Consumer Politics in Postwar Japan
by Patricia L. Maclachlan
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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- 381.3 — Society, government, & culture Commerce, communications & transportation regulations Domestic Trade (Commerce) Commercial policy
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- HC465 .C63 .M28 — Social sciences Economic history and conditions Economic history and conditions By region or country
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