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Japan

http://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/other/wz_assistancedog_e.htm

Applies to	Guide, Hearing, and Service Dogs
Accessibility	For only officially qualified Assistance Dogs, full and free use of the streets, highways, sidewalks, walkways, public buildings, public facilities, other public places, equal access, as are other members of the general public, to accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of all common carriers, airplanes, motor vehicles, railroad trains, motorbuses, taxis, boats or any other public conveyances or modes of transportation, hotels, lodging places, places of public accommodation, amusement or resort and other places to which the general public is invited, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, or Japanese government’s regulation, and applicable alike to all persons. Exceptionally, the above all places and all public transportation could deny them if there will be the possibility of huge damage toward people by Assistance Dogs.
Interference	not mentioned
Housing	All public housing must accept them. But any private housing should accept them as much as possible.
Licenses/Fees	For applying the examination of licenses, the owner has to pay over 100,000 yen.
Identification	Official identification card, Guide Dog must be in harness, Hearing Dogs must be wearing blaze orange hearing dog cape, and Service Dogs have to wear Service Dogs jackets or back pack.
Misrepresentation	not mentioned
Trainers	not mentioned
White Cane	no cautionary statute; no proclamation
Injury to Dog	Defined in The Law of Assistance Dog of Persons with Physical Disability.
Penalties	not mentioned
Summary	The Law of Assistance Dog of Persons with Physical Disability guarantees a blind, deaf or physically disabled person has a right to be accompanied by a specially trained dog, in housing, all public accommodations and on all common carriers, if the dog can be qualified as an officially accredited Assistance Dog from a recognized school registered by the Labor and Health Minister and is properly guided by a harness, a hearing dog cape or, service dog cape or back pack.

Accessibility	Chapter 4C.7.8.9.10.11
Housing	Chapter 4C.7.11
Licenses/Fees	Chapter 1C.2.3.4; Chapter 3C.6; Chapter 5C.15.16.17.18
Injury to Dog	Chapter 6C.21.22

Courtesy of Moto Arima, Japan Hearing Dogs For Deaf People, 3200 Miyada Kami-Ina, Japan

City, Nagano