@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004769, author = {施, 文華 and Shih, Wen-Hua}, journal = {国際開発研究フォーラム, Forum of International Development Studies}, month = {Sep}, note = {In the modern era of mass production, mass selling, mass consumption, and high technology, the consumer or user cannot easily judge the damage to life, body or possessions hidden in defective products. Thus, the issue of product liability is a most important issue. Because many large scale medicinal and food product accidents occurred from the 1950s through the 1970s in Japan, the question of product liability became a serious social issue. As a result, the Japanese Product Liability Law was finally passed in 1994. In Taiwan many product accidents also occurred during 1970s and up until the middle of the 1980s. Although there is no independent Product liability law as in Japan, the matter was included in the Consumer Protection Law that was also passes in 1994. In considering the differences between the Japanese PL law and the Taiwanese law ,this paper, focuses on three issues:「the scope of manufactured goods」,「the causal relationship between defect and damage 」and 「the exemption clause」The paper consider what the Taiwanese should learn form the Japanese law.}, pages = {207--233}, title = {台湾PL法の問題点と今後の課題 : 日本PL法との相違を手かがりとして}, volume = {22}, year = {2002} }