Legal & Regulatory
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Must Tenants Leave Immediately After a Condominium Rebuilding Vote?
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Japan’s Employment for Skill Development: Who Is Told When Terms Change?
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What would the proposed tokuryu measures change?
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Japan’s Customer Harassment and Job-Seeker Sexual Harassment: Who Takes Reports?
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Must young people wait for a ballot before campaigning?
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Japan DBS needs more than a criminal-record check
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1,218 Retrial Applications Concluded in Five Years and 7 Orders to Reopen — 115 of the 121 Dismissed in 2023 Had No Examination of Facts at All
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Japan's Replacement for the Technical Intern System Starts in April 2027 — In 8 of 17 Sectors, Changing Employer by Choice Takes Two Years
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13.8% of People Entering Japanese Prisons Are 65 or Older — But per 100,000 Population the Over-70s Run at 4.7, a Quarter of the 20–64 Rate
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Japan's Scheme for Handing Inherited Land to the State Transferred 3,008 Plots in Three Years and Three Months — More Were Withdrawn (1,102) Than Refused (181)
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3,772 Medical Incidents Reported in Ten and a Half Years, About 356 a Year — the Design Estimate Was 1,300 to 2,000, and the Clause Requiring a Review Within Two Years Has Sat Expired for a Decade
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95.9% of Japanese Care Facilities Require a Signature Other Than the Resident's — What the Law Forbids Is Refusal on the Sole Ground of Absence, Not the Asking
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93.4% of Adult Guardianship Applications Cite Managing or Closing a Bank Account — The Entrance to a System for Supporting Decisions Sits at a Bank Counter
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Toward a Right Not to Have Your Voice Used — Japan's Copyright Act Protects the Performance, Not the Voice
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A Religious Corporation's Assets Come into View Only as It Nears Dissolution — 83.4 Billion Yen at Liquidation and the Three-Stage Design of Disclosure
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Japan's Bicycle Blue Ticket: One-Month Review of 2,147 Citations, 7 Zero Prefectures, and the Logic of a 'Visibility Device'
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The Day Digital Textbooks Became Official: Decoding Japan's 2026 Cabinet Decision
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Japan's Civil Court Digitalization, May 21, 2026 — mints Mandate and the Problem of the 7% Pro-Se Litigant
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A Civil-Law Approach to Unsolicited Sales Emails: Transferring Receiver Costs to Senders
News
Announcing the Sales Email Policy (effective 2026-06-01) — A Civil-Law Approach Reclaiming ~50 Hours/Year of Receiver Cost, Open Source
Practice Guides
Why the General Incorporated Association Suits Social Entrepreneurship — Criteria for Choosing a Legal Entity
Practice Guides
What Is a Non-Profit General Incorporated Association? — Differences from NPO Corporations and How to Choose
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The 'Invisible Walls' of Disability Pension — Structural Barriers from Application to Receipt
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A Country Where Politicians Win Without Elections — 26% Uncontested and 2,000+ Seat Shortfalls Question the Meaning of "Representation"
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Is Foreign Crime Really Rising in Japan? — The 1.36x Adjusted Rate and the Invisible Sanction System
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Business Manager Visa Capital Requirement Raised 6x to ¥30 Million — 96% of Current Holders Fall Short
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Five Structural Reasons Why "Freedom to Transfer" Won't Work Under Japan's New Training and Employment Program — Is It Just Relabeling the Technical Intern System?
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The Structural Problem of Japan's Bicycle Blue Ticket System — Can Penalty Enforcement Be Justified When Only 3.6% of Cycling Space Is Separated Bikeway?
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Why Japan's Labor Law Reform Was Shelved — 7 Key Issues in the First Major Overhaul in 40 Years
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Why Japan Cannot Advance the Right to Disconnect — Three Structural Barriers: Legislation, Culture, and Enforcement
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The Structural Contradiction of the 1-Meter Overtaking Rule — Can 'Safe Clearance' Be Achieved on Roads Only 3.5 Meters Wide?
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Who Decides 'Fitness'? — Japan's Security Clearance System and the Tension Between Economic Security and Civil Liberties
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From 'Sexy Tanaka-san' to 'Manga One' — The Structural Governance Failures Shogakukan Reveals About Japan's Publishing Industry
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Proving Innocence in a Country with a 99.9% Conviction Rate — A Structural Analysis of Japan's 'Hostage Justice'
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Dissolution Ordered, Yet Nothing Truly 'Dissolved' — The Structural Incompleteness of Japan's Unification Church Case
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Japan's Bicycle 'Blue Ticket' — The Contradiction of Enforcement Without Infrastructure
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Who Draws AI's 'Red Lines'? — Anthropic vs. Pentagon Lawsuit Questions Governance Vacuum
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14-Day Continuous Work Limit and Work Interval Regulations — A Turning Point in Work Practices as Labor Standards Law Reform Debate Unfolds
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