Japan / 2013 46% open

Japan is ranked #27 in the 2013 Index

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Rank	Dataset	Location (URL)	Format	Prev.	Score
8	Pollutant Emissions	http://www.nies.go.jp/igreen/i...	TXT	n/a	70%
8	Pollutant Emissions URL: http://www.nies.go.jp/igreen/index.html Format: TXT Re-distribution and modification are not allowed.
18	Government Budget	http://www.e-stat.go.jp/SG1/es...	n/a	n/a	70%
18	Government Budget URL: http://www.e-stat.go.jp/SG1/estat/GL08020101.do?_toGL08020101_&tstatCode=000001013484&requestSender=dsearch cannot see open licence on site
11	Postcodes / Zipcodes	http://www.post.japanpost.jp/z...	n/a	n/a	70%
11	Postcodes / Zipcodes URL: http://www.post.japanpost.jp/zipcode/download.html Personal use only - that is not open ("does not allow you to copy, modify, publish, transmit, distribute, transfer, lease, license, reproduction and re-use")
21	National Map	http://www.gsi.go.jp/kiban/ind...	XML or JPG	n/a	60%
21	National Map URL: http://www.gsi.go.jp/kiban/index.html?link_id=linkB01 Format: XML or JPG Data that can be downloaded is an XML document file or JPGIS2.x format, encoded in JPGIS2.x (GML) format
33	Election Results	http://www.soumu.go.jp/senkyo/...	PDF	n/a	45%
33	Election Results URL: http://www.soumu.go.jp/senkyo/senkyo_s/data/index.html Format: PDF PDF not machien readable
50	National Statistics	http://www.e-stat.go.jp/SG1/es...	n/a	n/a	40%
50	National Statistics URL: http://www.e-stat.go.jp/SG1/estat/eStatTopPortalE.do This so-called "e-stat" is the one-stop government stat data site of Japan. Most of data are available in Excel, some even CSV (unfortunately some are still PDF). You may use them basically free of charge, but the terms for commercial use is unclear.
47	Legislation	http://law.e-gov.go.jp/cgi-bin...	PDF	n/a	35%
47	Legislation URL: http://law.e-gov.go.jp/cgi-bin/idxsearch.cgi Format: PDF Seems no restriction for its use but not clear, but unified big data seems not available (you have to download them one by one). English translation of those laws are also available (http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/) but not always up-to-date.
34	Transport Timetables	http://english.jr-central.co.j...	PDF, HTML	n/a	35%
34	Transport Timetables URL: http://english.jr-central.co.jp/info/timetable/ Format: PDF, HTML Timetables are available at their webpage, but in most cases you should web-scrape them by yourself. JR-Central timetables are in PDF on http://english.jr-central.co.jp/info/timetable/ JR-West timetables are in PDF on http://www.westjr.co.jp/global/en/travel-information/timetable/ JR-East timetables are in multi-page plain HTML http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/timetables/index.html Therefore Japan Timetables should get a 'no' to machine readable (see notes above on HTML) JR-Central T&Cs (http://english.jr-central.co.jp/policy/index.html) reserves all rights. JR-West t&Cs (http://www.westjr.co.jp/global/en/terms-of-use/) only allow personal use. JR-East T&Cs (http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/termsofuse/index.html) reserves all rights. Therefore Japan Timetables should get a "no" for Open Licence
39	Company Register	http://www.touki.or.jp/	PDF	n/a	30%
39	Company Register URL: http://www.touki.or.jp/ Format: PDF PDF not machine readable. No bulk data, no open licence, charge to access data.
34	Government Spending	http://www.e-stat.go.jp/SG1/es...	n/a	n/a	5%
34	Government Spending URL: http://www.e-stat.go.jp/SG1/estat/GL08020101.do?_toGL08020101_&tstatCode=000001013484&requestSender=dsearch Cannot find transactional level spending although aggregate spend is available for bulk download

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