On March 30, Japan Patent Office (JPO) released Status Report 2021, which shows in 2021, in Japan, 289,200 patent applications have been filed, including 72,782 international patent applications under the PCT, with an increase compared to 2020, among which 238,557 patent examination requests were received by JPO, with 184,372 eventually granted, both data of examined patents and the actual granted ones also climbed compared to 2020. Except from domestic Japan (222,452 applications in 2021), Japanese patent applications have originated from various countries and regions, the U.S (24,999 applications), China (9,369 applications), Germany (5,965 applications), South Korea (5,936 applications) ranked the top four. The top three domestic patent holders are Mitsubishi, Toyota and Canon, while the top three foreign patent holders are LG Chem, Huawei and Philips. Additionally, the improvement of patent examination quality with shrunk of the cost time and the various measures taken to support diversified intellectual property activities held by multifarious bodies are also mentioned and described in the report.