JFTC, transport bureau and labour bureau in a joint shipper patrol: five cities in Yamaguchi on October 21Officials are going out to visit the companies that have goods carried for them
On October 19, 2026 (Reiwa 8), the Japan Fair Trade Commission announced that three bodies, the Chugoku District Transport Bureau, the JFTC Chugoku Office and the Yamaguchi Labour Bureau, will jointly carry out a shipper patrol. It runs on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., covering the cities of Yamaguchi, Ube, Hofu, Sanyo-Onoda and Shunan in Yamaguchi Prefecture. To help head off violations of the Toritekiho and acts that cause violations of the revised logistics act, the bodies will visit the sales offices and logistics sites of shipper businesses for interviews and awareness-raising activities.
- October 19, 2026The three bodies announce that they will jointly carry out a shipper patrol
- October 21, 2026, 1:00 p.m.Visiting interviews and awareness-raising activities begin in five cities in Yamaguchi Prefecture
- October 21, 2026, 4:00 p.m.The patrol is scheduled to end
Key points
- Announced on October 19, 2026. The patrol runs on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- It is carried out jointly by three bodies: the Chugoku District Transport Bureau, the JFTC Chugoku Office and the Yamaguchi Labour Bureau
- The areas covered are the cities of Yamaguchi, Ube, Hofu, Sanyo-Onoda and Shunan in Yamaguchi Prefecture
- From the viewpoint of heading off violations of the Toritekiho and acts that cause violations of the revised logistics act, the bodies will hold visiting interviews and awareness-raising activities at the sales offices and logistics sites of shipper businesses
- The Toritekiho is the short name of the Act on Ensuring Fair Transactions with Small and Medium-sized Contractors, which took over from the Subcontract Act on January 1, 2026, and the JFTC states that it is working on prompt and strict enforcement
What to do in practice
- Check in-house whether the transport your company commissions as a shipper is handled in line with the Toritekiho and the revised logistics act
- Keep the contract terms and payment records of your transport commissions in order so that you can explain them if you are interviewed
The company that has goods carried by truck is called the shipper. Government offices are going out to see whether shippers are making unreasonable demands of the companies that do the carrying. It happens on October 21, 2026, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., in five cities in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Three offices, the Japan Fair Trade Commission, the Chugoku District Transport Bureau and the Yamaguchi Labour Bureau, will go round together, listen to what people say and tell them the rules.
- ○Applies: Visits the sales offices and logistics sites of shipper companies to listen
- ○Applies: Explains the rules so that violations do not happen
- ×Does not apply: Starts a new rule on that day
Points
- The day of the visits is October 21, 2026, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
- The places are the cities of Yamaguchi, Ube, Hofu, Sanyo-Onoda and Shunan in Yamaguchi Prefecture
- Three government offices go round together, listening to people and telling them the rules
What the words mean
- Shipper
- The company that asks a trucking company to carry something for it
- Toritekiho
- A law that stops a company placing an order from pushing the company that takes the order too hard
- Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC): JFTC: The Chugoku District Transport Bureau, the JFTC Chugoku Office and the Yamaguchi Labour Bureau will jointly carry out a shipper patrol
- Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC): JFTC: The Subcontract Act and the Subcontract Promotion Act have become the Toritekiho and the Shinkoho (in force from January 1, 2026 (Reiwa 8))
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