Local Communities/JapaneseTeam/Country Support

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Food categories

• Local_Communities/JapaneseTeam/Taxonomy
• You can help completing Japanese categories and labels for the Eco-Score

Labels

Useful guide to read a Japanese Label

Industry labels

• List them here

Public & Independent labels

• List them here

Religious labels

• List them here

Laws

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

Traffic light systems and others

• List them here

Food Scandals

• List them here

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

Supermarket chains

• List them here

Traceability Codes and Origins db

• Geographic food origins databases
• List them here

Local databases of interest

• Help add the local egg traceability system: https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Food_Traceability_Codes/Eggs#Japan
• List them here

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 ?

Local OFF contributor missions

• List them here

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

Follow Open Food Facts on social media

• Open Food Facts has created presence on social media over the years in many languages. We now have the capacity to produce content in English and French, but we have a harder time translating and posting to all accounts. You can help by joining the marketing channel on Slack, and proposing to help for your language/country. Please get in touch with the permanent team before anything.
• Follow Open Food Facts social media accounts for Japan: Public_Relations/Social_Media_accounts#Japan

Get in touch

Slack channel #japan