摘要：National tobacco policy in Japan runs along a strong line of legislatively established industrial policy promoted primarily through Japan's Ministry of Finance and a weaker line of mostly administrative tobacco control policy promoted primarily by its Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Ministry of Health). This chapter first looks at the two vectors in a historical overview of an unbalanced tug-of-war, and then considers the future of tobacco policy in Japan with reference to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (hereafter FCTC).
