Consumer Politics in Postwar Japan

The Institutional Boundaries of Citizen Activism

Nonfiction, History, Asian, Japan, Business & Finance
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Author: Patricia Maclachlan ISBN: 9780231505611
Publisher: Columbia University Press Publication: December 26, 2001
Imprint: Columbia University Press Language: English
Author: Patricia Maclachlan
ISBN: 9780231505611
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication: December 26, 2001
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Language: English

Providing comparisons to the United States and Britain, this book examines Japan's postwar consumer protection movement. Organized largely by and for housewives and spurred by major cases of price gouging and product contamination, the movement led to the passage of basic consumer protection legislation in 1968. Although much of the story concerns the famous "iron triangle" of big business, national bureaucrats, and conservative party politics, Maclachlan takes a broader perspective. She points to the importance of activity at the local level, the role of minority parties, the limited utility of the courts, and the place of lawyers and academics in providing access to power. These mild social strategies have resulted in a significant amount of consumer protection.

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Providing comparisons to the United States and Britain, this book examines Japan's postwar consumer protection movement. Organized largely by and for housewives and spurred by major cases of price gouging and product contamination, the movement led to the passage of basic consumer protection legislation in 1968. Although much of the story concerns the famous "iron triangle" of big business, national bureaucrats, and conservative party politics, Maclachlan takes a broader perspective. She points to the importance of activity at the local level, the role of minority parties, the limited utility of the courts, and the place of lawyers and academics in providing access to power. These mild social strategies have resulted in a significant amount of consumer protection.

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