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(1) Anyone wishing to may freely establish links to the website, for their own purposes and on their own responsibility, provided that the method employed does not violate copyright law (such as displaying content from the website within a frame on another Web page).

However, sites falling into the following categories are strictly prohibited from establishing links to the website:

* Sites containing material intended to libel, defame, or impair public trust in IPSS.

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* It is recommended that the links are to be established either with the toppage of our site (http://www.ipss.go.jp/index.html) or the toppage of the english site (http://www.ipss.go.jp/index-e.html). For other pages, URL may change without announcement. We recommend for use of our barner gif, to creat　your lint.

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