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Japanese government The Government of Japan is the central government of Japan. It consists of legislative, executive and judiciary branches and functions under the framework established by the Constitution of Japan. Japan is a unitary state, containing forty- ...

commission charged with the protection of personal information. It was established on January 1, 2016 to replaces the Specific Personal Information Protection Commission. The commission consisted of eight commissioners and a chairperson appointed by the

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. The number of commission members was increased from the initial four to eight in February 2016.Japan to add 40 officials for cybersecurity
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Japan Times ''The Japan Times'' is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper. It is published by , a subsidiary of News2u Holdings, Inc. It is headquartered in the in Kioicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo. History ''The Japan Times'' was launched by ...

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