Japan is a signatory to all major World Intellectual Property Organization treaties; specifics are available at the WIPO website, linked below.
The World Trade Organization.
World Intellectual Property Organization was created on 1967-07-14.
The agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights is a World Trade Organization agreement from 1994 which required member states to better align their various IP laws. It significantly eased international trade in intellectual property and increased accessibility to patented drugs in developing nations, but perhaps its biggest impact was forcing countries to acknowledge that intellectual property rights hadtrade-related aspects to begin with.
The World Intellectual Property Organization (Who patent and trademark intellectual property) are based at: Suite 2525 2 United Nations Plaza New York N.Y.10017
The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty, and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights are the current international copyright conventions.
Like many agencies of the United Nations, the World Intellectual Property Organization is based in Geneva, Switzerland.
One might expect that staunchly socialist or communist countries would oppose intellectual property rights, because of the mistrust of private property. However, members of the World Trade Organization (more than 160 countries, including Cyprus, China, Cuba, and North Korea) have harmonized IP laws in order to ease international trade.
WIPO stands for WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION
As the world's economy becomes more knowledge-based than industrial, all countries have the opportunity to grow by promoting and licensing the intellectual property of their people. Musicians, for example, have for decades served as informal ambassadors to other countries.
In 1994, the WTO administered the agreeement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, known as TRIPS, during the Uruguay Round talks of GATT. TRIPS was the first international trade treaty acknowledging intellectual property at all. It required member countries to respect each others' copyrights using the previously existing model of the Berne Convention, and through the Doha Declaration works to make patented medicines more easily available in developing countries.
The World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) designated minimum protection requirements for various types of intellectual property, the majority of which are based on the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.The goal of TRIPS was to ease international trade as the economy became increasingly knowledge-based. As WTO states......as intellectual property became more important in trade, these differences [in protection and enforcement] became a source of tension in international economic relations. New internationally-agreed trade rules for intellectual property rights were seen as a way to introduce more order and predictability, and for disputes to be settled more systematically.