The 2020 amendment to the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (“APPI”) stipulates that the APPI must be reviewed every three years — the time for a review has arrived. In the past, since its enactment in 2003, major...more
On May 16, 2024, the Tokyo District Court (the “Court”) found that an artificial intelligence (“AI”) that autonomously generated an invention cannot be recognized as the inventor of that invention. The Court also expressed...more
Promulgated on May 25th, 2022, the amended Japanese Code of Civil Procedure has a significant update especially regarding digitalization of civil litigation procedures. Since the promulgation of the amendment to the Japanese...more
On June 17th, 2022, the amendment to the Japanese Telecommunications Business Act (TBA) was promulgated, particularly, relating to cookies and the expanded scope of telecommunications services regulated by the TBA. Although...more
On 3 August 2021, Japan's Personal Information Protection Commission (“PPC”) published its long-awaited Guidelines on amendments enacted in 2020 (the “2020 amendments”) to Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information...more
The Japanese government has released the effective dates of substantial amendments to the Japanese Act on the Protection of Personal Information (“APPI”). The revised Act will fully come into effect on 1 April 2022. ...more