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🇯🇵 Japan · jurisdiction-aware

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.

Personal Information Protection Commission

APPI enforcement · cross-border transfer reviewofficial ↗

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

AI Governance Guidelines · Society 5.0official ↗

Financial Services Agency

Banking IT risk · operational resilienceofficial ↗

Frameworks anchored in Japan

Japan APPI

2003 (Act No. 57); amended 2020 (effective 2022) + 202117 clauses · 12 controls

Japan'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.