{"id":229107,"date":"2026-01-16T01:23:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/japans-mobile-software-competition-act-msca-what-devs-should-know"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:23:19","slug":"japans-mobile-software-competition-act-msca-what-devs-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/japans-mobile-software-competition-act-msca-what-devs-should-know","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA): What Devs Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japans-mobile-software-competition-act-msca-what-devs-should-know2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&lt;p&gt;Japan\u2019s Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA) has come into force, setting new ground rules across the entire mobile ecosystem in the country. Here\u2019s what you should know.&lt;\/p&gt;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Japan\u2019s Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA) has come into force, setting new ground rules across the entire mobile ecosystem in the country. Here\u2019s what you should know.&lt;\/p&gt;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}