Compliance in Japanese Society In Japanese society, it has been long that every person and company is required to be compliant, not only politicians who are supposed to hold responsibility for their every remark and action, but also ordinary individuals who have the right to say anything freely as long as it doesn't hurt others. There have been a lot of cases that companies which get criticized as including racism or gender inequality messages on their advertisements, were obliged to remake them soon. Although we have become able to comment to other's behavior easily thanks to the development of IT technology as if doing so is the behavior of a good citizen, it is undoubtful that people have started criticizing and getting lambasted, though it is unnecessary, because of them. Thank you for reading this. I was planning to write about compliance issues while linking to Japanese news for the past few days, but I lost my way. I'm glad if you give me alternative phrases or vocabulary related to this topic. >_<