A study on the history of social management system for techrlology risks

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This study aims; to describe historical development process of social management systems of technology risk through international comparison between Japan and selected Western countries; to draw commonalities and differences; and to describe dynamic mutual interactions between regulatory environment and innovation. The form of regulations varies depending on socio-economic system of the country. The form of regulations in Japan after the Meiji Restoration was extremely dependent on government control. In this study author classifies safety regulations into four categories, sanctions and liability compensation laws, government regulations, self-regulatory system of insurance and third party inspection, market mechanism. These framework of analysis gives us an insight about how we should learn lessons and how we should design social environment for safety regulations in future.