Under the law passed on December 10, 2022,[1] the Consumer Affairs Agency now also has jurisdiction over the issue of donations between religious juridical persons and their followers.

[1] Individual ministries had their own relevant departments, but after a number of scandals involving food poisoning and various types of accidents caused by substandard products manufactured in or imported to Japan, it was decided that an independent body was needed to protect the interests of consumers.

In addition, past administrative policies tended to focus more on the needs and interests of producers and industry, rather than consumers.

[3] The original plans for the agency were made in January 2008 under the administration of Liberal Democratic Party Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, after a high-profile food poisoning case of Chinese dumplings.

The bill to create the agency cleared the lower house of the Japanese diet unanimously on April 16, 2009 under the administration of Tarō Asō and with the cooperation of the then-opposition Democratic Party of Japan.