Preface
- Consumer Policy in the 21st Century Revisited
Special Feature 1, Illegality of Unification Church (Trial, Politics, ICSA SLAPP)
- The Supreme Court’s decision on July 11, 2024 clearly set out the new criteria for judgment
- The relationship between politics and religion in the Unification Church issue
- Commentary on the SLAPP Lawsuit Judgment (Tokyo District Court, July 1, 2024) by Women’s Coalition for Peace
- Participating in the 2024 ICSA Barcelona Conference
- Let me hear your voice – I am sure there is damage that I can teach with my own hands
- France: Law to Strengthen Measures against Cults and Improve Support for Victims, Pure Mind Control Crime and Alternative (Fake) Medicine Crime [full text on the web]
Special Feature 2, Increase in Cashless Payment and Damage disputes
- Opinion Calling for Establishment of Obligation to Investigate Merchants such as Payment Agents in Cashless Payment
- Electronic Money Settlement in Malicious Site Cases Still Unabated
- Report on the Judgment in the “First Penguin” Case
- (Resources)Opinion Requesting the Establishment of Obligations of Payment Agents, etc. in Cashless Payment to Investigate Merchants, etc. (JFBA)
Series 1, Consumer Legislation, Consumer Affairs Agency, Consumer Commission
- Report from the 8th Consumer Commission
- Partial Amendment of Food Labeling Standards (Functional Foods)
- The Consumer Safety Law should provide for warrant request procedures
- Code of Conduct and Legal Effects under Consumer Law(2), Subject Areas and Legal Effects, Obligation to Make Efforts, Obligation to Establish System
- Message from the Chairperson of Consumer Affairs Committee of Japan Federation of Bar Associations
- Activities of Consumer Protection Committee of Osaka Bar Association
Series 2, Usury, Commercial Loans (loans for small and medium-sized businesses)
- Reduce the harshness of long-term addition of 146% late payment penalty, Article 9, Item 2 of Consumer Contract Act
- Damage ReliefAactivities of Association of victims of loan sharks, “Osaka Icho no Kai”
- The initial movement of the Anti-creditors Association (3)
- For strengthening the democratic movement in Japan (40), Let the people obey the law, Responsibilities and ethics of the professionals
Series 3, Anti-Poverty and Rehabilitation
- The statistical fraud should not be within the scope of discretionary power, Rejecting price disguise (21)
- Lawsuit for State Redress over abolition of welfare for Ikoma City women
Series 4, Special Commercial Law, Depository Receipt Law and Credit (installment sales)
- The current situation of Door-to-Door Sales and Telemarketing Sales
- The current situation and countermeasures to the malicious Multi-label Marketing
- Consumer Damage Disputes of Internet Mail Order Sales and Necessity of Amendment to the Special Commercial Code
- Serial, Multilevel Marketing (1), Current Situation
Series 5, Consumer Contract Law, Malicious Transactions
- Inquiry activities regarding the website display of the supplement pill “Ryukyu Shugo Densetsu” provided by “Okinawa Choseisou Honsha” Inquiry activities regarding website labeling
- Online Regular Meeting, University Co-op, Understanding Students’ Lives from the 59th Annual Student Life Survey Report
- Nara Shohisha Net (consumer network), Certified as a qualified consumer organization
- Inheritance business by administrative scrivener
- Side job scam
- About bogus debt settlement problem by lawyers and judicial scriveners (2024, No.3)
Series 6, Civil code and other laws
- Problems of “No.1” advertisement in the Premiums and Representation Law
- Series, Third Lecture on rental housing, Restoration to original condition
- Do not leave anonymous A’s regret in the dark Public Interest, Whistleblowing and Dowa Interest at stake regarding problems of the discriminated tribal people)
Series 7, Banking, Securities, Insurance, and Futures
- Recent Amendments to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, Financial Services Act
- Lawsuit for damages against META due to false advertising on social networking sites
- The Dangers of Internet Banking
Series 8, PL (Product Liability)
- About the Amended Consumer Product Safety Law in 2024
- Serial Article, Infant suffocation accident by imported bed guard, Tokyo District Court Decision on March 22, 2024
Series 9, Defective Housing
- For 100% repair of defects in common areas of condominiums
- Serial Article, Basic knowledge of defective housing dispute (67)
Series 10, Food Safety
- Serial Article, Spreading RNA Manipulation and Development of RNA Pesticides
- Scientism Suppresses Consumer Movement [full text on the web]
Series 11, Animal Law
- Notice of the Case of Interference with Feeding by Hyogo Prefecture Animal Protection Center against Community Cat Activities
- Killing of Animals and Donation of Milk Volunteers, Facts of Hyogo Prefectural Animal Protection Center
- Status of Killing of Lost Animals Other than Dogs and Cats by Police and Government
Series 12, Collapse of Justice
- The immediate killing of a lost dog or cat with all of its online animal information hidden is a violation of the owner’s property rights.
Series 13, Cases, Precedents, and Treatises on Human Life
- Supreme Court, Grand Bench, ruling that the former Eugenic Protection Law is unconstitutional, and claim of exclusion period is abuse of rights
- Toward a society without gambling harm, strengthening protection (caution) duty on gambling industry side
Series 14, International Consumer Issues
- Chinese Consumer Law Situation (36), The Chinese National Code and Consumer Protection
Scholars’ Eye.
- Possibility of Utilizing the Law for Prevention of Inappropriate Donation Solicitation
- The Legal Nature of the Contract for Use of the Barn and “Average Damage” Caused by Termination (2)
- Gambling Advertising and Solicitation Regulation in the Digital Age in the UK
- Is individual credit purchase brokerage a consumer credit?
- Book Introduction, Significance of “bargaining power” disparity in contracts, Implication from American unconscionability jurisprudence
Eyes of the Counselor, Activities
- The state of consumer education for young people to counterthe imposition of the use of credit cards and usury
- Unforgivable! The SNS part-time job introduction scam that creates multiple debtors
- Diverse Consumer Troubles of the Elderly
Information of Syoudanren
- Activities of National Consumers’ Organization Liaison Association 2024
Q&A
- Unauthorized Use Continues After Credit Card Suspension
Precedents and Settlement Bulletin
- No. 2629-2638
Introduction of Important Precedents
National Consumer Affairs Center Information
- Continue to be careful of refund fraud, suspect fraud if you are told “We will refund you in “XX bay”
Government-Political Parties-National Diet Members Voices
- Response under the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions in Light of Changes in Socioeconomic Conditions
- Realizing Naturally Occurring Consumer Rights
- Call for the revision of the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions Act
In Memory of Dr. Yoshio Inoue
And more
- Database of judicial precedents
- Newspaper information