With the announcement of a draft titled 'A certification system for Japanese restaurants overseas' in the autumn of 2006, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Japan, aiming to improve these situations, tried to issue a recommendation mark to the restaurants which were certified (later, the ministry changed its stance from certified to recommended) by the ministry for serving original Japanese foods.
こうした問題点を是正するため、日本の農林水産省は2006年秋、「海外日本食レストラン認証制度」案を発表し、本来の日本食を提供する店を認証（後に「推奨」と変更）して推奨マークを交付しようとした。