To help us better understand how to effectively teach consumer education, we set up four areas of　consumer citizenship education: 1)Safety, 2)Contract, Transaction & Household Finances, 3)Living Information, and 4)Environmental Responsibility & Ethics. We conducted a questionnaire survey of university students' consumer literacy regarding dietary habits that focused on these four areas. The survey found that gender and family situation influence accomplishment probability of areas on consumption behavior regarding dietary habits. We discuss how to train the ability of consumer life systematically in school.

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This paper explores the relationship between & quot; independence of consumer& quot; and " self-responsibility& quot; as affected by the transition in Japanese consumer policy. This policy forces consumers to survive in the market as independent entities responsible for themselves.

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This paper studies business sector challenges regarding consumer education by examining quadrennial customer complaint surveys conducted by The Association of Consumer Affairs Professionals. This study found that as goods and services have become more advanced in the past 10 years, their increased complexity and diversity have resulted in increased consumer complaints, despite business's attempts to improve customer relations. The paper concludes that as society and consumer attitudes have changed, the business sector, the government, and educational institutions must focus more on understanding and educating the consumer.

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This study finds that the most important challenges in teaching consumer education are to ensure that teachers of home economics and social studies have practical examples of the latest specialized information. Moreover, the study suggests ways that elementary schoolteachers can increase their focus their focus on consumer education.

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This study examined how a prefecture, a city, and two towns adopted partnership plans to help solve their debt problems. The greater the scale of autonomy for an entity, such as a prefecture, the easier it is to establish a partnership, while small-scale autonomous bodies, such as communes, need greater efforts because of their relative lack of resources.

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This paper's purposes are twofold: to clarify and outline New Nordic consumer education, and to compare new and old action programs. Five separate items are detailed, and three important points are stressed.

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This study identifies the consumer-education materials that teachers consider to be of high quality. It concludes that providing the most current information and allowing for student input should be a high priority for material development. Faculty members who teach fewer classes on consumer education reported that using a worksheet as well as printed or audio-visual materials provided benefits.

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People with mild intellectual disabilities have a tendency to get in financial trouble, since it is hard for others to recognize their conditions and they give an impression of having a higher ability than they actually possess when they converse with others. The authors examined and performed a support program for students at a special needs education school and people with mild intellectual disabilities who work in companies to learn family financial management skills. By interviewing teachers, family members and supporters, it was reaffirmed that any future research in consumer education needs not only to find a way to foster a self-defense capability to prevent consumer problems, but also to obtain the skills to live with the support system.

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Using an ordered probit model, this paper analyzes factors that influence consumer attitudes toward additives in food products. It concludes that more-informed consumers, using information provided by newspapers, magazines, websites, schools, and food departments tend to avoid additives, although not all of the information that influences consumers is accurate. Therefore, scientifically accurate information needs to be popularized.

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This paper finds that fair-trade retail outlets would benefit from cooperating with formal and informal programs that educate consumers about social responsibility.

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This paper analyzes Amish school arithmetic textbooks, roughly 60 percent of which include simple calculation problems based on human development within a narrow environment, while the rest of the problems address wider environments, such as American society at large. Through repetitively applying four fundamental rules of arithmetic to daily life, Amish pupils'capacity for consumer education is increased, offering a model for consumer education in a modem society.

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This paper reports the results of a survey of beverage consumption of female high-school students in eight Japanese regions. The criteria determining the girl's beverage choices varied depending on location, time, body condition, situation, and environment. For example, the most popular early-summer beverages were barley tea, water, and juice, while girls who ate western-style food frequently consumed milk. The paper concludes that more food education is needed.

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This study investigates into consumer injury in financial service in Korea and Japan and current state of their ADR(Alternative Dispute Resolution) system and seeks to its improvement. In Korea, administrative ADR centered on government agencies has a great role in the system. However, comprehensive legal regulations are necessary to protect consumers in financial service and self-regulatory relief system by financial industry is also required to be vitalized. On the other hand, Japan needs more specific assessment and supervision to settle disputes among industry organizations and an administrative role is required to support those settlements. In addition, consumer class action should be actively promoted with the vitalization of dispute settlement function to develop consumer injury relief system in financial service.

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This paper examines the problems of refugees in an increasingly aging society, in three localities, through the perspective of the chisan chisho (local food) movement, and how new public systems, including mobile markets, can respond to the refugees’ social needs as well as help educate consumers in general.

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This study shows that improved medical treatment depends on three essential elements related to consumer education: 1) doctors working with patients, 2) patients taking an active role in their treatment, and 3) doctors understanding consumer-education related aspects of healthcare. In a climate of increased malpractice, negligence, and lawsuits arising from substandard care, doctors must recognize the common humanity they share with patients. To achieve these goals, the author proposes an academic course of study in consumer healthcare education.

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This paper examines effective strategies to pursue in the initial interview of over-indebted debtor clients to help them receive effective support towards rebuilding their lives. This paper finds that in order to effectively support these clients, several methods are necessary. Firstly, ascertaining the client's principal request and interview conduction with the client's consensus is required so as to promote independent decision-making by the client. Additionally, the encouragement of a positive attitude towards obstacles encountered by the client, as well as the pointing out of client achievements made is also paramount in order to create an action-focused mentality towards overcoming the client's obstacles.

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To determine how to educate consumers effectively, consumer-education evaluation methods must be examined. However, there is a dearth of research on this subject. This study finds quantitative and qualitative results through real-life student-performance assessments.

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This study focuses on a 45-minute lesson in food education for elementary and junior-high school students and others that demonstrates that their consumer behavior can be improved by getting them to acknowledge their lack of food self-sufficiency, presenting them with solutions, and giving them a quiz that introduces them to local food producers.

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This study is examined how elementary school consumer education was taught in1998 and 2008, focusing on four consumer rights: the right of safety, the right to know, the right to choose, and the right to hear.

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In light of the need for increased consumer citizenship in Japan to improve our citizens’ quality of life, this study compares the European Union’s Europa Diary, an educational tool for students age13-18, with Japan’s Course of Study in Upper Secondary School for social studies and home economics. It finds that the Europa Diary strongly emphasizes consumer rights in terms of citizenship, including the right to eat and the right to a smoke-free environment, whereas Japanese guidelines stress rights and responsibilities in the context of the Japanese Constitution and the Consumer Basic Act. The study concludes that international trends toward consumer rights and behavior should be incorporated in consumer education in Japan.

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This study examines how creating manuals for making pincushions, as well as making the pincushions themselves, can interest elementary school homemaking students in consumer safety and reliability.

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The recent economic deterioration of Japan has intensified discussion of the social safety net, resulting in a revision of the Living and Welfare Fund Loan System (LWFLS) and an expansion of the Public Assistance System to allow for the greater needs required by the increase in the low-income population. However, due to this increased demand, the LWFLS is on the verge of collapse; consequently, it has become more difficult to provide sufficient social welfare support to those in need. Therefore, local community social welfare programs should serve as a model for a more inclusive and continuous social support system, and consumers need to be educated regarding the need for such support as well as to be apprised of the support that is available.

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