Trouble using the Internet is increasing with the recent spread of the smartphones and tablets. In the future, more senior high schools students are likely to suffer damage from the Internet trouble. The purpose of this study is to make research to comprehend the latest needs in order to develop consumer education materials for Internet Troubleshooting at senior high schools. The survey is across the nation for consumer center staff and home economics teachers at senior high schools. As a result of the research, the followings are a) consultation content match in recent years, b) frequency utilized materials, c) the ability to learn for senior high school students, d) effective teaching method and e) easy-to-use materials form.

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The purpose of this study is to reveal the nature of the consumer problems experienced by women's university students and to analyze how these problems, the behaviors of the consumers, and the consumers' personality traits are interrelated. This study also examines the effectiveness of the consumer education at university level, and suggests ways to improve the consumer education so as to raise students' awareness and produce consumers capable of making appropriate decisions based on their own value systems. The results are as follows : 1. Ten percent of all students surveyed experienced some sort of serious consumer problem. Cosmetic purchases and aesthetic services accounted for the largest share where dishonest business practices were involved. 2. Students' unrealistic attitudes toward purchases on credit contributed to impulse purchases. 3. Students who are not independent or reluctant to decline an offer tended to be drawn into a problematic situation at the time of signing a contract. 4. Ninety percent of respondents have been given consumer education, and of those, seventy percent stated that they were given consumer education at their high school home economic class. 5. Many of those who were given consumer education in university demonstrated greater understanding of what could lead to serious consumer problems.

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This research aims to examine factors that influence junior high school students’ awareness of e-money to advance financial and economic education in the cashless era. The author analyzed questionnaire responses and interviewed teachers. Positive factors that influenced students’ desire to use e-money were knowledge of consumer life, and experience of success and failure. Negative factors were the fact that their experience managing money was predominantly through cash, and exposure to information on the disadvantages of e-money. The author found that, to ensure students learn the advantages and challenges of using e-money, it may be effective to extend information on e-money across subjects and areas based on the popularity of e-money in each region, and provide necessary information to students’ families.

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