Article 1The set of data that Cabinet Order provides for which is referred to in Article 2, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") is any set of data to which a fixed set of rules is applied to arrange the personal information contained therein so that it is structurally organized to enable personal information to be easily retrieved from it, and which has a table of contents, an index, or anything else that aids in retrieval.

Article 2The business operator that Cabinet Order provides for which is referred to in Article 2, paragraph (3), item (v) of the Act is any business operator with a database, etc. of personal information for business use which is made up of personal information that could be used to identify no more than a total of five thousand certain individuals on any single day in the past six months (if all or part of that database, etc. of personal information was created by another business operator and the entity using it for business has not edited or reworked any of the data set forth in the following items, the certain individuals that can be identified using the personal information that makes up the whole or the relevant part of that database, etc. of personal information are excluded from being calculated as among the number of certain individuals that the personal information could be used to identify on any single day during the past six months):

Article 3The personal data that Cabinet Order provides for which is referred to in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Act is:

Article 4The period that Cabinet Order specifies which is referred to in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Act is six months.

Article 5The matters specified by Cabinet Order which is referred to in Article 24, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Act is:

Article 6The means that Cabinet Order provides for which is referred to in Article 25, paragraph (1) of the Act is any paper-based means of delivery (or a means agreed to by the person requesting disclosure, if any).

Article 7The matters that a Business Operators Handling Personal Information may establish, pursuant to the provisions of Article 29, paragraph (1) of the Act, as how that business operator will accept requests for disclosure and other handling are:

Article 8The following representatives may request disclosure or other handling pursuant to the provisions of Article 29, paragraph (3) of the Act:

Article 9(1)To apply for certification pursuant to the provisions of Article 37, paragraph (2) of the Act, a person must submit a written application to the competent minister, stating:

(2)The following documents must accompany the written application referred to in the preceding paragraph:

(3)If matters set forth in paragraph (1), item (i) or item (ii) or matters given in a document set forth in item (ii) through item (iv), item (vi), or item (viii) of the preceding paragraph change, the accredited personal information protection organization must submit written notice of this to the competent minister without delay (and must also give the reason for the change, if the matters given in the document set forth in item (iii) of that paragraph changes).

Article 10Before discontinuing accredited services, an accredited personal information protection organization must submit written notice to the competent minister three months prior to the date it plans to discontinue the services, giving the following information:

Article 11(1)If, pursuant to any other law or regulation, it has been decided that the head of a local government or other executive agencies (hereinafter referred to as the "Head, etc. of the Local Government or Chief Executive" in this Article) is to collect reports, conduct investigations, or issue recommendations in connection with business that Business Operators Handling Personal Information conduct which falls under the administrative jurisdiction of the competent minister, or that the Head, etc. of the Local Government or Chief Executive is to otherwise perform all or a part of the functions that are part of the supervisory authority of the competent minister, the Head of the Local Government or Chief Executive performs the affairs that Article 32 through Article 34 of the Act prescribe as being part of the authority of the competent minister. If, in such a case, there are multiple Heads, etc. of Local Government or Chief Executives that are to perform those affairs, nothing prevents each of those Heads, etc. of Local Government or Chief Executives from independently performing the affairs that Article 32 and Article 33 of the Act prescribe as being part of the authority of the competent minister.

(2)If, pursuant to any other law or regulation, it is decided that the Head, etc. of the Local Government or Chief Executive is to perform affairs connected with the permission or authorization for incorporation of an accredited personal information protection organization (or of a business operator seeking to be accredited as referred to in Article 37, paragraph (1) of the Act) which are part of the authority of the competent minister, the Head, etc. of the Local Government or Chief Executive performs affairs that Article 37, Article 40, and Article 46 through Article 48 of the Act prescribe as being part of the authority of the competent minister.

(3)The provisions of paragraph (1) do not prevent the competent minister from independently performing the affairs provided for in that paragraph.

(4)A Head, etc. of Local Government or Chief Executive performing, pursuant to paragraph (1), affairs that that paragraph prescribes to be part of the authority of the competent minister must promptly report the results of this affair to the competent minister.

(5)In cases as provided in paragraph (1) and paragraph (2), the provisions of the Act and of this Cabinet Order concerning the competent minister, as they relate to the functions provided for in paragraph (1) and paragraph (2), apply to the Head, etc. of the Local Government or Chief Executive as provisions of the Act and of this Order which concern the Head, etc. of the Local Government or Chief Executive.

Article 12(1)The competent minister, pursuant to the provisions of Article 52 of the Act, may delegate any authority or affairs that is within the minister's jurisdiction and is prescribed in Article 32 through Article 34, Article 37, Article 39, Article 40, or Article 46 through Article 48 of the Act to the head of an agency provided for in Article 49, paragraph (1) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office (Act No. 89 of 1999), to the head of an agency provided for in Article 3, paragraph (2) of the National Government Organization Act (Act No. 120 of 1948), or to the Commissioner General of the National Police Agency.

(2)The competent minister (or the head of the relevant agency, if the competent minister's authority or affairs are delegated to the head of an agency provided for in Article 49, paragraph (1) of Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office or to the head of an agency provided for in Article 3, paragraph (2) of the National Government Organization Act, pursuant to the preceding paragraph), pursuant to the provisions of Article 52 of the Act, may delegate any authority or affairs that is within the minister's jurisdiction and is prescribed in Article 32 through Article 34, Article 37, Article 39, Article 40, or Article 46 through Article 48 of the Act to the head of a secretariat, bureau, or department provided for in Article 17 or Article 53 of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office; to a person in a position provided for in Article 17, paragraph (1) or Article 62, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of that Act; to the head of a local branch office provided for in Article 43 or Article 57 of that Act; to the head of a secretariat, bureau, or department provided for in Article 7 of the National Government Organization Act; to the head of a local branch office provided for in Article 9 of that Act; or to a person in a position provided for in Article 20, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of that Act.

(3)The Commissioner General of the National Police Agency, pursuant to the provisions of Article 52 of the Act, may delegate any authority or affairs with which the commissioner has been delegated pursuant to paragraph (1) to the head of the Commissioner General's Secretariat; to the head of a bureau provided for in Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Police Act (Act No. 162 of 1954); to the head of a department provided for in paragraph (2) of that Article; or to the head of a regional institution provided for in Article 30, paragraph (1) of that Act.

(4)Before delegating authority or an affair pursuant to the provisions of one of the preceding three paragraphs, the competent minister, head of an agency provided for in Article 49, paragraph (1) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office, head of an agency provided for in Article 3, paragraph (2) of the National Government Organization Act, or Commissioner General of the National Police Agency must issue public notice of the official position of the member of personnel being delegated, the authority or affair being delegated, and the date the delegation comes into effect.

Article 13(1)If multiple competent ministers under Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act have jurisdiction over the handling of personal information that a Business Operator Handling Personal Information carries out, nothing prevents each competent minister from independently exercising the authority prescribed in Article 32 and Article 33 of the Act.

(2)A competent minister independently exercising authority pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must promptly report the results to the other competent ministers.