Basic Income in Japan is the first collective volume in English entirely devoted to the discussion of Japan's potential for a basic income program in the context of the country's changing welfare state. Vanderborght and Yamamori bring together over a dozen contributors to provide a general overview of the scholarly debate on universal and unconditional basic income, including a foreword by Ronald Dore. Drawing on empirical data on poverty and inequality as well as normative arguments, this balanced approach to a radical idea is essential reading for the study of contemporary Japan.

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Aya K. Abe, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan Ronald Dore, London School of Economics, UK Sakura Furukubo, Osaka City University, Japan Hiroya Hirano, Mejiro University, Japan Fumio Iida, Kobe University, Japan Yoshio Itaba , Doshisha University, Japan Kaori Katada, Hosei University, Japan Hayato Kobayashi, Nihon Fukushi University, Japan Shinji Murakami, Health Care Science Institute, Japan Julia Obinger, University of Zurich, Switzerland Yuki Sekine, Kobe University, Japan Takashi Suganuma, Rikkyo University, Japan Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Doshisha University, Japan Rie Takamatsu, Osaka University, Japan Yannick Vanderborght, Université Saint-Louis Brussels, Belgium Toru Yamamori, Doshisha University, Japan Junko Yamashita, University of Bristol, UK

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Book Title: Basic Income in Japan
Book Subtitle: Prospects for a Radical Idea in a Transforming Welfare State
Editors: Yannick Vanderborght, Toru Yamamori
Series Title: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137348081
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Yannick Vanderborght and Toru Yamamori 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-35657-4Published: 09 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-47052-5Published: 09 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-34808-1Published: 09 October 2014
Series ISSN: 2662-3803
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3811
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 275
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Development Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Politics of the Welfare State

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Introduction: Income Security and the “Right to Subsistence” in Japan

Introduction: Income Security and the “Right to Subsistence” in Japan

Basic Income and the Welfare State: Past and Future

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A Comparative Look at the Feasibility of Basic Income in the Japanese Welfare State

Transforming Japan’s Bismarckian Welfare State: Basic Income versus Inclusive Social Insurance

Is There a Future for a Universal Cash Benefit in Japan? The Case of Kodomo Teate (Child Benefit)

The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Basic Income

The Future of the Public Assistance Reform in Japan: Workfare versus Basic Income?

Beyond the Three Selection Principles of Welfare Policy (Work, Family, and Belonging): Toward a Reconsideration of the Fujin Hogo Jigyo (Women’s Protection Project) in Japan

Basic Income and the Labor Market: Deconstructing the Boundaries?

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The Impact of Basic Income on the Gendered Division of Paid Care Work

Basic Income and Unpaid Care Work in Japan

Beyond the Paradigm of Labor: Everyday Activism and Unconditional Basic Income in Urban Japan

The Tensions between Multiculturalism and Basic Income in Japan

Realizing Basic Income: The Potential of a Radical Reform

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What Do People Think about Basic Income in Japan?

What Needs to Be Considered When Introducing a New Welfare System: Who Supports Basic Income in Japan?

The Financial Feasibility of Basic Income and the Idea of a Refundable Tax Credit in Japan

The Potential of Introducing Basic Income for the “New Public” in Japan: A Road to the Associational Welfare State?

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Introduction: Income Security and the “Right to Subsistence” in Japan

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Basic Income and the Labor Market: Deconstructing the Boundaries?

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Realizing Basic Income: The Potential of a Radical Reform

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