The term "Consumer" as used in this Act means an individual (other than an individual engaging in a commercial, industrial, financial, or other business undertaking).
この法律において「消費者」とは、個人（商業、工業、金融業その他の事業を行う場合におけるものを除く。）をいう。
The term "Enterprise" as used in this Act means a person engaged in a commercial, industrial, financial, or other business undertaking (and is applicable to an individual only when the individual is engaging in such a business undertaking).
この法律において「事業者」とは、商業、工業、金融業その他の事業を行う者（個人にあっては、当該事業を行う場合におけるものに限る。）をいう。
The term "Ensuring Consumer Safety" as used in this Act means preventing Consumers from suffering harm in their lives as consumers and ensuring their safety.
この法律において「消費者安全の確保」とは、消費者の消費生活における被害を防止し、その安全を確保することをいう。
The term "Safe to Use" as used in this Act means the level of safety that a good or product (meaning a good or product that it is the business of an Enterprise to supply; an object, facility, or structure that an Enterprise provides or allows Consumers to use in order to further its business; an object, facility, or structure used in a service that it is the business of an Enterprise to provide; or an object, facility, or structure used in a service that an Enterprise provides in order to further its business; hereinafter the same applies) or a service (limited to a service that it is the business of an Enterprise to provide or one that it provides in order to further its business; hereinafter the same applies) should normally have when a Consumer uses that good or product (including eating or drinking it) or makes use of that service (hereinafter these activities are referred to as "Use"), given the characteristics of the good or product or the service, the normal and foreseeable ways in which Consumers will Use it, and other circumstances attending the good or product or the service.
The term "Actual or Potential Consumer-Related Incident" as used in this Act means an accident or circumstance as set forth in one of the following items:
この法律において「消費者事故等」とは、次に掲げる事故又は事態をいう。
an accident that occurs in association with a Consumer's Use of a good or product that it is the business of an Enterprise to supply; an object, facility, or structure that an Enterprise provides or allows Consumers to use in order to further its business; a service that it is the business of an Enterprise to provide; or a service that an Enterprise provides in order to further its business, in which the life or health of a Consumer is harmed to the extent provided by Cabinet Order (other than an accident that clearly was not caused by a deficiency in the good or product or the service involved in the accident in terms of it being Safe to Use);
a circumstance meeting the requirements provided by Cabinet Order for being regarded as a circumstance in which a Consumer's Use of a good or product or a service that is not Safe to Use is likely to cause an accident as set forth in the preceding item; and
any circumstance other than as set forth in the preceding two items, in which an Enterprise engages in deceitful or exaggerated advertising or any other action provided by Cabinet Order that is likely to wrongfully harm the interests of a Consumer or interfere with a Consumer's voluntary and rational choice-making.
The term "Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm" as used in this Act means an accident set forth in item (i) of the preceding paragraph or a circumstance set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph.
The term "Actual or Potential Serious Accident" as used in this Act means an accident or circumstance set forth in one of the following items:
この法律において「重大事故等」とは、次に掲げる事故又は事態をいう。
an accident as set forth in paragraph (5), item (i) which meets the requirements provided by Cabinet Order for being regarded as involving serious harm; and
第五項第一号に掲げる事故のうち、その被害が重大であるものとして政令で定める要件に該当するもの
a circumstance set forth in paragraph (5), item (ii) which meets the requirements provided by Cabinet Order for being regarded as likely to cause an accident as set forth in the preceding item.
The term "Circumstances Financially Damaging to a Great Number of Consumers" as used in this Act means circumstances as set forth in paragraph (5), item (iii), in which dealings as follows that involve an action as set forth in paragraph (5), item (iii) are taken by an Enterprise, and this damages or is likely to damage the finances of a great number of Consumers:
unfair dealings that are prejudicial to the financial interests of the Consumer, in which the contents or terms and conditions indicated to the Consumer with respect to the goods, services, rights, or other subject of the dealings are significantly different from the actual contents or terms and conditions; or
unfair dealings, other than as set forth in the preceding item, which are prejudicial to the financial interests of the Consumer and which are provided by Cabinet Order.
Consumer
「消費者」
An individual, except when carrying on a commercial, industrial, financial or other business.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
Enterprise
「事業者」
Any person carrying on a commercial, industrial, financial or other business; an individual counts only when acting in the course of such a business.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (2)· applies throughout the law
Ensuring Consumer Safety
「消費者安全の確保」
Preventing consumers from suffering harm in their lives as consumers and keeping them safe.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (3)· applies throughout the law
Usemachine translation
「使用等」
A consumer's use of goods, products, facilities and the like (including eating or drinking them) or of services.
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (4)
good or product
「商品等」
Goods and products a business (事業者) supplies as its business, and objects, facilities and structures it provides or lets people use for its business or uses in providing a service as or for its business.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (4)
Safe to Usemachine translation
「消費安全性」
The safety a good, product, facility or service should normally have when a consumer uses it, judged by its characteristics, the ways it can normally be expected to be used (including eaten or drunk) and other circumstances.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (4)· applies throughout the law
Actual or Potential Consumer-Related Incident
「消費者事故等」
Any of three kinds of event: an accident in which a consumer using a business's goods, facilities or services suffers harm to life or body to the degree a Cabinet Order (政令) sets (unless it clearly was not caused by the thing being unsafe); a situation in which a consumer used something not safe to use that a Cabinet Order treats as likely to cause such an accident; or a business's false or exaggerated advertising or other conduct a Cabinet Order names that may unfairly harm consumers' interests or their free and rational choice.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (5)· applies throughout the law
Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm
「生命身体事故等」
An accident in which a consumer suffers harm to life or body to the degree a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, or a situation likely to cause such an accident, as listed in Article 2, paragraph (5), items (i) and (ii).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (6)· applies throughout the law
Actual or Potential Serious Accident
「重大事故等」
An accident in which a consumer suffers harm to life or body that a Cabinet Order (政令) treats as serious, or a situation in which something not safe to use was used that a Cabinet Order treats as likely to cause such an accident.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (7)· applies throughout the law
Circumstances Financially Damaging to a Great Number of Consumersmachine translation
「多数消費者財産被害事態」
A situation under Article 2, paragraph (5), item (iii) in which a business (事業者) deals with consumers unfairly and against their financial interests, by presenting the goods, services, rights or terms of the deal as significantly different from what they are or in another way a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, so that the property of many consumers is or may be damaged.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (8)· applies throughout the law