰金に処する。
<sup>art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-21/par-1</sup>
Any person who has divulged any information provided for in Article 12 in violation of the Article is to be subject to a fine of not more than 300,000 yen.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-21/par-1: 第十二条 → 公益通報者保護法 第十二条 (Article 12), art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-12

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## 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