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I can't find any English language news about it, but Yahoo Japan are going to withdraw a bunch of services from Europe in April including webmail and news. They're citing GDPR costs.

Edit: Apparently it's been picked up since last time I looked: https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/1/22911965/yahoo-japan-europ...

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What does Yahoo Japan have to do with Europe?

Not sure exactly what your question means but I'll attempt an answer: They currently offer services in the EEA and UK, such as webmail and news alerts (all in Japanese) and they will withdraw those services (presumably by geoblocking) in April.

Hopefully that will encourage Japanese expats living in the EEA and UK to push for equally good data protection laws back in Japan.

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