Japan — Information Distribution Platform Act (情プラ法)
Japan's amended Provider Liability Limitation Act — the Information Distribution Platform Act (情プラ法, in force April 2025) — requires MIC-designated large providers to publish content-moderation statistics (Art. 28). Three providers publish figures so far (TikTok and X still publish only qualitative criteria pages): LY Corporation, covering its five services — Yahoo! Chiebukuro, Yahoo! Finance boards, LINE OpenChat, LINE VOOM and Yahoo! News comments — from its FY2024 Media Transparency Report; Google (YouTube), from its 26 Jul 2025 – 31 Mar 2026 report; and Meta, reporting its designated services Facebook, Instagram and Threads separately for 30 Jul 2025 – 31 Mar 2026. A tidy-long dataset: each row is one measured value identified by service × period × section × category × metric. Metrics and sections aren't comparable — pin a section, category and metric before aggregating, never sum a rate, and don't add a section's Total to its own breakdown (for Meta the Total is a superset of the listed “most prevalent” categories, not their sum).
Trends
Interactive views of the reported figures. Each chart has a text alternative for screen readers.
Removal rate per quarter, by service
Share of posts removed (投稿削除割合) each FY2024 quarter, one line per service. A comparable rate across services of very different sizes.
Posts removed (FY2024), by service
Total posts removed (投稿削除件数) over FY2024, per service.
Posts removed per quarter — LINE OpenChat
OpenChat is by far the largest surface; its per-quarter removals shown on their own scale.
FY2024 summary, by service
Each service's annual totals: posts, posts removed, and the removal rate. Posts and removals are counts; the rate is a percentage — don't sum across them.
Posts removed by quarter
The per-quarter removal counts behind the annual totals, per service.
YouTube (Google)
Google's YouTube Information Platform Act report covers 26 Jul 2025 – 31 Mar 2026 — Japan-specific figures on a different schedule from LY Corp's FY2024 tables, so the two aren't comparable. YouTube reported … monthly active users in Japan. Each breakdown below excludes its own Total row.
Legal removals by reason
YouTube — videos removed for policy, by reason
Videos removed under YouTube's Community Guidelines in Japan, by policy reason. Most were first detected by automated systems (… of removals) rather than by users, organisations or government.
YouTube — user flags by reason
End-user flags submitted from Japan IP addresses, by the reason the flagger selected.
Meta — Facebook, Instagram & Threads
Meta's inaugural Information Distribution Platform Act report covers 30 Jul 2025 – 31 Mar 2026, reporting each designated service separately — so the figures aren't comparable with LY Corp's or YouTube's. Pick a service: . It reported … monthly active accounts in Japan. The violation categories below are the report's most prevalent examples — a subset, so they don't sum to the section total (excluded here).
Content enforcement actions by violation type
Meta — rights-report requests by reason
Requests received through Meta's dedicated Article 22 reporting channel for the selected service, by the rights-infringement reason the reporter selected.
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