4. Consumer Politics Under Early One-Party Dominance: 1955 to the Late 1960s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. Japanese Consumer Advocacy from Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Perspectives
6. 1. Toward a Framework for the Study of Consumer Advocacy 13
7. 2. Consumer Advocacy in the United States and Britain 31
8. 3. The Politics of an Emerging Consumer Movement: The Occupation Period 58
9. 4. Consumer Politics Under Early One-Party Dominance: 1955 to the Late 1960s 85
10. 5. The Post-1968 Consumer Protection Policymaking System and the Consumer Movement’s Response 111
11. Part 2. Case Studies: The Impact of Japanese Consumer Advocacy on Policymaking
12. 6. The Right to Choose: The Movement to Amend the Antimonopoly Law 143
13. 7. The Right to Safety: The Movement to Oppose the Deregulation of Food Additives 175
14. 8. The Right to Redress: The Movement to Enact a Product Liability Law 201
15. 9. The Right to Be Heard: The Past, Present, and Future of the Japanese Consumer Movement 233
16. Notes 255
17. Bibliography 277
18. Index 305