Label requirements · Japan

Japan label requirements — check your label

What a label sold in Japan must carry for food and drinks, other consumer goods, item by item, each with the law it comes from. Paste your label below: Drict shows what it found, on which line, and what is missing.

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Drict looks for the items each label law names, by key words. It is not legal advice and does not say a label is compliant: read the official text, and ask the authority or a specialist before you print.

Food and drinks — what a Japan label must show

7 mandatory · 3 only if it applies

Mandatory

  • Net quantity (内容量 / 内容総量) — 食品表示基準
  • List of ingredients (原材料名 / 原材料) — 食品表示基準
  • Allergens (アレルギー / 一部に) — 食品表示基準
  • Expiry date (賞味期限 / 消費期限) — 食品表示基準
  • Storage conditions (保存方法 / 保存) — 食品表示基準
  • Name and address of the manufacturer / packer / distributor (製造者 / 製造所) — 食品表示基準
  • Nutrition information (栄養成分表示 / 熱量) — 食品表示基準

Only if it applies

  • Name and address of the importer (輸入者 / 輸入元) — 食品表示基準
  • Origin (原産国名 / 原産国) — 食品表示基準
  • Directions for use (使用方法 / 調理方法) — 食品表示基準

Language: No Japanese or Chinese found — labels sold in Japan must be in Japanese (食品表示基準, art. 8).

Check by eye: The 一括表示 box (名称・原材料名・添加物・内容量・賞味期限・保存方法・製造者): check its frame and order yourself. Additives (添加物) are set apart from the ingredients with “/”.

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Other consumer goods — what a Japan label must show

1 mandatory · 4 only if it applies

Mandatory

  • Name and address of the manufacturer / packer / distributor (製造者 / 製造所) — 家庭用品品質表示法

Only if it applies

  • Net quantity (内容量 / 内容総量) — 家庭用品品質表示法
  • Origin (原産国名 / 原産国) — 家庭用品品質表示法
  • Directions for use (使用方法 / 調理方法) — 家庭用品品質表示法
  • Warnings (注意 / 警告) — 家庭用品品質表示法

Language: No Japanese or Chinese found — labels sold in Japan must be in Japanese (食品表示基準, art. 8).

Check by eye: Product name: check it yourself — in the languages the law requires. Safety symbols, logos and certification marks are images — they cannot be found as text.

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