Articles

FEFTA: Payments, Trade, and Inward Investment

Explains Japan's Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act rules on payments, capital transactions, inward direct investment, export controls, and reports.

Industrial Safety and Health Act: Workplace Duties

Explains Japan's Industrial Safety and Health Act rules on safety management, hazard prevention, worker education, medical exams, and inspections.

Insurance Business Act: Licenses and Solicitation

Explains Japan's Insurance Business Act rules on insurance licenses, insurance companies, mutual companies, solicitation, foreign insurers, and supervision.

Labor Standards Act: Hours, Wages, and Work Rules

Explains Japan's Labor Standards Act rules on workers, contracts, wages, working hours, paid leave, work rules, and labor inspection.

Labour Policy Act: Employment Stability and Harassment

Explains Japan's labour policy statute on employment information, foreign workers, treatment-work support, and harassment measures.

Patent Act: Inventions, Applications, and Rights

Explains Japan's Patent Act rules on inventions, patent applications, examination requests, publication, patent rights, licenses, remedies, and trials.

Specified Commercial Transactions Act: Sales Rules

Explains Japan's specified commercial transactions statute on visit sales, mail order sales, telemarketing, multilevel marketing, services, and supervision.

Trademark Act: Registration, Rights, and Renewal

Explains Japan's Trademark Act rules on marks, registration requirements, applications, examination, trademark rights, infringement remedies, and renewal.

Unfair Competition Prevention Act: Trade Secrets

Explains Japan's Unfair Competition Prevention Act rules on identifiers, product imitation, trade secrets, data, domains, and remedies.

Incorporated Agency Information Act: Requests and Review

Explains Corporate Document requests to Incorporated Administrative Agencies, disclosure limits, deadlines, fees, review, and information provision.