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.
Apply Mutatis Mutandis: Reading Junyo
Explains how 準用 works in Japanese statutes, including incorporated provisions, technical replacements, scope limits, and translation cautions.
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.
Promulgation and Enforcement: When Laws Take Effect
Explains how to read promulgation dates, enforcement dates, supplementary provisions, amendment laws, and current text when researching Japanese statutes.
What Is a Proviso? Reading Tadashigaki
Explains how provisos work in Japanese statutes, including main clauses, exceptions, conditions, item lists, and careful English translation.
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.