APRC SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY

January 9, 2025

The Asia and Pacific Research Center (hereinafter, "APRC") of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (hereinafter, "JST") agrees to the following SNS guidelines and publishes information on the following official social media accounts. The operation of our social media shall be in accordance with the APRC's site policy.

  1. X

    Name: SciencePortalAsiaPacific

    https://x.com/SPAPJST

    Name: Science Japan

    https://x.com/ScienceJapanJST

  2. Facebook

    Name: Science Japan

    https://www.facebook.com/ScienceJapanJST

  3. LinkedIn

    Name: Science Japan

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/science-japan/

  4. WeChat

    Name: Keguan Japan

    https://weixin.qq.com/r/QkQtNR3Ev0DArVlW9xFQ

    ID：keguanjp

  1. Basic Policy

    The following information will be disseminated on X, Facebook, LinkedIn and WeChat:

    • New announcements regarding APRC projects;
    • Notices of events relating to APRC projects; and
    • Information relating to the APRC as deemed appropriate by the APRC.
  2. Responding to inquiries and comments
    • The APRC shall not respond to individual comments directed to APRC official accounts or accept direct messages. For inquiries, please contact this e-mail address.
    • Comments that are unrelated to the contents of the post or fall under “3. Prohibitions” may be fully or partially hidden, deleted, or rejected without any prior notice to the party who posted the comment.
    • APRC official accounts shall not follow any followers.
    • Use of APRC accounts may be suspended or cancelled without prior notice.
  3. Disclaimer
    • While every effort has been undertaken to ensure the accuracy of the information published on APRC's accounts, the APRC shall bear no responsibility for any of the actions performed by users using information obtained through these accounts.
    • The APRC shall bear no responsibility for the comments, etc., posted by users.
    • The APRC shall bear no responsibility for any trouble or conflict between users or between users and third parties in connection with these accounts.
  4. Prohibitions:

    Please refrain from the following regarding this account.

    • Actions that infringe upon public order and morals.
    • Actions that promote criminal behavior.
    • Libelous actions that defame the reputation of or discredit particular individuals, companies, groups, etc.
    • Actions that identify, reveal, or disclose the personal information of others without their consent or infringe on their privacy in other ways.
    • Actions which infringe upon the intellectual property rights of JST or any other third party, including copyrights, trademark rights, and portrait rights.
    • Commercial activities, including advertising and announcements, or political or religious activities.li>
    • Posting false content or content that significantly differs from fact.
    • Actions that promote discrimination based on race, thoughts, or creeds, etc.
    • Constant posting of the same or similar content by an individual user.
    • Impersonating other users or third parties, etc.
    • Partially or completely modifying content posted by the APRC account.
    • Any other actions deemed to be unacceptable by APRC.

  5. Copyrights

    The copyright of content (text, images, video, sound, etc.) posted by APRC's accounts belongs to either JST itself or other third parties and is protected by copyright laws and other relevant treaties and laws. You may use content posted by the copyright holder, JST, without its express consent, as long as this usage is for education, news reporting, or research purposes and falls within the scope of copyright laws. Please ensure that you credit JST when using copyrighted content in this manner. You may also share this content through functions (embedded links, etc.) built into social media networks as long as this usage falls under the terms of usage for these networks. In this case, the above shall also apply.

    Credits shall clearly contain the source (JST), the name of the content, the URL, date issued or published (or date viewed if this is unclear), etc.

    • 〇　Example of credit:
    • "Source: Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), (social media name), (posted on date, month, year)"
    • "Source: portal site name ‘article title’ (X) (date of posting (year of posting if the month and date are unknown)), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)”