Local Communities/JapaneseTeam/Country Support

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Food categories

Local_Communities/JapaneseTeam/Taxonomy

Labels

Useful guide to read a Japanese Label

Laws

• Food_additives#Japan
• Dates_on_the_products#Japan
• User:Tacinte#Japanese_Regulation_on_Food_Labelling

Consumer Organisations

Consumer_associations#Japan

National food companies

Independant brands

• List them here

Distributor brands

• List them here

Help convince local producers to share their data

🏭 Food manufacturers and retailers Yes! To enrich the database, we can count on contributors... but also on food manufacturers! Indeed, as they are the source of the data, which often means that they are able to provide good quality data, and in bigger volumes than manual individual contributions.
Help convince local producers to share their data

Traceability Codes and Origins db

• Food_Traceability_Codes/Eggs#Japan
• Geographic food origins databases

Translations

• https://translate.openfoodfacts.org/project/openfoodfacts/ja

Communities we can reach out to

• Facebook groups (local food, slow food, non-GMOs, organic…)
• Meetups
• Industry events

Local App Stores

• Rakuten ?

Open Products Facts

• Object_donation_websites#Japan

Open Prices - Access to Information requests (GDPR requests)

As part of Project:Open-Prices, we need price points for products, loads of them.

If you have a fidelity card, you can ask your data, using the GDPR (if you're in a EU country, or using other laws if you're elsewhere). https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/GDPR_request#Japan

Past and present Japan issues on GitHub

• Japan issues on the Backend/Web/API (GitHub)
• Japan issues on the Mobile App (GitHub)

Stats

• You can see the evolution of the number of products at: https://jp.openfoodfacts.org/product-count
• You can see the quality of ingredient parsing in Japanese: https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Ingredients_Analysis_Quality_Evaluation_-_August_2023#JP_-_Japanese

Get in touch

Slack channel #japan