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American Journal of Law & Medicine | 2013

Tobacco Control Lessons from the Higgs Boson: Observing A Hidden Field Behind Changing Tobacco Control Norms in Japan

Mark Levin

From a tobacco control law and policy perspective, Japan has been doing it all wrong. Or so it might seem. At the very least, tobacco control activists in Japan have had few successes obtaining the standard run of law and policy measures -- mandatory smoke-free workplace laws, substantial tax increases, effective package warning labeling, industry document disclosures, judicial awards of meaningful damages for death and disease caused by tobacco products, strict age-control enforcement, etc. Yet over the past twenty years, domestic tobacco use measured by either prevalence or consumption has plummeted while smoke-free environments, albeit often with designated smoking areas, have become amply normed. Something seems to be happening to generate good results despite only limited help from the standard tools. The obvious first question is “How did that happen?” Next must be “Is there anything we can learn from this for other settings?” While quick responses might attribute an unfathomable “Japaneseness” in the circumstances, a closer look points to more generic dynamics among the lead factors. This paper tentatively posits a set of five social and rational economic factors at play that are anything but uniquely Japanese. These suggest hopeful potentials for global tobacco control efforts. But there is no panacea here. While domestic circumstances in Japan have greatly improved, Japan Tobacco Inc. remains a powerful global industry force. Its Tokyo home-base has provided a safe territory regrettably protecting it from the degree of notoriety that counterparts Philip Morris and British American Tobacco appropriately receive. That gap, particularly with regards to Article 5.3 of the global Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, calls for action within Japan and abroad.


Archive | 2018

Considering Japanese Criminal Justice from an Original Position

Mark Levin

The criminal justice systems of the United States and Japan are both severely flawed. While some have worked hard to present these deep-seated problems to the public, the overall situation in either country is of stalled reform initiatives and ongoing injustices.


Archive | 2010

Smoke Around the Rising Sun: An American Look at Tobacco Regulation in Japan

Mark Levin


Archive | 2001

Essential Commodities and Racial Justice: Using Constitutional Protection of Japan’s Indigenous Ainu People to Inform Understandings of the United States and Japan

Mark Levin


Archive | 1999

Kayano et al. v. Hokkaido Expropriation Committee: ‘The Nibutani Dam Decision’

Mark Levin


Archive | 2016

Puffing Precedents: The Impact of the WHO FCTC on Tobacco Product Liability Litigation in Japan

Mark Levin


Hastings International and Comparative Law Review | 2013

Circumstances That Would Prejudice Impartiality: The Meaning of Fairness in Japanese Jurisprudence

Mark Levin


Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht | 2013

Truth or Consequences of the Justice System Reform Council: An English Language Bibliography from Japan's Millennial Legal Reforms

Mark Levin; Adam Mackie


Washington International Law Journal | 2010

Civil Justice and the Constitution: Limits on Instrumental Judicial Administration in Japan

Mark Levin


Washington University Global Studies Law Review | 2009

Continuities of Legal Consciousness:Professor John Haley’s Writings OnTwelve Hundred Years of JapaneseLegal History

Mark Levin

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