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Recent Trends in Renewable Energy in Japan: Hydrogen Energy

Jan 2024 | Newsletter, Newsletter-2024, Risk & Regulatory

Newsletter

In 2023, Japan made certain important amendment to its policy regarding hydrogen energy. This newsletter provides an overview of the amendment.

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Setting up Business in Japan

Jun 2023 | Corporate Law, Newsletter, Newsletter-2023

Newsletter

Japan continues to attract the interest of foreign investors. Japanese law provides for a broad variety of legal types of investment, the most prevalent whereof are described in this newsletter.
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Offshore Wind Power Generation in Japan; current development

Jun 2023 | Newsletter, Newsletter-2023, Risk & Regulatory

Newsletter

The recent major developments in offshore wind power generation in 2023, in particular the regulatory updates and the circumstances of new and potential projects are summarized in this newsletter.

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Expansion of the Scope of Business Categories subject to BOJ Prior Notification Filing

Jun 2023 | Corporate Law, Newsletter, Newsletter-2023, Transactions

Newsflash

From May 2023 onwards, the scope of foreign investors’ mandatory prior notification to the competent authorities has been further expanded by newly added core business sectors subject to the notification.

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Stricter policies, safer data – Amendments to Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information come into force

Apr 2022 | Data Law, Newsletter, Newsletter-2022

Newsletter

Amendments to Japan’s data protection rules significantly alter the landscape for companies that collect data from their customers, business partners, or anyone else they interact with.

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Data Protection: “We expect increased awareness”

Apr 2022 | Data Law, Newsletter-2022

Interview

Dr. Tobias Schiebe and Daniel Schwarz spoke to Asia Bridge, the largest German-language publication on Asian markets, about changes to the Japanese data protection laws.

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