Basic Income in Japan

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

Chapter 2 A Comparative Look at the Feasibility of Basic Income in the Japanese Welfare State

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

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

Chapter 5 The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Basic Income

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

Chapter 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

Chapter 8 The Impact of Basic Income on the Gendered Division of Paid Care Work

Chapter 9 Basic Income and Unpaid Care Work in Japan

Chapter 10 Beyond the Paradigm of Labor: Everyday Activism and Unconditional Basic Income in Urban Japan

Chapter 11 The Tensions between Multiculturalism and Basic Income in Japan

Chapter 12 What Do People Think about Basic Income in Japan?

Chapter 13 What Needs to Be Considered When Introducing a New Welfare System: Who Supports Basic Income in Japan?

Chapter 14 The Financial Feasibility of Basic Income and the Idea of a Refundable Tax Credit in Japan

Chapter 15 The Potential of Introducing Basic Income for the “New Public” in Japan: A Road to the Associational Welfare State?