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In Japan, the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI) is the primary law that regulates data protection issues. In this article, we will cover a few significant recent amendments to the APPI, including one currently under consideration, while also touching on the new guidelines issued by the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) last year, which highlight an intersection of the APPI and Japanese competition law, as well as the increasing significance of personal data in M&A transactions. 2015 amendments to the APPI The APPI was enacted in 2003 and went through its first major amendment in 2015 (the 2015 amendment)...

The sudden onset of the Covid-19 emergency has caused significant disruption across swathes of the Japanese economy and raised novel and urgent questions for employers as they seek to handle the challenges they face, whilst balancing the protection of their business and their obligations to their workers. This memorandum briefly addresses a number of key employment law issues and questions.[1] COVID-19 State of Emergency On 7th April 2020 the Japanese government declared a state of emergency[2] covering the greater Tokyo and Osaka areas, and a number of other urban areas, and which was extended nationwide on 16th April...

Award-winning Japanese law firm Atsumi & Sakai is pleased to announce the establishment of an office in New York (Formal name: Atsumi & Sakai New York LLP), which will enable the firm to provide more convenient legal services in North and South America. The New York office will be led by Bonnie L. Dixon, a veteran partner of the firm and the first non-Japanese lawyer to be a partner of a Japanese law firm in the post-war era. As the only Japanese law firm with offices in London and New York, an affiliated office in Frankfurt and an affiliated law firm in Vietnam, we cover all time zones and provide legal services literally 24 hours a day...

Asian Legal Business Japan Law Awards 2019 Atsumi & Sakai is pleased announce its receipt of the following awards at the recent Asian Legal Business Japan Law Awards 2019: • Hiroo Atsumi: Managing Partner of the Year • Atsumi & Sakai: Overseas Practice Law Firm of the Year