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As researchers into the family sociology and political history of Japan, we feel uneasy whenever we come across a description that lumps together the welfare states of East Asia as ‘Confucian welfare states’. It is a common understanding in Japanese academia that the penetration of Confucianism into traditional Japanese society was shallow, compared with other countries of East Asia.
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Ochiai, E., Johshita, K. (2014). Prime Ministers’ Discourse in Japan’s Reforms since the 1980s: Traditionalization of Modernity rather than Confucianism. In: Sung, S., Pascall, G. (eds) Gender and Welfare States in East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137314796_8
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