Issue 141, October 2024

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]

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