Abstract
This paper attempted to identify the current conditions and problems underlying consumer education plans organized by consumer policy divisions of all national prefectures in Japan. Three components, (1) budgets, (2) the number of projects and (3) the recent conditions of programs to be offered, were investigated according to four groups of division classified by the size of population. The results showed that the gaps among these components were not as large as the differences of populations. On the whole, it can be said that this occurs because the functions of municipalities contained in smaller prefectures are relatively high.
