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Because the pursuit of equity is an important theme, social security is a field in which law and economics have a high affinity. Based on the principles of Article 25 of the Constitution of Japan on the provisions of the right to life, the legal approach to social security considers the way that the system should be set up so that it is accurate and fair, or just, even if the implementation of fairness is imperfect, and it still conforms to the other constitutional provisions.
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Taken from Inoue I (2010) Hon’yaku no hanashi (On Translation). In: Takahashi R et al. (eds) Tōkyō sōgensha bunko kaisetsu sōmokuroku: shiryō hen. Tokyo Sogensha, Tokyo, pp 226–228 (original text appeared in 1958).
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Ibid.
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Taken from Nakamura J (1989) “Saiban” ni tsuite kangaeru (Thinking about “adjudication”). In: Nakamura J, Saiban no sekai wo ikite. Hanrei Taimuzusha, Tokyo, pp 397–432 (original text appeared in 1984).
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Sekine, Y., Oshio, T. (2021). Equity and Efficiency in the Safety Net: Social Security Law. In: Yanagawa, T., Takahashi, H., Ouchi, S. (eds) Econo-Legal Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5145-8_6
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