Health Insurance Politics in Japan -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on the Text -- Introduction: To Understand the Health Insurance Policy Development in Japan -- 1. Westernizing Medicine -- 2. Reacting to Deteriorating Health -- 3. Improving People's Health for...

Westernizing medicine -- Reacting to deteriorating health -- Improving people's health for war -- Reforming health care with the United States -- Achieving universal health insurance -- Consolidating universal health insurance -- Making universal health insurance survive -- Japanese health care...

When the Japanese government adopted Western medicine in the late nineteenth century, it left intact the infrastructure of primary care by giving licenses to the existing practitioners and by initially setting the hurdle for entry into medical school low. Public financing of hospitals was kept...

This is a brief interim report of my ongoing research, the purpose of which is to analyze healthcare reform under the new Japanese government from a comparative perspective. Today, like many developed nations in the world, Japan is facing a variety of serious healthcare problems in the face of...