This data category requires all national laws and statutes available to be available online, although it is not a requirement that information on legislative behaviour e.g. voting records is available. To satisfy this category, the following minimum criteria must be met:

• Content of the law / status
• If applicable, all relevant amendments to the law
• Date of last amendments
• Data should be updated at least on quarterly

Data Location

https://law.e-gov.go.jp/cgi-bin/idxsearch.cgi

Comments

Seems no restriction for its use but not clear, but unified big data seems not available (you have to download them one by one). English translation of those laws are also available (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/) but not always up-to-date.

Data Availability

• ? Openly licensed
• Y Is the data available for free
• ? Is the data machine readable
• ? Available in bulk
• N Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis
• Y Is data in digital form
• Y Publicly available
• Y Does the data exist
• Y Is the data available online

Details

Date the data became available	1/2/2013
Format of data	PDF
Reviewer	anonymous
Submitters	anonymous
Last modified	Mon Oct 21 2013 17:20:00 GMT+0000 (UTC)