Basic Income in Japan

Foreword; Ronald Dore 1. Income Security and the 'Right to Subsistence' in Japan; Toru Yamamori and Yannick Vanderborght 2. A Comparative Look at the Feasibility of Basic Income in the Japanese Welfare State; Yannick Vanderborght and Yuki Sekine 3. Transforming Japan's Bismarckian Welfare State: Basic Income versus Inclusive Social Insurance; Takashi Suganuma 4. Is There a Future for a Universal Cash Benefit in Japan? The Case of Kodomo Teate (Child Benefit); Aya K. Abe 5. The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Basic Income; Toru Yamamori 6. The Future of the Public Assistance Reform in Japan: Workfare versus Basic Income?; Hayato Kobayashi 7. Beyond the Three Selection Principles of Welfare Policy (Work, Family and Belonging): Towards a Reconsideration of the Fujin Hogo Jigyo (Women's Protection Project) in Japan; Kaori Katada 8. The Impact of Basic Income on the Gendered Division of Paid Care Work; Junko Yamashita 9. Basic Income and Unpaid Care Work in Japan; Sakura Furukubo 10. Beyond the Paradigm of Labor: Everyday Activism and Unconditional Basic Income in Urban Japan; Julia Obinger 11. The Tensions between Multiculturalism and Basic Income in Japan; Fumio Iida 12. What Do People Think about Basic Income in Japan?; Yoshio Itaba 13. What Needs to Be Considered When Introducing a New Welfare System: Who Supports Basic Income in Japan?; Rie Takamatsu and Toshiaki Tachibanaki 14. The Financial Feasibility of Basic Income and the Idea of a Refundable Tax Credit in Japan; Shinji Murakami 15. The Potential of Introducing Basic Income for the 'New Public' in Japan: A Road to Associational Welfare?; Hiroya Hirano