POLICIES FOR INDUSTRIES IN GENERAL
(Industrial Policy Bureau/ Environmental Protection and Industrial Location Bureau/ Small and Medium Enterprise Agency)
Corporation
Unfair Competition Prevention Law The Law aims to maintain and improve conditions for orderly competition. It prevents unfair competition mainly by regulations of private sector affairs. (Industrial Organization Division, Industrial Policy Bureau)
Chamber of Commerce and Industry Law The Law stipulates matters with regard to the organization and operation of chambers of commerce and industry and the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry. (General Affairs Division, Industrial Policy Bureau)
Enterprise Rationalization Promotion Law The Law aims to promote corporations' rationalization by various measures including improving technique, promoting rapid modernization of plants and equipment in important industries, and guiding and recommending improvement of efficiency on unit raw material and unit power. (General Affairs Division, Industrial Policy Bureau)
Private Participation Promotional Law The Law aims to promote construction of facilities of R&D, international exhibitions, international conferences, information utilization and so on through private participation. (Office for the Promotion of Private Participation in Public Projects, Industrial Policy Bureau)
Law on Temporary Measures to Facilitate Specific New Business The Law aims to promote new business through debt guarantee, investment and stock option plans. (New Business Promotion Division, Industrial Policy Bureau)
Law for Promoting University-Industry Technology Transfer This law supports the projects and activities of the Technology Licensing Organization, which promotes the transfer of the results of research performed in academia to private enterprises, for the purpose of promoting the industrialization of innovative technology by Japan's universities, to improve industrial technology, and create new industries. (Technology Policy Division, Industrial Policy Bureau)
Law on Temporary Measures to Facilitate Business Innovation The Law stipulates measures to facilitate "business innovation" through the effective use of management resources by corporations in the industries facing effects of various and structural changes of economical circumstances in Japan as well as in the world. (Industrial Structure Division, Industrial Policy Bureau)
Law on Temporary Measures for Activation of Specific Regional Industrial Agglomerations In response to the various structural changes in the economy, this law seeks to promote the independent development of regional industry, and
thereby contribute to the sound development of the national economy through measures to use and activate the function of specific industrial agglomerations. (Industrial Location Policy Division, Environment and Industrial Location Bureau, Planning Division, Planning Department, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency)
Law for Facilitating the Creation of New Business This law seeks to promote, using Japan's accumulated business resources, the creation of new business, including establishment, manufacture of new products, provision of new roles and improvement of business systems, by providing support for founding a business by individuals or establishment and operation of new companies. (New Business Promotion Division, Industrial Policy Bureau/ Industrial Structure Division, Industrial Policy Bureau/ Regional Development Office, Environmental Protection and Industrial Location Bureau/ Information Services Industry Division, Machinery and Information Industries Bureau/ Planning Division, Planning Department, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency/ Technology Division, Guidance Department, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency)
National Life
Household Goods Quality Labeling Law The Law aims to protect consumers from losses caused by a lack of knowledge of products by requesting suppliers to provide appropriate labeling for consumers' correct understanding of products. (Consumer Affairs Division, Industrial Policy Bureau)
Law concerning Emergency Measures against Cornering and Speculative Stocking of Materials and Products related to Daily Life (Price Policy Division, Industrial Policy Bureau)
Consumer Products Safety Law The Law aims to protect interests of consumers. It restricts sales of specific products to prevent hazards to consumers' lives or bodies. It also stipulates measures to promote private sectors' spontaneous actions to secure safety of consumer products. (Product Safety Division, Industrial Policy Bureau/ Consumer Affairs Division, Industrial Policy Bureau)
Emergency Law for Stabilization of National Life (Price Policy Division, Industrial Policy Bureau)