To everyone who operates a restaurant

Following a large-scale fire that occurred in Itoigawa City, Niigata Prefecture on December 22, 2016, restaurants with a total area of less than 150 square meters, which had no obligation to install fire extinguisher under the Fire Service Law, will be required to install fire extinguisher from October 1, 2019.

In restaurants, if all of the following apply, fire extinguisher must be established in accordance with Article 10 of the Fire Services Act Enforcement Order.

1. The total area of the building is less than 150 square meters
2. In order to provide food and drink as a business, facilities or appliances that use fire such as a stove are provided.

• If the entire building area is 150 square meters or more, installation is required before.
• If equipment or appliances that use fire, such as stoves, have measures that are effective for fire prevention (such as cooking oil heating prevention equipment), installation of fire extinguisher is not required.

With this revision of the Fire Services Act, the newly established fire extinguisher is obliged to inspect every six months in accordance with Article 17-3-3 of the Fire Services Act and report it to the fire department once a year.

• Equipment inspection: Once every six months
• Inspection report: Once a year (addressed to the nearest fire chief)

• Pamphlet summarizing inspection methods and procedures for filling out the inspection result reportfire extinguisher's own inspection report (Fire and Disaster Management Agency, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) (PDF: 2,023KB)
• The Fire and Disaster Management Agency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications also provides an app (trial version) that allows you to report inspections of fire extinguisher.fire extinguisher Inspection App (outside site)
• About inspection and report of firefighting equipment(It is linked to the firefighting equipment inspection page.)

• fire extinguisher's Law Revision (PDF: 754KB)
• For more information, click here.Fire departmentPlease contact us for more information.