Consumer Affairs Agency, Japan (消費者庁)

Jurisdiction: Japan

caa.go.jp

Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency (消費者庁), through its リコール情報サイト — the Recall Information Site at recall.caa.go.jp. Japan splits product safety across ministries, and this register is where they meet: every notice carries a 参照情報 row naming the ministry whose own notice it mirrors, so one register reaches METI's electrical recalls, MLIT's vehicle recalls and the rest without our having to guess which ministry owns a battery. Its ten categories run from 食料品 (food) through 家電製品 (electrical appliances) to 車両・乗り物 (vehicles).

No notice from Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency is published here. That is a statement about our work and not about theirs: it means nothing they have published has both matched this catalogue’s subject — golf carts and the batteries, chargers, motors and controllers they run on — and been read and decided by a person. Their own record is the complete one, and their own search is linked below.

The Agency's own title for a notice is a sentence naming the business, the product in 「」 and the remedy, and that is what a record here carries beside the notice's prose. Japanese notices are rendered into English beneath the Japanese and labelled as ours. Their server is slow and occasionally times out, so this catalogue's Japanese coverage fills over several runs rather than in one — a category is walked to its end against the Agency's own count of it before a run is allowed to stop early.

Check the source yourself

Anything absent from this site is absent from our records, which is not the same as absent from the regulator’s. Search Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency directly:

recall.caa.go.jp

Using this regulator’s data

Licence: 公共データ利用規約（第1.0版） — Public Data License 1.0 ("PDL1.0"), Digital Agency, 5 July 2024; the Agency's own terms state it is compatible with CC BY 4.0
Required attribution: 出典：消費者庁リコール情報サイト — Source: Consumer Affairs Agency Recall Information Site (the notice's own address is printed beside this).
Images: Not separately addressed for notice imagery, which falls under the general PDL1.0 grant if the Agency holds the rights in it. Symbol marks, logos and character designs are expressly outside the rules — 「組織や特定の事業を表すシンボルマーク、ロゴ、キャラクターデザイン」 — and no image from this authority is reproduced here.
What their terms permit: Reproducing their words: yesEditing them: yesCommercial use: yesTheir logo: no
Their terms: recall.caa.go.jp/about/index.php
Terms last read: September 23, 2026

Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency allow their material to be reused on the terms named above, and this catalogue uses it on those terms: their words are attributed to them, our own summaries are marked as ours, and their notice's address is printed on every page that quotes them. No logo or image of theirs is used anywhere on this site.

The recall site's own copyright policy, section 4(1) of 「このサイトについて」, rendered in a browser because the page is JavaScript-built and returns an empty shell to a plain request: 「当サイトで掲載・発信している情報（以下「コンテンツ」といいます。）は、権利表記の記載がない限り「公共データ利用規約（第1.0版）」（以下「PDL1.0」といいます。）に準拠した利用条件の下で利用することができます。」 Our English, labelled as ours: the information published and transmitted on this site may, unless a rights notice states otherwise, be used under terms conforming to the Public Data License version 1.0. PDL1.0 itself, published by the Digital Agency on 5 July 2024 and read at digital.go.jp, is what grants the permissions recorded above: 「複製、公衆送信、翻訳・変形等の翻案等、自由に利用できます……商用利用も可能です。」 — reproduction, public transmission, translation, adaptation and the like may be used freely; commercial use is also possible — and 「本利用ルールは、クリエイティブ・コモンズ・ライセンスの表示4.0国際ライセンス……と互換性があります。」, this rule is compatible with CC BY 4.0. Editing carries its own condition: 「コンテンツを編集・加工等して利用する場合は、上記出典とは別に、編集・加工等を行ったことを記載してください。また編集・加工した情報を、あたかも国（又は府省等）が作成したかのような態様で公表・利用することは禁止します。」 — state separately that you edited it, and never publish edited information as though the State produced it. That is the rule our English renderings sit under, and it is why every one of them is labelled as ours beneath the Japanese. ONE CAVEAT THE SITE STATES ABOUT ITSELF: 「当サイトは、原則、関係行政機関等が公表した情報や事業者が自社サイト上に掲載している情報を、消費者庁で所定のフォーマットに編集して掲載しています。」 — as a rule this site edits into a set format information published by the relevant administrative agencies and by businesses on their own sites. PDL1.0 covers the Agency's rendering; a business's own recall notice behind the 参照情報 link is that business's copyright, not the Agency's to license.

This page indexes recalls and safety alerts Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency has published that we have ingested from its own official source. It is not the regulator’s own site; their address is printed above and their own search is linked, and theirs is the authoritative record.

Recalls in our database

Every notice we publish from Japan

None from Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency.