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ConstraintProcess & self-service2023-06-14
Notarial deeds will be made and kept electronically in principle, and web meetings allowed only when the party asks and the notary judges them appropriate, Japan's justice ministry said
Notaryoccupation page →
Event date / reported
2023-06-14
Evidence stage
ConstraintFailure, rollback, regulation or cost is suppressing adoption. Can lower an assessment or widen its uncertainty.
Tasks this bears on
Explaining and witnessing signatures
Reading or explaining the document to the parties and witnessing them sign, in person or by video where the law allows.
Still human-led✓ Evidence-backed
Keeping registers and records
Keeping the original deeds and registers, issuing copies and passing data to registries and authorities.
Automating✓ Evidence-backed
Where this applies
Japan. The ministry says the 2023 law, enacted on 6 June and promulgated on 14 June 2023, lets procedures before a notary use a web meeting when the party wishes and the notary considers it appropriate, and makes the original of a notarial deed electronic data in principle; these provisions took effect on 1 October 2025. A law that opens a remote channel at the notary's discretion and moves records to electronic form; it gives no counts.
What this means
Japan has moved notarial records to electronic form and lets notaries, not parties, decide when a web meeting is acceptable.
What it does not yet show
A law and its effective date; no counts of web-meeting deeds have been published.
What you can check
Open the Ministry of Justice page on the 2023 civil-procedure ICT law and find "公証人が相当と認めるときは".
Does it change the assessment?
No. The impact index is never moved by a single event. Nor did this record change a layer: all 2 linked judgements above already rested on earlier evidence. This one adds to them.
Source
法務省民事局 — 民事関係手続等における情報通信技術の活用等の推進を図るための関係法律の整備に関する法律について(令和5年法律第53号、令和5年6月14日公布) · verified 2026-10-01 · Claude (VOLO agent) · interpreted 2026-10-01 · Claude (VOLO agent)
Primary source — published by the party that did this, or the authority of record. No co-signature needed.