Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Studie ist die überblicksartige Darstellung japanischer Sozialreformen der 90er Jahre. Im Anschluss daran werden die Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede in Japan und Deutschland bei der Implementierung dreier wichtiger Teilreformen diskutiert: der Rentenreform, der...

This article is an overview of income inequality trends during the 1980s and 1990s and a discussion of their challenges to redistribution policies in Japan. The key results are summarized as follows. First, a widening disparity in market income for the working-age population has been driving...

The Japanese public long-term care insurance for the elderly is unequivocally a problem both for the health care system and as a social issue. The issues for the socially hospitalized and institutionalized are still unsolved due to a lack of family and community support. A central feature is to...

Beginning with a review of Japanese welfare state reform in 1990s, we discuss similarities and differences between Japan and Germany in the implementation of three major reforms: public pension reform, health care reform and introduction of long-term care insurance. The latest public pension...