Government of Japan Standard Terms of Use

The is a template terms of use agreement for the content of Japanese government ministry websites created in 2014. It allows the contents of ministry websites to be freely used, copied, publicly transmitted or otherwise modified, except when restricted by laws and ordinances. Version 1.0 of the terms of use agreement was created by the in 2014 to promote the reuse of government website content.
Version 2.0 of the agreement was created in December 2015 and went into use starting January of the following year. Version 2.0 and later versions are compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0).
Version.
Version 1.0.
When use content which the terms of use version 1.0 applied, the user must comply of the following terms:
Version 1.1.
This version was created to apply to content of Local government. In this version, the expression is changed to , but the terms of use have not been changed from version 1.0.
Version 2.0.
In this version, the terms in the terms of use that prohibited use in violation of laws and ordinances or the public order were deleted for compatibility with CC BY 4.0.
Evaluation.
The Open Knowledge Foundation Japan said about version 1.0 "Making content of ministry's website freely available is a big step, but there are concerns about the terms about the public order and international consistency". Kenji Hiramoto, an aide of the Government CIO is aware of this issue, but said "The important thing is to start effort for the government's open data", sought an understanding about it.