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The aims of this chapter are twofold. It will first outline developments in the social policy field in Japan up to the early 1970s. It will then look in some detail at the arguments after that time on two issues: medical care for the aged and the reform of the pensions system, finally reviewing briefly the situation as it existed in those areas in 1985.1
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Social Security Mission to Japan, Report of the Social Security Mission to Japan (Washington, DC: Department of the Army, July 1948).
W. E. Steslicke, Doctors in Politics (New York: Praeger, 1973) contains a detailed account of the events of this period, and a study of the role of the Japan Medical Association as a political pressure group.
Asahi Shinbunsha (ed.), Asahi Nenkan (Asahi Shinbunsha, 1974) pp. 283, 533.
This issue is treated in some detail in John C. Campbell, ‘The Old People Boom and Japanese Policy Making’, Journal of Japanese Studies vol. 5, no. 2 (Summer 1979), pp. 321–35.
Yoshida, op. cit., pp. 141, 152–3. See also the arguments over factory legislation cited in Byron K. Marshall, Capitalism and Nationalism in Prewar Japan: The Ideology of a Business Elite (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1967) pp. 51–93.
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Collick, M. (1988). Social Policy: Pressures and Responses. In: Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan. St Antony’s/Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10297-6_8
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