Basic income in Japan : prospects for a radical idea in a transforming welfare state / editors, Yannick Vanderborght and Toru Yamamori.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vanderborght, Yannick.

Yamamori, Tōru, 1970-

Series:

Exploring the basic income guarantee

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Basic income--Japan.

Basic income.

Social security--Japan.

Social security.

Welfare state.

Japan.

Welfare state--Japan.

Japan--Social policy.

Social policy.

Physical Description:

xiii, 275 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Income Security and the "Right to Subsistence" in Japan / Toru Yamamori Yamamori, Toru, Yannick Vanderborght Vanderborght, Yannick 1

Section I Basic Income and the Welfare State: Past and Future

2 A Comparative Look at the Feasibility of Basic Income in the Japanese Welfare State / Yannick Vanderborght Vanderborght, Yannick, Yuki Sekine Sekine, Yuki 15

3 Transforming Japan's Bismarcldan Welfare State: Basic Income versus Inclusive Social Insurance / Takashi Suganuma Suganuma, Takashi 35

4 Is There a Future for a Universal Cash Benefit in Japan? The Case of Kodomo Teate (Child Benefit) / Aya K. Abe Abe, Aya K. 49

5 The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Basic Income / Toru Yamamori Yamamori, Toru 69

6 The Future of the Public Assistance Reform in Japan: Workfare versus Basic Income? / Hayato Kobayashi Kobayashi, Hayato 83

7 Beyond the Three Selection Principles of Welfare Policy (Work, Family, and Belonging): Toward a Reconsideration of the Fujin Hugo Jigyo (Women's Protection Project) in Japan / Kaori Katada Katada, Kaori 101

Section II Basic Income and the Labor Market: Deconstructing the Boundaries?

8 The Impact of Basic Income on the Gendered Division of Paid Care Work / Junko Yamashita Yamashita, Junko 117

9 Basic Income and Unpaid Care Work in Japan / Sakura Furukubo Furukubo, Sakura 131

10 Beyond the Paradigm of Labor: Everyday Activism and Unconditional Basic Income in Urban Japan / Juliet Obinger Obinger, Juliet 141

11 The Tensions between Multicultural ism and Basic Income in Japan / Fumio Iida Iida, Fumio 157

Section III Realizing Basic Income: The Potential of a Radical Reform

12 What Do People Think about Basic Income in Japan? / Yoshio Itaba Itaba, Yoshio 171

13 What Needs to Be Considered When Introducing a New Welfare System: Who Supports Basic Income in Japan? / Rie Takamatsu Takamatsu, Rie, Toshiaki Tachibanaki Tachibanaki, Toshiaki 197

14 The Financial Feasibility of Basic Income and the Idea of a Refundable Tax Credit in Japan / Shinji Murakami Murakami, Shinji 219

15 The Potential of Introducing Basic Income for the "New Public1' in Japan: A Road to the Associational Welfare State? / Hiroya Hirano Hirano, Hiroya 247.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137356574

113735657X

OCLC:

876140980