Poverty and social welfare in Japan / Masami Iwata and Akihiko Nishizawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iwata, Masami, 1947-

Contributor:

Nishizawa, Akihiko, 1963-

Series:

Japanese society series

Japanese society series, 1443-9670

Standardized Title:

Hinkon to shakaiteki haijo. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Japan.

Poverty.

Public welfare--Japan.

Public welfare.

Japan.

Japan--Social conditions--1945-.

Social conditions.

Armut.

Sozialhilfe.

Sozialpolitik.

Local Subjects:

Armut.

Japan.

Sozialhilfe.

Sozialpolitik.

Physical Description:

xiii, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Melbourne : Trans Pacific Press ; Portland, Or. : Distributors, USA and Canada International Specialized Book Services, 2008.

Summary:

Poverty in Japan has been concealed in the chorus of admiration recognizing the nation becoming the world's second largest economy in the latter half of the twentieth century. This collection of papers by ten specialists in poverty research unravels the ways in which the poor have been socially excluded in contemporary Japan and how this reality derives from the structure of inequality in social resources, life chances and power relations. These studies scrutinize the extent to which Japan's welfare policies have disseminated and consolidated particular types of understanding about poverty. The book reveals their contradictions by highlighting the lives of the homeless, new-comer foreign migrants, residents in poor housing and many other socially excluded groups.

Contents:

Policies and poverty : poverty as a welfare policy bracket in post-war Japan and its meaning / Masami Iwata

Poverty as a result of exclusion : Tokyo's urban underclass / Akihiko Nishizawa

The distribution and dynamics of poverty looked at according to income / Chizuka Hamamoto

Older women and housing poverty : their housing history in home-owning society / Misa Izuhara

The interconnection between health and poverty : health and socio-economic well-being / Yuko Hayasaka

The spatial spread of poverty in the megalopolis and the state of segregation,1975-2000 / Keiko Yamaguchi

Does the hi hogo class represent poor people in general / Masami Iwata

Women, welfare policies and poverty : poverty and shelter among homeless women / Keiko Kawahara

Poverty and the social exclusion of single men : perspectives on homeless men and their relationship with the welfare administration / Yukihiko Kitagawa

Poverty and exclusion as it affects migrant workers from overseas : in terms of employment, housing and consumption / Kahoruko Yamamoto

A jail without bars, the social world of the street dwellers / Akihiko Nishizawa

Improving poverty stricken areas : a rehabilitation project for Shima Danchi public housing / Yosuke Hirayama.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-318) and index.

ISBN:

9781876843816

1876843810

9781876843878

187684387X

OCLC:

229308988