The ABCs of Product Safety Re-regulation in Japan
Asbestos, Buildings, Consumer Electrical Goods, and Schindler’s Lifts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14970960 |
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| Authors | Luke Nottage (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 242-286 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Griffith Law Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1038-3441 • E-ISSN: 1839-4205 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10383441.2006.10854574 |
| OpenAlex | W3124748261 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
Australia is considering a full-scale Free Trade Agreement with Japan. This gives added importance to the trajectory of Japanese product safety regulations, and consumer law more generally. Generally, Japan has been dismantling ex ante regulation while strengthening private liability regimes, especially information disclosure obligations, over its 'lost decade' of economic stagnation since the early 1990s. Yet it has also re-regulated more broadly in response to safety concerns, as evidenced by four recent case studies involving asbestos (for the third time), buildings, electrical goods, and elevators manufactured by a market leader worldwide. This makes Japan converge on a broader pattern identified within 'global business regulation', and makes it likely that the nation (like Australia) will revamp general consumer product regulation along recently revised European Union lines. Yet Japan's regulatory mix still diverges from that in several other industrialised democracies, particularly in the prominent roles played by criminal prosecutions and the spectre of state liability
Business · Economics · European union · Ex-ante · International trade · Law and economics · Liability · Market economy · Political science · Product (mathematics · Product liability · State (computer science · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Regulation and Compliance Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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