# 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 / Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life — 第二十八条 (Article 28) - Law: 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 (Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life), 平成二十七年法律第六十四号 - English title "Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life": 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: 第二十八条 (Article 28)（秘密保持義務） — address `art-28` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-28 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-28 - 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. --- ### 第二十八条（秘密保持義務） — (Obligation of Confidentiality) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-28 **第一項** 協議会の事務に従事する者又は協議会の事務に従事していた者は、正当な理由なく、協議会の事務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。 art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-28/par-1 Persons who engage in or have engaged in council administrative affairs must not divulge any secrets learned in the course of carrying out the administrative affairs of the council without legitimate grounds. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第二十九条第一項（協議会の定める事項） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-29/par-1 - 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第三十五条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-35/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-35/par-1/item-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/427AC0000000064/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4163/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 201 — 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19