Online medicine sellers brought a suit against the government

May 25, online medicine sellers, Kenko.com. Inc. and Wellnet,Inc. brought a suit against government of Japan because MHLW enacted Pharmaceutical Affairs Law Enforcement Order which prohibits selling medicine except counter selling.

Online sellers insists that the Order is illegal because it infringes the freedom of business guaranteed in the Constitution and it’s beyond the scope of the mandate of Pharmaceutical Affairs Law.

Truly, the Law doesn’t provide for counter selling doctrine. But nowadays, some people overdose on online selling medicines and fall sick.

MHLW thinks the cause of the overdose is online selling is too easy to purchase, so they enacted the order trough the council.

But online sellers were not allowed to participate in the council.