Abstract
This article puts questions of protection of personal information on special local public entities. In recent years, many special local public entities were founded as a way out of fiscal difficulties of local government in Japan. These special local public entities must not be excluded from the municipality proscribed in the law of protection of personal information. Some of special local public entities, however, have no authority to enact their ordinance of protection of personal information to protect personal information of their inhabitants, and they must be covered by the ordinance of ordinary local public entities.
