Consumer Affairs Agency launched amid doubts over personnel changes

TOKYO, Japan - Consumer affairs minister Seiko Noda (L) and Shunichi Uchida, chief of the newly established Consumer Affairs Agency, are photographed alongside a name board for the agency during an inaugural ceremony in Tokyo on Sept. 1. The government agency aimed at better protecting consumers was launched the same day, marking the first establishment of a new administrative organ since the 1971 creation of the Environment Agency.

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