TOKYO -- Japan and the European Union agreed in substance on Thursday to allow the movement of personal information between their jurisdictions as soon as this fall, as Tokyo works to update rules for how Japanese corporations manage user data to meet the EU's new privacy law.
Vera Jourova, the European justice commissioner, told reporters here that she had made progress on reconciling protection standards in her meeting with Haruhi Kumazawa, an official on Japan's Personal Information Protection Commission.
