Health Promotion Act （Act No. 103 of 2002）.

The purpose of this Act is to prescribe the basic particulars involved in comprehensively advancing the people's improvement of their health, as well as to implement measures that are meant to enable the people to improve their nutrition and make other such improvements in their health. The Act consists of 78 Articles divided into 9 Chapters: General Provisions; Basic Policy and Related Matter; sNational Health and Nutrition Surveys and Related Matters; Health Guidance and Related Matters; Specified Food Service Facilities; Prevention of Passive Smoking; Making Representations About a Special Use; Miscellaneous; Penal Provisions.
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to establish a basic policy for comprehensively advancing the people's improvement of their health. The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare shall carry out national health and nutrition surveys as foundational information for comprehensively advancing the people's improvement of their health, in order to clarify the physical conditions, nutrient intake, and lifestyle conditions of the people, analyze the results of national health and nutrition surveys and other such surveys and research on health maintenance and improvement, and establish standards for nutritional intake from food based on the result of the analysis(art.10, 16). Prefectures, cities that have health centers, and special wards shall carry out the following operations: (i)providing the nutritional guidance and other such public health guidance that is needed to enable residents to improve their health and that requires specialized knowledge and skills; (ii)providing the necessary guidance and advice on implementing nutritional management to food service facilities that provide meals to a large number of specific people on a continuous basis; etc.