List of Official SNS Accounts

January 24, 2014

1. Administration

(1) Social Network Service of the Prime Minister’s Office of Japan (“the SNS”) is managed by:
Cabinet Public Affairs Office, Cabinet Secretariat

(2) Content of posts
The SNS posts include the Prime Minister's thoughts, the policies the Cabinet is working on, daily activities at the Prime Minister's Office, and some photographs.

2. Management of comments

(1) Responding to comments
In principle, the Cabinet Public Affairs Office does not respond to comments or messages posted on the SNS.

(2) Deleting comments
We reserve the right to exercise our copyright over the SNS, and for that purpose to use SNS functions, to hide, in part or in full, delete, or decline comments which are deemed to fall under any of the following conditions without notifying the users.

Comments that violate a law, ordinance, or regulation;
Comments that violate public order and morals;
Comments that promote criminal acts;
Comments that slander or defame a particular individual, company, group, or other entity, or damage another entity’s reputation or trustworthiness;
Comments that breach privacy, including those disclosing or leaking personal information without the authorization of its owner;
Comments that breach third-party rights, including patents, design rights, copyrights, trademarks, and portrait rights;
Comments whose purpose is to generate profit;
Comments that include false information or significantly deviate from the truth;
Comments that violate SNS policy;
Comments intended to cause nuisance to the SNS administrator;
Comments that include abusive, obscene, indecent, offensive words, hate speech, or links to websites with such contents;
Comments intended to take viewers to other websites, without expressing any views or opinions;
Comments with the same or similar contents that are posted repeatedly by the same user.

(3) Banning users
We also reserve the right to ban users who post comments of the types listed above. Those users who violate the moderation policy may be banned permanently.

3. URL of the SNS

4. Modification of the Moderation Policy

We may at any time, without notice, revise these policies and other information contained on this page.

5. Intellectual property rights

The intellectual property rights over the photographs, illustrations, audio, video, text, etc. posted on the SNS belong to the Cabinet Public Affairs Office or those with valid rights.
People are free to use the “Like” and “Share” functions for posts on the SNS. Any information on the SNS may be reused with attribution. However, this does not apply to information marked “All Rights Reserved.”

6. Disclaimer

The Cabinet Public Affairs Office takes every possible precaution to ensure the accuracy of the information posted on the SNS. However, the Office cannot accept responsibility for any consequences whatsoever that may result from decisions or actions taken by users based on the information on the Page.
Please note that the Cabinet Public Affairs Office is not responsible for any inter-user trouble caused by the SNS or damages suffered as a result, or for any user-third party trouble caused by the SNS or damages suffered as a result.
The copyright and other rights of the posts, including comments, belong to the users who made the post. However, by posting content, it is deemed that the user licensed the right to utilize the content globally at no charge and on a non-exclusive basis to the Cabinet Public Affairs Office, and it is deemed that the user has consented to not exercising its copyright or other rights against the Cabinet Public Affairs Office.
The Cabinet Public Affairs Office bears no responsibility for any other damages caused by the SNS.