Journal of Japan Academy of Consumer Education

The aim of this paper is to examine passengers’ self-responsibility in flight safety from the point of seat belt use. There is the possibility that airplanes encounter turbulence during flight. The seat belt is only safety measure passengers can take to possibly save themselves from injury or death in turbulence. However, passengers do not necessarily understand the risks of not wearing a seat belt. Popularization of information with regard to turbulence and turbulence accidents is imperative. The government, airline companies, mass media, tourism industry and consumer education cooperate and need to work on it.

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The purpose of this study is to identify the desired countermeasures against the consumer problems of cellular phones from the standpoints of consumer protection and the individual consumer responsibility establishment. Causes and circumstances of the consumer problems and the existing countermeasures are investigated. Consumer problems have been increased and diversified with the expansion of market. Especially consumer contracts have become complicated for the sales promotion incentives. Existing countermeasures are effective because of consumer protection. However, four desired countermeasures are identified: 1.Rationalize consumer transactions especially consumer contracts. 2.Provide consumers sufficient information. 3.Improve organization to address consumer complaints. 4.Improve structure to promote consumer education. The consumer education is effective for consumer protection and awareness of consumer responsibility, and important to transform current countermeasures into new countermeasures. The causes and circumstances of the problems and the countermeasures described herein will give suggestions as to the promotion of consumer education.

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The aim of this paper was to consider the contents and the characteristics of the ability to make effective decisions which are needed to improve in consumer education, and the effects on the results of making paticular decisions in particular consumer decision making circumstances. Using a scale to measure decision making skill, I examined (1) the relationship of individual decision making skills to decisional self esteem, decisional stress, individual orientedness, and social orientedness, and (2) the relationship of individual decision making skills to self-acceptance about her way of life whether or not she feels regret for being coerced into a particular way of life. The findings were as follows : (1) When the score of decision making skills was high, the score of decisional self esteem was high, the score of decisional stress was low, and the score of individual orientation and social orientation were high. (2) When the score of decision making skills was high, the score of self acceptance was high, and the score of feeling no regret was high. The results showed that individual decision making skills have the characteristics to relate with one’s psychological state, and the degree of individual decision making skills also have an effect on self acceptance and feeling of regret for choices in the life cource. It was discussed that these approaches could contribute to prove the efficacy of decision making education.

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Advocacy in the NPO aector, especially messages from environmental NGO/ NPO are very important to construct a sustainable society. Such advocacy is interdisciplinary, diffusive and sub dividable. We are able to integrate these advocacy positons into consumer education with media literacy, which coordinated with local the NGO/NPO. the purpose of this study is to prove this possibility, from the case of the wetlands in the Nagoya city bay front, FUJIMAE, which have unionized with the two factors of preservation of wetland (enviromental politics) and reduction of garbage waste.

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