In March 2022, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) created the "Study Group on Guidelines for Respecting Human Rights in Supply Chains” to establish a cross-industry guideline for human rights due diligence. Prior to the finalising development of the guideline around September, public comments were solicited from 8-29 for the draft guidelines.

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre made a co-submission with the World Benchmarking Alliance.

On 13 September 2022, the government published the Guidelines after receiving more than 700 public comments from 131 organisations, businesses and individuals.