Japan’s first post war labor law, the Trade Union Law of 1945, established a national Labor Relations Commission to oversee labor disputes and ensure that both management and unions followed the law. The Commission had representatives from labor, management, and the general public. It was modeled partly on a similar three-part Commission used by the International Labor Organization (ILO) and a one established in the United States to manage labor disputes during wartime. The second of Japan’s basic postwar labor union laws, the Labor Relations Adjustment Act of 1946, was modeled after the American Taft-Hartley Act, which provided ways for government to intervene in labor disputes that might paralyze essential public services. When electrical utility workers in Japan threatened a national strike in the fall of 1946, the new law allowed the government to require a 30 day “cooling off period” before the strike could begin. This provision is rarely used anymore.