Our government would raise a criminal penalty up to 30,000,000 yen if spam sender is against the ministerial order. It would be stated in the Act on Regulation of Transmission of Specified Electronic Mail, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported on 11th February 2008.
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The Act, which is going to submit our parliament in February 2008, also will prohibit spam in Opt-in basis. The bill also would ask a spam sender to write down his name, mailing address on his mail. The bill also demands to hold a record of receiver’s approval to the sender.
The bill will prohibit and penalize such practices whereas a spam which was sent from overseas is not regulated under the current act.
