Sovereign AI ready for Japan.
ReguNav supports AI vendors operating under Japan's APPI 2022 amendments — PPC enforcement, cross-border transfer review (white-list / SCC), METI AI Governance Guidelines for AI Society 5.0, and FSA operational resilience for banking. Domestic data-residency election on Enterprise.
Japan regulator landscape
Every Japan control on the platform is anchored to a named regulator artefact. When the regulator updates their guidance, the framework registry takes the bump and every dependent control inherits it.
Frameworks anchored in Japan
Japan APPI
2003 (Act No. 57); amended 2020 (effective 2022) + 202117 clauses · 12 controlsJapan's general statute on the protection of personal information. Establishes the obligations of Personal-Information-Handling Business Operators (PIHBO / 個人情報取扱事業者), the special category of 'special-care-required personal information' (要配慮個人情報), the pseudonymously-processed (仮名加工情報) and anonymously-processed (匿名加工情報) regimes, the personal-related-information (個人関連情報) third-party-provision restriction, mandatory leakage reporting + individual notification, the rights of individuals (disclosure / correction / suspension of use / suspension of provision / disclosure-method choice), cross-border-transfer restrictions, and the PPC's enforcement powers. The 2022 amendments extended extraterritorial application and added administrative-fine exposure up to JPY 100 million for legal persons (Art. 179).
Japan SaaS, fintech, healthcare-AI, or essential-service?
We work with organisations supervised by every regulator listed above. The jurisdiction-aware engine routes incident reports, DSARs, and FRIA submissions to the correct authority + timeline automatically.
Talk to Japan team →Jurisdiction codes + regulator data are sourced from @regunav/jurisdictions (Apache-2.0, open-source). Adding a new market is a single registry entry — no copy-paste regulator content. See /uk for the bespoke deep-dive template.