22 September 2023
On March 28, 2023, the Cabinet Office promulgated a new regulation prohibiting businesses from representing their products and services in ways that make it difficult for consumers to recognize their sponsored nature.…
22 June 2017
On June 9, 2017, after passing the Upper House, the Vacation Rental Business Act was enacted. This puts an end to a longstanding question about whether a vacation rental business (called Minpaku in Japanese) is legal in…
6 March 2017
In November 2016, Japan’s Personal Information Protection Commission published guidelines on the implementation of the new amendment to the main body of Japan’s privacy law, the Act on the Protection of Personal…
20 February 2017
On January 31, 2017, Japan’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal to reverse the dismissal of the case filed by a man, once fined for child prostitution, who was seeking injunctive relief to delete search results referring…
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