Abstract
The Food Safety Commission launched on 1 July 2003 has opened new era of Japanese food safety policy. Among other things, the Commission is remarkable by promoting risk communication that never existed in the conventional administration. This paper firstly draws attention to the presence of dis-communication between consumer and government/expertise under the name of risk communication. Secondly, it suggests that the dis-communication is derived from risk communication activity in which government/expertise put priority to enlightening consumers rather than facing the consumer's historically accumulated distrust to them. In conclusion, it is proposed that history of Japanese food policy after 1945 should be compiled under the leadership of the Food Safety Commission.
