exposed to unauthorized access with appropriate assistance, including advice, guidance and
supply of relevant data, so as to enable him/her to take any emergency necessary measures to
protect the specified computer concerned from further acts of unauthorized access according to
the modus operandi or cause of the act of unauthorized access concerned. This shall be on
condition that the access administrator concerned has requested assistance by submitting any
documents and other materials useful in ascertaining the operational and management status of
the specified computer concerned at the time of the act of unauthorized access concerned and
other circumstances to prevent the recurrence of similar acts, and that such a request is deemed
reasonable.
(2) A prefectural public safety commission may entrust the whole or a part of the work involved
in the implementation of the case analysis needed to provide the assistance prescribed in the
preceding paragraph (encompassing a technical investigation and analysis of the modus
operandi and cause of the act of unauthorized computer access for which the assistance
concerned has been sought and other matters, the same applying in the following paragraph) to a
person to be specified in the Rules of National Public Safety Commission.
(3) Any person who has engaged in the work involved in the implementation of the case analysis
entrusted by a prefectural public safety commission pursuant to the provision of the preceding
paragraph shall not divulge any secrets he/she has become privy to through this work.
(4) Any necessary matters in connection with the assistance prescribed in paragraph (1), in
addition to what is provided for in the preceding three paragraphs, shall be prescribed by the
Rules of Nationa1 Public Safety Commission.
(5) A prefectural public safety commission shall, in addition to what is provided for in paragraph
(1), endeavor to raise awareness and spread knowledge about the protection of specified
computers with an access control feature from acts of unauthorized computer access.
Article 10 The National Public Safety Commission, Minister for Internal Affairs and
Telecommunications, and Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry shall, to help protect
specified computers with an access control feature from acts of unauthorized computer access,
publicize the status of the occurrence of acts of unauthorized computer access and progress of
research and development on technology relating to access control features at least once a year.
(2) The National Public Safety Commission, Minister for Internal Affairs and
Telecommunications, and Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry must, to help protect
specified computers with an access control feature from acts of unauthorized computer access,
endeavor to assist any organizations formed by persons who engage in business activities geared
towards the enhancement of access control features for the purpose of assisting in measures
taken by access administrators who have added access control features to specified computers
pursuant to the provisions of Article 8 through the supply of the necessary information and so
on, provided that they are deemed to be capable of providing such assistance appropriately and
effectively.