Special thanks to two of our summer associates
Isaac Raskin Young and Charles A.Karwowski-Hoppel, who worked
dilgently on this alert.
The spam problem in Japan has evolved rapidly over the past
few years. As late as 2004, the vast majority of spam was
sent to mobile phones rather than PCs. This is no longer
true: Japan has been largely successful in its efforts to
reduce mobile spam; however, spam sent to PCs has exploded and
now constitutes the vast majority of spam in Japan. In
2006, close to 90% of spam in Japan was sent to PCs (it was
less than 30% in 2004).1 Of the spam sent to
PCs, more than 90% was advertisements for matchmaking (dating)
sites, 2% was for adult sites and the remaining messages were
for all other content.2
In response to the changing nature of spam in Japan,
regulations to combat it have accordingly evolved. A
large...
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