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Japanese Information Disclosure Law

The Right of Access to Public Information: An International Comparative Legal Survey

449-483

Springer

2018-06

2020-08-05

Japan's Law concerning Disclosure of Information Held by Administrative Organs (the "Information Disclosure Law") came into effect in 2001, the product of grass-roots campaigns by transparency advocates and the efforts of reform-minded legislators during Japan's politically turbulent 1990s. Since 2001, the law has proved largely resistant to efforts to widen its application, with legislative priorities shifting if anything towards greater government secrecy.

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This is a preprint paper (as of Sep.2016). Please do not cite this. Published: Narufumi Kadomatsu/Joel Rheuben, Japanese Information Disclosure Law, H.J.Blanke, R. Perlingeiro (eds.), The Right of Access to Public Information, Springer (June 2018),pp.449-483 (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55554-5_12)