Articles

Access to Information Act: Disclosure Requests and Review

Explains how Japan's information disclosure statute handles Administrative Documents, Disclosure Requests, decisions, fees, and review.

Accounting Act: National Revenue, Expenditure, and Contracts

Explains how the Accounting Act organizes national revenue, commitments of expenditure, payments, government contracts, and treasury handling.

Administrative Case Litigation Act: Action Types

Explains Administrative Case Litigation Act action types, revocation suits, stay of execution, mandamus, injunction, and filing instructions.

Administrative Complaint Review Act: Requests and Decisions

Explains how the Administrative Complaint Review Act handles review requests, review officers, proceedings, determinations, and re-review routes.

Administrative Procedure Act: Applications and Hearings

Explains how the Administrative Procedure Act structures applications, adverse dispositions, administrative guidance, notifications, and public comments.

Administrative Procedure Act: Public Comment Procedure

Explains the Administrative Procedure Act rules for draft Administrative Orders, comment periods, exceptions, and result publication.

Japan APPI: What Businesses Need to Know About Personal Data

An overview of Japan's Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI): who must comply, core obligations, individual rights, and the 2022 reform.

Digital Agency Establishment Act: Duties and Orders

Explains Digital Agency Establishment Act rules on duties, jurisdictional affairs, leadership posts, council structure, and Digital Agency Orders.

Digital Society Basic Act: Principles and Program

Explains how the Digital Society Basic Act defines digital society, basic principles, responsibilities, policy fields, and the priority policy program.

Incorporated Administrative Agencies: Objectives and Plans

Explains how the Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administrative Agencies defines agency types, objectives, plans, evaluations, and accounting.