A Comparative Look at the Feasibility of Basic Income in the Japanese Welfare State
(2014) Basic Income in Japan. Prospects for a Radical Idea in a Transforming Welfare State — ISBN: [978-1-137-35657-4], p. 15-34, published
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- (en) The first section of this chapter is devoted to a general overview of the Japanese welfare system. Against this background, the second section deals with the institutional dimension of political feasibility. We focus on the achievability of BI with regard to some structural conditions, namely the main institutional features of Japan’s welfare system and their impact on poverty and inequality. In particular, we shall ask, how does the idea of a universal and unconditional cash benefit fit into the current state of social protection in Japan? At a more general level, how do the recent trends in poverty and inequality affect the chances of basic income? Taking these broad institutional conditions into account, the third section then briefly focuses on two remaining background conditions: strategic feasibility, and psychological aspects of feasibility. Our exploration of these social conditions does not allow for unfettered optimism with regard to the political prospects of BI in Japan.
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Vanderborght, Y., & Sekine, Y. (2014). A Comparative Look at the Feasibility of Basic Income in the Japanese Welfare State. In Vanderborght, Yannick & Yamamori, Toru (ed.), Basic Income in Japan. Prospects for a Radical Idea in a Transforming Welfare State (p. p. 15-34). Palgrave Macmillan. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/189028