6 November 2024
On November 1, 2024, new legislation protecting freelancers from exploitation, the Act on Ensuring Proper Transactions Involving Specified Entrusted Business Operators (Act No. 25 of 2023), was coming into force. The…
6 July 2020
On June 19, 2020, the Japanese government published a Q&A memorandum stating that placing a seal is not absolutely necessary to enter into a contract. This was made in response to the requests by Keidanren and other…
28 June 2019
While the amendment of the Civil Code will be effective on April 1, 2020, one of the major changes in the amendment is statutory warranties, often called latent or hidden defect protections. In particular, you may often…
3 August 2017
On May 29, 2017, the Diet passed a proposed bill to amend the Civil Code, which was promulgated on June 2, 2017. The new amendment will be effective within three years from the date of the promulgation. It has taken…
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