This book examines Japan's postwar consumer protection movement, which, organized largely by housewives, led to the passage of basic consumer protection legisla

Providing comparisons to the United States and Britain, this book examines Japan's postwar consumer protection movement. Organized largely by and for housewives

This book examines Japan's postwar consumer protection movement, which, organized largely by housewives, led to the passage of basic consumer protection legisla

In 1960 millions of Japanese citizens took to the streets for months of protest against the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty (Anpo) and its forcible ratification by t

This is a vivid account of the corrupt and improbable political machine that ran Japanese politics for twenty years, from the early 1970s to the early 1990s, th