Japan Japan - Global Right to Information Rating

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RTI Rating Japan

Japan is at the 84º position of the Global Right to Information Rating

The transparency law of Japan has been in force since 1999 and with it has earned 76 points in the Global Right to Information Rating (RTI Rating). With that score Japan is now ranked 84 in the transparency ranking formed by 136 countries, meaning it is among those that must improve its laws in order to guarantee access to information.

This index ranks countries giving them a score of 0-150 depending on the strength of its legal framework which guarantees the right to information.

In the next table you can also see the scores obtained by Japan in each of the groups that make up the index. Access the list with the classification of all countries by clicking on RTI Rating and the economic information for Japan by clicking on Economy of Japan.


Japan - Global Right to Information Rating
DateRTI RakingYear RTI lawAccessScopeRequestingExceptionsAppealsSanctionsPromotionRTI Rating
202284º1,9993151522142576
202182º1,9993151522142576
202082º1,9993151522142576
201982º1,9993151522142576
201880º1,9993151522142576
201773º1,9993151522142576
201690º1,999314132190565
201483º1,999314132190565
201376º1,999314152190567
201273º1,999314152190567
201168º1,999314152190567
Japan - Global Right to Information Rating
Japan - Global Right to Information Rating
Reproduced with permission from the Global RTI Rating, a joint project of the Centre for Law and Democracy and Access Info Europe. The Global RTI Rating database is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0).