· February, 2009

Stories about Japan from February, 2009

Japan: Bloggers respond to new filtering measures

  5 February 2009

Over the past week, Japan's major mobile phone operators have commenced filtering web access on mobile phones contracted to minors (users under 18 years of age), following on legislation introduced in late 2007 and on developments over the last year toward the regulation of “harmful” content. On January 30th, NTT...

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