Japan Textile Federation
Japan Textile Federation (JTF) is an organization that was established in 1970 based on the need to deal with U.S. regulations imposed on cotton products and mounting calls for introduction of regulations on imported wool and man-made fiber products.
Under our basic policy of “Creation and Reliability”, the JTF has conducted various activities in recent years to cope with ensuring proper transactions, securing of human resources, environment and safety issues, trade issues, collection and provision of useful information for information transmission projects, making requests to the government and other institutions in policy making process, and exchange with overseas textile industry organizations.
In January 2020, we developed the “Recommendations for a Desirable Shape of Our Industry in 2030” that depicts how the Japanese textile industry should be with assuming a possible situation surrounding the textile industry in 2030 and puts together challenges to be solved and directions for realization of a desirable shape. Also in August 2022, we drew up the “Guidelines for Responsible Corporate Conduct in Textile Industry” that serves as a guide for the Japanese textile industry to fulfill social responsibilities in terms of human rights.
For the year 2026, the JTF has set key topics of “Response to Ensuring Proper Transactions”, “Response to Strengthening of Supply Chain Robustness”, and “Response to Circular Economy” to cope with the six challenges as described below:
1 Response to Ensuring Proper Transactions
2 Response to Strengthening of Supply Chain Robustness
3 Response to Circular Economy
4 Active Approaches to Cope with Trade Issues and Exchange with Overseas Textile Industry Organizations
5 Strengthening of Information Transmission Capability and Brand Power
6 Response to Taxation IssuesThe member organizations of the JTF will, under the JTF’s basic policy of “Creation and Reliability”, create an environment that allows to make a defensive move in their business while reinforcing their organizational structure and raising their international competitiveness, and proceed with “aggressive” activities to make a new leap.
