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Japan

High demandAccess openCWC used here6 named duties1 live proceeding

Open access. Half of all global legal demands. 96% are crime ads — finance, drugs, prostitution — not a political ranking filter. Honor takedowns run on a separate 7-day private-party track.

Access

Available

Can ordinary users load X?

Removal requests

69,186

83.6% actioned · July–December 2024

Court & agency files

1 still live or unresolved

What is actually restricted

Named categories from X’s own country pages and statutory lists — not a live feed of every withheld post. Totals without a split are how most of the official report still reads.

Where Japan’s 69,186 legal demands actually go

Japan filed half of all legal removal demands X received worldwide in H2 2024. X itself itemized the pile as one grouped category — not as political speech.

Financial crime, narcotics, and prostitution

96%

X’s own grouping. Typical Japanese bases: 出資法 / 詐欺, 覚せい剤取締法 / 大麻取締法, 売春防止法

This is the volume story. Ads and solicitations for illegal finance, drugs, and paid sex — not a ranking filter of politicians.

Everything else X did not itemize

Honor (名誉毀損), privacy, copyright, and other local-law demands

X does not publish a further split. Japanese honor and privacy law is a real takedown path — it is not where the 69k came from.

X Transparency Center — removal requests

Private-party honor and rights track (情プラ法)

Separate from the government legal-demand pile. Since 1 April 2025 the Information Distribution Platform Act requires designated large platforms — X was designated 30 April 2025 — to take a rights-infringement deletion request, decide within 7 days, and publish an annual Article 28 report.

Live fight
Defamation / 名誉毀損
The live Japanese speech fight. A private party files; X must answer in 7 days. Not a government ranking list.
Privacy and portrait rights
Non-consensual intimate images
7-day decide-or-refuse clock
X published a Japanese report form and an Article 28 compliance zip for 2026. It does not publish the underlying URL list here.

X Japan IDPA Compliance Report · MIC designation list

What is still not listed

X published the 96 / 4 category split and an annual IDPA Article 28 zip. It does not publish the 57,867 actioned URLs.

Court and agency docket

Named proceedings that were public as of 15 August 2026 — cases in court, regulator files that can go to court, and statutes that would create new takedown powers. This is not a live court feed. Each card shows the last public date we have.

Full docket

Live or unresolved

Active orderAgency orderUpdated 2026 (Article 28 report)

MIC designation of X under the Information Distribution Platform Act

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (総務省)

MIC designated X a large specified telecommunications provider on 30 April 2025. X must run a Japanese rights-infringement window, decide deletion requests within 7 days, staff an infringement-investigation role, and publish an annual Article 28 compliance report. Failure to follow a ministerial correction order can carry a fine of up to ¥100 million. This is the private-party honor/privacy track — not the 69k government crime-ad demand pile.

At stake

A statutory 7-day clock on 名誉毀損 and privacy takedowns in Japan, with a public yearly report. Not a political ranking filter.

Opened 1 April 2025 (Act in force)Decided 30 April 2025 (X designated)

MIC designation list / X Japan IDPA Compliance Report

Missing a named file for Japan?

Allowed and not allowed

What public sources currently show — not a live feed of every withheld post. Individual jurisdiction withholdings still only appear as a notice when opened from that country.

Legal demandVerified source

Crime-ad legal demands — 96% of the pile

Japan filed 69,186 removal requests in H2 2024 — half of every legal demand X received worldwide. X says 96% referred to laws on financial crime, narcotics, and prostitution. Volume rose 27%; accounts specified rose 30%. Action rate: 83.64% (57,867).

Not allowed

Posts and accounts named in actioned Japanese legal demands — overwhelmingly ads and solicitations for illegal finance, drugs, and paid sex.

Still allowed

X is fully reachable. There is no Japan For You ranking filter in the public algorithm. Political speech is not what produced the 69k. The 16% of requests X refused stay up.

Basis: Japanese criminal process (出資法 / 詐欺, 覚せい剤取締法, 大麻取締法, 売春防止法) via legal demand, then Country Withheld Content

X Transparency Center — removal requests + H2 2024 table

Legal demandVerified source1 April 2025 (Act) · 30 April 2025 (X designated)

情プラ法 — 7-day honor and rights window

The Information Distribution Platform Act (旧プロバイダ責任制限法, in force 1 April 2025) is a different track from the 69k government demands. MIC designated X a large specified provider on 30 April 2025. Private parties can file a rights-infringement request; X must decide within 7 days and publish an annual Article 28 report.

Not allowed

Posts X accepts as rights-infringing after an IDPA filing — typically 名誉毀損, privacy / portrait rights, non-consensual intimate images.

Still allowed

A filing is not an automatic takedown. X can refuse. Refused posts stay up. This is not a government candidate list and not the source of the 69k crime-ad volume.

Basis: 情報流通プラットフォーム対処法 Arts. 5–6, 28

X Japan IDPA Compliance Report · MIC designation

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