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...

Tobacco policy initiatives in Japan run in opposing directions. One stronger line is represented by industrial policy promoted established by law and overseen by the nation’s Ministry of Finance. A weaker line, lacking vigorous statutory underpinnings, emerges through administrative tobacco...

Confidential documents which became public through civil litigation discovery in the late 1990s reveal that, ten years after the Watergate and Lockheed scandals and just five years after the enactment of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the senior-most executives of the Brown and...