The Situation: The amendment to the Payment Services Act ("PSA") of Japan took effect in May 2021, removing the current numerical transfer cap placed on fund transfer services by nonbank institutions.

Japan plans to amend its foreign investment screening law to give authorities the power to retrospectively order foreign ...

Insulting someone online could land an individual in Japan a one-year prison term under an amendment to the country’s penal code enacted on Thursday morning. Following the apparent suicide of Hana ...

The amended law comes into effect in April and covers new categories of personal information, including personal-related information and sensitive personal information. In June 2021, Japan enacted an ...

This file photo taken in October 2025 shows a bear on a riverbank in central Morioka, Iwate Prefecture. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's National Police Agency on Thursday amended rules to allow ...

Japan needs to adapt its laws to issue a central bank digital currency, according to a local financial official. Kozo Yamamoto, head of the Liberal Democratic Party’s council on financial affairs and ...