In Japan, the Children and Families Agency has established a working group to deliberate on the possibility of regulating social media services to ensure that children are not exposed to the problem through the internet.

The group will consider the measures with a view to revising the law to make internet use safe and secure among the youths who tend to access dangerous information when this law is not revised.

The group that is predicted to release an interim report in July will get the chance to share its views with the junior and senior students who are in high school.

The information that promotes juvenile crime or suicide and information that contains obscene material or inhumane content is considered the information that is harmful to juveniles under the law.

The legislation aims to protect underage individuals against such content primarily by using filtering technologies.