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Basic Income in Japan

Prospects for a Radical Idea in a Transforming Welfare State

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Editors:
  1. Yannick Vanderborght
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  2. Toru Yamamori
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Part of the book series: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee (BIG)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Income Security and the “Right to Subsistence” in Japan

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

      • Toru Yamamori, Yannick Vanderborght
      Pages 1-11

  3. Basic Income and the Welfare State: Past and Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. A Comparative Look at the Feasibility of Basic Income in the Japanese Welfare State

      • Yannick Vanderborght, Yuki Sekine
      Pages 15-34

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

      • Takashi Suganuma
      Pages 35-48

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

      • Aya K. Abe
      Pages 49-67

    5. The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Basic Income

      • Toru Yamamori
      Pages 69-81

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

      • Hayato Kobayashi
      Pages 83-99

    7. 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

      • Kaori Katada
      Pages 101-114

  4. Basic Income and the Labor Market: Deconstructing the Boundaries?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    2. The Impact of Basic Income on the Gendered Division of Paid Care Work

      • Junko Yamashita
      Pages 117-130

    3. Basic Income and Unpaid Care Work in Japan

      • Sakura Furukubo
      Pages 131-139

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

      • Julia Obinger
      Pages 141-155

    5. The Tensions between Multiculturalism and Basic Income in Japan

      • Fumio Iida
      Pages 157-168

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 263-275
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About this book

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.

About the authors

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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