Violation of “the Right to continue to live”, Need for Law Reform
<Documentation> Resolution Calling for the Amendment of the Land and Housing Tenancy Law to Guarantee the Right to Continue to Live
Special Feature 2, Towards Amending the Law Against Unjustifiable Premium and Misleading Representation.
Outline of the Report of the Study Group on the Law Against Unjusti ed Premiums and Misleading Representations and Future Amendments to the Law
Towards the amendment of the law against unfair premiums and misleading representations
Special Feature 3, Consumer Damage by SNS/SMS.
Through the eyes of an advisor
Why aren’t they going down? The problems of “subscription purchases”
Consumer Education for Digitalisation from the Perspective of a Consumer Consultation Service
Towards a safe and secure environment for SNS use
Series 1, Consumer Legislation, Consumer Affairs Agency, Consumer Commission, National Consumer Affairs Centre, Legislative Recommendations.
Report of the Consumer Commission, Cabinet Office
Response of the Consumer Commission to the conversion to electronic form of Contract Documents based on the Specified Commercial Transactions Act
Cross-Sectoral Administrative Rules on Consumer Transactions, Comprehensive Provisions on Unfair Transactions (Receiving Provisions) and Listing
Report on the Formation of a National Liaison Group for the Fundamental Revision of the Special Commercial Code
Towards the Amendment of the Law on Sales and Specified Commercial Transactions Related to “CURECHIHO in Shimane”
Problems and Images of the Amendment of the Law on Specified Commercial Transactions
Opinion of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, Proposal on the Status of Multilevel Marketing Transactions (2022 edition) published
Series 2, Loan Shark, Commercial and Industrial Loans.
Current status of court cases concerning business factoring.
Issues of disguised loans and business forms, disguised pawnbrokers, salary factoring, post-payment cash advances
Appropriation of the portion in excess of the Civil Code and the Interest Limitation Law
Strengthening Japan’s democratic movement (34), Exposing the Crimes abused by state poweauthorities (1)
Series 3, Poverty Alleviation and Rehabilitation.
Court decision overturning withdrawal of public assistance for violation of guidelines and instructions due to undeclared income of household members
Prevailing settlement reached, including settlement payments; Violation of the right to life through erroneous income recognition in welfare
Can a ‘rainbow of beauty’ spread across the sea? 15th Report of the National Institute of Social Welfare, I. Denying the Falsification of Prices
Examples of Measures Against Arrears
‘INOCH NO TORIDE’ Litigation Hyogo Lawyers’ Group and Eugenics Protection Law State Compensation Claim Hyogo Lawyers’ Group
Joint Symposium of Plaintiffs and Defence Counsels in Eugenics Protection Law Litigation and Lowering the Standard of Living Litigation
From Corona Response to Universal Livelihood Support, Where Should Japan’s Social Security Go
Where Should Japan’s Social Security Go? From “Corona Disaster” Response to Universal Livelihood Assistance
Strengthening social security instead of military expansion
The “New Capitalism” Theory and the Kishida Cabinet
Series 4, “Special Commercial Law, Deposit Insurance Law and Discount Sales”.
Report on a court decision allowing a cooling-off period for credit contracts related to door-to-door sales of learning materials
Progress report on the proposed sale of educational materials with study guidance and the Winn Education Centre/Nake bankruptcy case
Series 5, Consumer Contract Law and Unfair Business Practices.
Damage caused by the over-selling of kimonos, a traditional Japanese costume, Osaka City’s efforts to ‘KIMONO SHORAKU’
Revision of the Akita City Consumer Affairs Ordinance “Improper Trade Practices” (Notification)
KCs’ Investigation Activities Regarding KIRIN Co., Ltd.’s “Tropicana Melon Taste” Labelling, Kansai KCs Consumer Support Organisation
Inquiry and response to a tutor dispatch service provider
Request for improvement of non-refundable tuition fee clause at driving schools
Application to TAMENY Corporation
2022 Kyoto Consumer Issues Seminar held
Issue advertisements, long-term debt fractionalisation and non-partnership issues
Series 6, Banking, Securities, Insurance and Futures
Tokyo District Court judgment of 16 March 2022 against Daiwa Securities
Akita Conference of the National Study Group on Futures Trading Damage
Series 7, PL
Accident in which a hospital patient was injured due to negligence in confirming the setting of a serial alarm, Tokyo District Court Decision 4 June 2020
Series 8, Defective Housing
Rain Leakage Settlement Case, Case of Cancellation of Sales Contract due to Rain Leakage of Second-hand Property
What consumer groups are doing in the global food crisis
Current status and challenges, advantages and unexpected disadvantages revealed by the CORONA disaster
FoodTech: The practical application of cell-cultured meat
Series 10, E-commerce.
Travel rules for crypto assets and amendments to the law on prevention of transfer of criminal proceeds
Serialisation, Personal Information and the Law, (1) General Introduction
Series 11, Religion.
Issues in the Law for the Prevention of Unwarranted Solicitation of Contributions
The DAINICHZAN HOKEKYO-JI Temple Dissolution Case
Series 12, Pets and animal law
Documentation of the Director of the Miki Branch Office of the Hyogo Prefectural Animal Protection Centre for the wanton killing of lost animals, in violation of the Animal Protection Law
Series 13, Cases, Precedents and Discussions on Life
Lawsuit seeking an injunction against the conclusion of an Osaka 1R business land lease agreement
Commercialisation of housing and safety net
Recent Developments in Linear Shinkansen and Hokuriku Shinkansen
Series 14, International Consumer Issues
Consumer Law Situation in China (32), Adoption and Enforcement of the Futures and Financial Derivatives Law
Scholarly Eye.
Possible expansion of the injunction system for unfair terms
Trends in German Consumer Protection Legislation on Continuous Contracts
Counsellor’s Eyes/Activities
Consumers and digital platforms
Consumer Adviser Qualification for University Students
Q and A
Internet banking precautions
Precedents and Settlement Bulletin
No. 2560~2571
Important precedents
Statute of Limitations for Demand for Payment with Provisional Enforcement Award is not Statute of Limitations for Judgment
Welfare, support inquiries, state compensation claims, alimony
“GALLIVER” investment damage case
Act on Specified Commercial Transactions
case in which a leasing company’s lease paymentsunder a bad lease agreement were reduced by 30 percent on the grounds of good faith
transactions similar to virtual currency
injunction against unfair clauses in subdivisionmanagement contracts
Administrative proceedings
Neutral case of DAINICHIZAN HOEKYO-JIdissolution order
Neutral case of DAINICHIZAN HOEKYO-JIdissolution order
Information from the National Consumer Affairs Centre
Problems in consumer affairs (50)
Bibliography
Consumer Affairs and CSR/Corporate Ethics in Japan
