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Japan - Ministry
of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC)
In April 2002, the Japanese Government passed the “Law on Regulation of
Transmission of Specified Electronic Mail”. This law addresses “Specified
Electronic Mail,” which is defined as e-mail sent for advertisement purposes
of sender’s business to individual users. The law controls spam disseminated
by senders in Japan. In July 2002, Ministry
of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) designated an
entity “Japan
Data Communications Association” to conduct duties for the
appropriateness of sending specified e-mail messages. MIC set up a ‘Study
Group on a Framework to Handle Spam’ on October 7th, 2004, in order to
consider the anti-spam measures in various aspects. A final report is expected
to be compiled in July 2005. Furthermore, based on the discussion during the
study group and the interim report published in December 2004, the anti-spam law
was amended in May 2005. The new law includes the introduction of direct
penalties against malicious spammers. In February 2005 MIC and METI (Ministry of
Economy, Trade and Industry) launched ‘the Spam Blocking Support Project’.
This project aims to promote voluntary efforts by ISPs. Regime: Opt-out.
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