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

In: Basic Income in Japan

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  • Hiroya Hirano

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The importance of social inclusion has been widely recognized and hotly debated in Japan since the 2000s, as issues like poverty and social exclusion have grown more serious. As far as poverty itself is concerned, Japan faces a more severe challenge than ever, as the latest statistics show that the number of social assistance recipients amounts to more than 2.15 million, an absolute record.1 The scope of social exclusion, often described as “an absence of participation in society” (Iwata 2008) and obviously related to the growth of poverty, forces us to tackle the question of how one can find a place of one’s own in a modern society where social relations have weakened, and people tend to grow apart. This explains why discussions about the “public sphere” or the “civil society” have recently been developing in Japan.

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  • Hiroya Hirano, 2014. "The Potential of Introducing Basic Income for the “New Public” in Japan: A Road to the Associational Welfare State?," Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, in: Yannick Vanderborght & Toru Yamamori (ed.), Basic Income in Japan, chapter 0, pages 247-261, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:etbchp:978-1-137-34808-1_15
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137348081_15
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