Act on the Protection of Consumers Who Use Digital Platforms for Shopping（Act No. 32 of 2021）.

This Act, consisting of 13 Articles, is enacted to ensure the cooperation of digital platform providers in optimizing transactions and promoting dispute resolution in relation to mail order sales (meaning mail order sales prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions (Act No. 57 of 1976)) using digital platforms for shopping, and thereby to protect consumers who use digital platforms for shopping.
The Prime Minister is to organize a public-private council for digital platforms for shopping comprised of the Prime Minister, relevant national government agencies, groups consisting of digital platform providers, the National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan, local governments, and consumer groups to make effective and smooth efforts to protect consumers who use digital platforms for shopping. The Act further makes provisions, inter alia, for: measures to promote voluntary efforts by digital platform providers to protect consumers, requests for suspension of the use of digital platforms for shopping from the Prime Minister, and requests for the disclosure of seller's or equivalent person's information from consumers.