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Consumer politics in Postwar Japan : the institutional boundaries of citizen activism / Patricia L. Maclachlan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies of the East Asian InstitutePublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (337 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231505611 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Consumer politics in Postwar Japan : the institutional boundaries of citizen activism.DDC classification:
  • 381.3/4/095209045 21
LOC classification:
  • HC465.C63 M28 2002
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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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-304) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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