A data retaining circuit has been disclosed in which, even if a soft error occurs, it is corrected and a normal value can be maintained, the configuration is simple, and high-speed operations are enabled. In this circuit, when a soft error occurs in the data to be put out, it is corrected by a pull-up path or a pull-down path, and when a soft error occurs in the data in the pull-up path or the pull-down path, the error data in the pull-up path or the pull-down path is prevented from affecting each other, as well as turning off the correcting function to prevent the influence on the data to be put out.