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.
Author Biography:
Aya K. Abe, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan
Ronald Dore, London School of Economics, UK
Sakura Furukubo, Osaka City University, Japan
Hiroya Hirano, Mejiro University, Japan
Fumio Iida, Kobe University, Japan
Yoshio Itaba , Doshisha University, Japan
Kaori Katada, Hosei University, Japan
Hayato Kobayashi, Nihon Fukushi University, Japan
Shinji Murakami, Health Care Science Institute, Japan
Julia Obinger, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Yuki Sekine, Kobe University, Japan
Takashi Suganuma, Rikkyo University, Japan
Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Doshisha University, Japan
Rie Takamatsu, Osaka University, Japan
Yannick Vanderborght, Université Saint-Louis Brussels, Belgium
Toru Yamamori, Doshisha University, Japan
Junko Yamashita, University of Bristol, UK