BRUSSELS \u2013 Japan and the European Union agreed Tuesday to strengthen their cooperation over regulations regarding social media and other online platforms.<\/p>\n
Based on the agreement, reached at the fourth ministerial meeting of the Japan-EU Digital Partnership framework held in Brussels, regulatory authorities of the two sides will promote talks on taking measures against illegal content and ensuring transparency in implementation rules.<\/p>\n
From Japan, communications minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, digital transformation minister Hisashi Matsumoto and parliamentary vice industry minister Toshiyuki Ochi took part in the meeting.<\/p>\n
A joint statement adopted at the meeting called for Japan-EU cooperation in areas that are important in light of economic security, such as data flow and communications infrastructure, in addition to artificial intelligence, quantum computing and other advanced technologies.<\/p>\n
Henna Virkkunen, executive vice president of the European Commission, the executive organ of the EU, said at a news conference that cooperating with like-minded countries such as Japan is essential.<\/p>\n
Hayashi said that Japan and the EU share a need to protect minors on online platforms, adding that Japan plans to take appropriate measures while watching discussions in the EU.<\/p>\n
The Japan-EU Digital Partnership was launched at a meeting between Japanese and EU leaders in 2022.<\/p>\n
Under the framework, Japan and the EU are advancing cooperation in a wide range of areas such as AI, semiconductors and communications infrastructure. Progress is reviewed at an annual ministerial meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS \u2013 Japan and the European Union agreed Tuesday to strengthen their cooperation over regulations regarding social media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1958,1954,700,8,1240],"class_list":{"0":"post-17729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-eu-japan-relations","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-japan","12":"tag-social-media"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}