Verification Results for FY2024 (Published March 31, 2025)

Declaration date

March 31, 2025

Standard Number and Amendment Year

JIS X 8341-3：2016

Conformance Level Achieved

Level A Partial Conformance

Brief Description of Target Web Pages

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries website
(https://www.maff.go.jp/, https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/, https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/, https://www.affrc.maff.go.jp/, https://www.gyakubiki.maff.go.jp/appmaff/input/, https://www.contactus.maff.go.jp/voice/sogo.html 
websites under these domains)

List of Web Content Technologies Used

• XHTML
• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript 

Method and Number of Web Pages Selected for Testing

Based on JIS X 8341-3: 2016 "Appendix JB (Reference) Testing Method JB1.2d) Selecting web pages that represent the entire set of web pages and randomly selected web pages ," we selected a total of 120 pages consisting of "representative web pages (80 pages)" and "randomly selected web pages (40 pages)."

URL of the web page testes

Web pages that represent the entire set

• Top Page
  https://www.maff.go.jp/
• Feed
  https://www.maff.go.jp/j/chikusan/sinko/lin/l_siryo/index.html
• Basic Law on Food, Agriculture and Rural Areas
  https://www.maff.go.jp/j/basiclaw/index.html
• Living with Cattle!
  https://www.maff.go.jp/j/chikusan/kikaku/lin/natsu_zora.html
• Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries General Inquiry
  https://www.contactus.maff.go.jp/voice/sogo.html
• Export and International Affairs Bureau
  https://www.maff.go.jp/j/yusyutu_kokusai/index.html
• Statistical Information
  https://www.maff.go.jp/j/tokei/index.html
• Management
  https://www.maff.go.jp/j/keiei/index.html
• Top Page (English version)
  https://www.maff.go.jp/e/
• Our Regional Cuisines (English version)
  https://www.maff.go.jp/e/policies/market/k_ryouri/index.html
• JAS (Japanese Agricultural Standards) (English version)
  https://www.maff.go.jp/e/policies/standard/jas/index.html
• Hokkaido Agricultural Administration Office Homepage
  https://www.maff.go.jp/hokkaido/
• Obihiro Regional Center
  https://www.maff.go.jp/hokkaido/obihiro/index.html
• Tohoku Regional Agricultural Administration Office Homepage
  https://www.maff.go.jp/tohoku/
• Business Objectives and Contents
  https://www.maff.go.jp/tohoku/nouson/kokuei/tazawa/mokuteki.html
• Kanto Regional Agricultural Administration Office Homepage
  https://www.maff.go.jp/kanto/
• Districts Currently Under Implementation
  https://www.maff.go.jp/kanto/nouson/sekkei/kokuei/nishikan/gyomu/03_1.html
• Hokuriku Regional Agricultural Administration Office Homepage
  https://www.maff.go.jp/hokuriku/
• Forestry Section
  https://www.maff.go.jp/hokuriku/stat/data/r05nenpou/ringyou.html
• Tokai Regional Agricultural Administration Office Homepage
  https://www.maff.go.jp/tokai/
• Summer Festival @ Tokai Regional Agricultural Administration Office
  https://www.maff.go.jp/tokai/shohi/seikatsu/heya/kids/2024.html
• Kinki Regional Agricultural Administration Office Homepage
  https://www.maff.go.jp/kinki/
• Caution is Necessary for Curry Preservation!!
  https://www.maff.go.jp/kinki/syouhi/mn/foodpoisoning/curry.html
• Chugoku-Shikoku Regional Agricultural Administration Office Homepage
  https://www.maff.go.jp/chushi/
• Past News Updates
  https://www.maff.go.jp/chushi/nousei/tottori/news_arc.html
• Kyushu Regional Agricultural Administration Office Homepage
  https://www.maff.go.jp/kyusyu/
• Kyushu Food Education Plaza
  https://www.maff.go.jp/kyusyu/syohianzen/hiroba/hiroba.html
• Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Homepage
  https://www.maff.go.jp/primaff/
• Trends in the Agriculture Improvement Act (2018 Farm Bill)
  https://www.maff.go.jp/primaff/seika/pickup/2018/18_01.html
• The National Veterinary Assay Laboratory Homepage
  https://www.maff.go.jp/nval/
• Minimum Requirements for Veterinary Biological Products
  https://www.maff.go.jp/nval/kijyun/seizaikijyun/index.html
• Animal Quarantine Service
  https://www.maff.go.jp/aqs/
• Regarding Meat Products as Souvenirs (Bringing in as Luggage, International Mail, or Courier)
  https://www.maff.go.jp/aqs/tetuzuki/product/aq2.html
• Plant Protection Station
  https://www.maff.go.jp/pps/
• Detailed Information on Import and Export Conditions
  https://www.maff.go.jp/pps/j/search/detail.html
• Forestry Agency Homepage
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/
• Press Release Materials
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/j/press/index.html
• Overview of the Act on Promotion of Use and Distribution of Legally-harvested Wood and Wood Products (the Clean Wood Act)
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/j/riyou/goho/summary/summary.html
• Information on the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/j/saigai/joho/06saigainoto.html
• Shikaribetsu Recreation Forest (English Version)
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/e/national_forest/recreation_forest/shikaribetsu.html
• Hokkaido Regional Forest Office Homepage
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/hokkaido/
• General Competitive Bidding List
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/hokkaido/apply/publicsale/ippan.html
• Tohoku Regional Forest Office Homepage
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/tohoku/
• National Forest Maps
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/tohoku/keikaku/kokuyuurinzumen.html
• Kanto Regional Forest Office Homepage
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/kanto/
• Takao Forest Interaction Promotion Center "Hikagesawa Camp Site"
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/kanto/takao/campzyo/campzyo.html
• Chubu Regional Forest Office Homepage
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/chubu/
• Digital Forest Journal
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/chubu/photo/dezitaru-sinrinkikou.html
• Kinki-Chugoku Regional Forest Office Homepage
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/kinki/
• Yamaguchi Forest Management Office
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/kinki/yamaguchi/index.html
• Shikoku Regional Forest Office Homepage
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/shikoku/
• Request to Everyone Entering National Forests
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/shikoku/apply/nyurin/index.html
• Kyushu Regional Forest Office Homepage
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/kyusyu/
• Slope Failure at Ishimaru Miokakurayama (220-1), Munakata City
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/kyusyu/tisan/kiken-erea/fukuoka/400101220.html
• Fisheries Agency Homepage
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/
• Information by Field
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/j/gyosei/index.html
• Effects of Radioactive Substances on Fishery Products and Responses
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/j/koho/saigai/
• Results of the Monitoring on Radioactivity level in Fishery Products (English Version)
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/e/inspection/
• Results of the Monitoring on Radioactivity level in Fishery Products
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/j/housyanou/kekka.html
• Hokkaido Fisheries CoordinateManagement Office Homepage
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/hokkaido/
• Fisheries Enforcement Headquarters Sapporo Branch
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/hokkaido/kantoku/180330.html
• Sendai Fisheries Management Office Homepage
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/sendai/
• Fisheries Enforcement Headquarters Sendai Branch
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/sendai/kantoku/torishimarihonbusendaishibu.html
• Niigata Fisheries Management Office Homepage
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/niigata/
• Fisheries Inspection Vessel Belonging to the Niigata Branch
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/niigata/kantoku/syozokusen/syozokusen.html
• Sakaiminato Fisheries Management Office Homepage
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/sakaiminato/
• Regional Fisheries Coordination Committee for Japan Sea and west of Kyushu Japan Sea Western Section Information
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/sakaiminato/sigen/nishibukai.html
• Seto Inland Sea Fisheries CoordinateManagement Office Homepage
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/setouti/
• Red Tides in the Seto Inland Sea
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/setouti/akasio/index.html
• Kyushu Fisheries Management Office Homepage
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/kyusyu/
• Recruitment Information
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/kyusyu/joinus/recruit/index.html
• Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Council
  https://www.affrc.maff.go.jp/
• Japan International Award for Young Agricultural Researchers
  https://www.affrc.maff.go.jp/docs/researcher_praise/wakate_commendation/wakate_commendation-70.htm
• Reverse Dictionary Homepage
  https://www.gyakubiki.maff.go.jp/
• Reverse Dictionary (Investment)
  https://www.gyakubiki.maff.go.jp/appmaff/input/
• Reverse Dictionary (Forestry Edition - Best Practices)
  https://www.gyakubiki.maff.go.jp/appmaff/input/?domain=R
• Reverse Dictionary (Forestry Edition - Best Practices - Search Results)
  https://www.gyakubiki.maff.go.jp/appmaff/input/result.html?domain=R&tab=tab6&katu=YA%2CYB%2CYC%2CYP%2CYD%2CYE%2CYF%2CYG%2CYH%2CYI%2CYJ%2CYK%2CYL%2CYM%2CYN%2CYO&hin=40
• Reverse Dictionary (Fisheries Edition - Subsidies)
  https://www.gyakubiki.maff.go.jp/appmaff/input/index.html?domain=J
• Reverse Dictionary (Fisheries Edition - Subsidies - Search Results)
  https://www.gyakubiki.maff.go.jp/appmaff/input/result.html?domain=J&tab=tab2&area=00
• Reverse Dictionary (Fisheries Edition - Subsidies - Press "Compare" from Search Results)
  https://www.gyakubiki.maff.go.jp/appmaff/input/compare.html?domain=J&bunrui=A&id=PAGE000000000000446559,PAGE000000000000446558,PAGE000000000000418644

Randomly Sampled Web Pages

• Setting the course application period
  https://www.maff.go.jp/j/kanbo/tukuba/mito/anzen/bosyu_0504.html
• July 18-20 Business trip to Malaysia and Cambodia
  https://www.maff.go.jp/j/p_gal/p_sec/220718.html
• Meeting and event information (February 2024)
  https://www.maff.go.jp/j/pr/event/kaigi_release_2402.html
• Community farming
  https://www.maff.go.jp/j/kobetu_ninaite/n_seido/seido_syuuraku.html
• Kumamoto Prefecture: Our Regional Cuisines (English version)
  https://www.maff.go.jp/e/policies/market/k_ryouri/search_menu/pref/kumamoto/index.html
• Sazae meshi: Our Regional Cuisines (English version)
  https://www.maff.go.jp/e/policies/market/k_ryouri/search_menu/4576/index.html
• The Hokkaido Regional Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Products Export Promotion Council was held.
  https://www.maff.go.jp/hokkaido/suishin/photo_repo/20211014_kyougikai.html
• This month's consumer exhibition corner (July 2023)
  https://www.maff.go.jp/tohoku/syouan/soudan/corner/2023tenzi/20230705.html
• Business plan Certification based on the Law of Sixth Industrialization and Local Production for Local Consumption
  https://www.maff.go.jp/kanto/syokuryou/6jisangyo/ninnte.html
• Rice planting area and expected harvest for 2021 (as of September 25) (Hokuriku region)
  https://www.maff.go.jp/hokuriku/stat/data/211012.html
• Notice regarding road closure of Prefectural Road Hosokawa-Toyota Line (partial) due to restoration work related to the water leakage accident at Meiji-Yousui Irrigation Headwork
  https://www.maff.go.jp/tokai/press/nochi_seibi/220603.html
• Initiatives of the "Discussion Group to Revitalize Agriculture in Hyogo"
  https://www.maff.go.jp/kinki/tiiki/hyogo/p_repo/2019/20191203.html
• About the conclusion of agreement on emergency response operations in the event of a disaster
  https://www.maff.go.jp/chushi/kj/okayamam/event/ev201210.html
• Kyushu Agricultural Administration Office: Global Farmers / Fishermen / Foresters / Food Manufacturers Project Information Email Newsletter
  https://www.maff.go.jp/kyusyu/keiei/zigyo/merumaga.html
• Regular Research Meeting (2045th): "Employment Structure in Vietnamese Rural Areas Under Market Economy"
  https://www.maff.go.jp/primaff/koho/seminar/2007/20070612.html
• Procedures available through eMAFF for applications submitted to the National Veterinary Assay Laboratory
  https://www.maff.go.jp/nval/sinsei/eMAFF/ichiran.html
• Inappropriate cases related to import and export inspections, etc. of animal quarantine
  https://www.maff.go.jp/aqs/topix/futekisetsujirei.html
• Detailed plant quarantine regulations for fresh fruits of Tommy Atkins variety mangoes from Colombia
  https://www.maff.go.jp/pps/j/law/houki/saisoku/saisoku_228_html_228.html
• Part 1, Chapter 1, Section 3: Trends in Forest Conservation (4)
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/j/kikaku/hakusyo/R2hakusyo_h/all/chap1_3_4.html
• Regional evaluation results (preliminary evaluation)
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/j/sekou/hyouka/25feval2-1.html
• Part 1, Chapter 4, Section 1: Role of National Forests (1)
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/j/kikaku/hakusyo/r4hakusyo_h/all/chap4_1_1.html
• Annual Report on Forests and Forestry in Japan Full Text (FY2017) (CSV)
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/j/kikaku/hakusyo/29hakusyo_csv/all/index.html
• General competitive bidding list (Kamikawa Chubu District Forest Office)
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/hokkaido/apply/publicsale/ippan_kamikawatyubu.html
• Recreation Forests (4)
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/tohoku/syo/morioka/rekumori4.html
• Damage from the Noto Peninsula Earthquake of January 1, 2024 is reviewed (Helicopter survey)
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/kanto/press/tisan/240105.html
• Hida Niukawa: Paradise in the Sky, Welcome to Norikura [2017]
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/chubu/hozen/gss/hida/norikura-hida/h29.html
• Open recruitment for tree harvesting rights holder
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/kinki/policy/business/jyumokusaisyukenseido/20211022_1.html
• Tokushima Forest Management Office_Mt.Iya 5 Ro
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/shikoku/seibi/buniku/tokushima/77_iyayama_5ro.html
• General competitive bidding list (Kagoshima District Forest Office)
  https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/kyusyu/apply/publicsale/ippan_kagosima.html
• Technical Review Meeting on Project Evaluation Related to Fisheries Public Works
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/j/gyosei/assess/gizyutu/index.html
• (1) Global capture production, Global aquaculture production
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/j/kikaku/wpaper/r04_h/trend/1/t1_4_1.html
• Appended Form for the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on the Proper Implementation of Recreational Fishing Boat Businesses
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/j/enoki/yugyo/what/attach/attach/index.html
• July 14: Water supply activities at Iwagi Island, Kamijima Town, Ehime Prefecture by the Fisheries Agency fisheries inspection vessel "Shirasagi"
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/j/koho/foto/img/180718_3.html
• Jurisdictional affairs
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/hokkaido/org/work/index.html
• Resource recovery plans
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/sendai/shigenkaifukukeikaku/index.html
• Information regarding confiscation of fishing gear
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/niigata/kantoku/gyoguousyu/gyoguousyu_top.html
• Inspection status related to red snow crab
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/sakaiminato/kantoku/photo_benigani.html
• About the regular arrest of small-scale snurrevaad fishermen
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/setouti/press/soumu/220311.html
• Bills submitted to the Diet
  https://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/kyusyu/other/policy-9.html
• Summary of the 1st Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Council for FY2015
  https://www.affrc.maff.go.jp/docs/gikai/h2701.htm
  
  

Success Criterion Checklist

• For the "Application" column: "〇" indicates the criterion is applicable, while "-" indicates the criterion is not applicable
• For the "Result" column: "〇" indicates the criterion is met, while "×" indicates the criterion is not met. 

Test Implementation Period

October 8 to December 20, 2024

About "Level A Partial Conformance"

"Level A Partial Conformance" means that some of the Level A success criteria in JIS X 8341-3: 2016 could not be satisfied. This notation method is defined in the Information and Communication Access Council Web Accessibility Infrastructure Committee's "JIS X 8341-3:2016 Compliance Level Indication Guidelines for Web Content (external link)."

Test Implementer

This was conducted as a third-party evaluation commissioned to Allied Brains Inc.