The Consumer Affairs Agency has ordered Amway Japan G.K. to suspend certain operations in connection with illegal solicitation, the CAA said Friday.
The agency ordered the Tokyo-based company to stop trading for six months -- Oct. 14 to April 13 -- for violating the Specified Commercial Transactions Law in connection with a multilevel marketing scheme, also known as "pyramid selling."
The agency also issued an instruction to the company demanding it take measures to prevent a recurrence.