(5) Information concerning deliberations, examinations, or consultations internal to or between
either organs of the State or local public entities that, if made public, would risk unjustly harming
the frank exchange of opinions or the neutrality of decision making, risk unjustly causing
confusion among the people, or risk unjustly bringing advantage or disadvantage to specific
individuals.
(6) Information that concerns the affairs or business conducted by an organ of the State or a local
public entity that, if made public, by the nature of said affairs or business, would risk, such as the
following mentioned risks, causing a hindrance to the proper performance of said affairs or
business.
(a) In relation to affairs concerned with audits, inspections, supervision, and testing, the risk of
making difficult the grasping of accurate facts, along with the risk of facilitating illegal or unfair
acts or making difficult the discovery of those acts.
(b) In relation to affairs concerned with contracts, negotiations, or administrative appeals and
litigation, the risk of unfairly harming the State's or a local public entity's property interests or
position as a party.
(c) In relation to affairs concerned with research studies, the risk that their impartial and efficient
execution will be unjustly obstructed.
(d) In relation to affairs concerned with personnel management, the risk that the impartial and
smooth maintenance of personnel matters will be hindered.
(e) In relation to the business of an enterprise managed by the State or a local public entity, the
risk that legitimate interests arising from the management of the enterprise will be harmed.
Article 6
Partial Disclosure
1.
In the case that non-disclosure information is recorded in a part of an administrative
document concerned with a disclosure request, when it is possible to easily divide and exclude
the portion in which the non-disclosure information is recorded, the head of the administrative
organ shall disclose to the requester the portion other than the excluded portion. However, this
shall not apply when it is deemed that meaningful information is not recorded in the portion
other than the excluded portion.
2.
In the case that the information of subparagraph (1) of the preceding Article (Limited to
that which makes possible the identification of a specific individual.) is recorded in an
administrative document concerned with a disclosure request, and if by excluding from said
information the portion of the description, etc., that makes possible the identification of a
specific individual, such as a name or birth date, there is considered to be no risk of harm to an
individual's rights and interests even though it is made public, then the portion other than the
excluded portion shall be regarded as not being included in the information of the said
subparagraph, and the preceding paragraph shall apply.
Article 7
Discretionary Disclosure for Public Interest Reasons
Even in the case that non-disclosure information is recorded in administrative documents
concerned with a disclosure request, when it is deemed that there is a particular public interest
necessity, the head of an administrative organ may disclose the administrative documents to the
requester.