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Japanese Modernity and Welfare

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230287143

ISBN: 978-1-349-51226-3

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 24, 2015

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Introduction: Civil Society, Welfare, and Japan in Comparative Studies

Vij, Ritu

Pages: 1 –32

[In a curious reversal of orientalizing proclivities, Japan’s productivist social policy has become emblematic of an emerging orthodoxy in the West. At a time when the turn from welfare to philanthropy, “community,” or “work-fare,” symptomatic of the erosion of social rights and citizenship on...
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Theoretical Contestations: State, Market, and the Individual

Vij, Ritu

Pages: 33 –74

[How do states and markets contribute to individual well-being? Are individuals better off when markets are left untrammeled? Or does placing limits on the market better enable individuals to pursue their own ends? If so, by what criteria should states and markets be limited? Dominant thinking,...
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Self, State, and Civil Society in Modern Japan

Vij, Ritu

Pages: 75 –106

[With the publication of Maruyama Masao’s celebrated work on the absence of individuation in Japan, the question of the “individual” and Japan’s modernity moved from traditional anthropological treatment to the domain of Cultural Studies. From modernization theory’s concern with how a...
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Social Need and the Welfare State in Modern Japan

Vij, Ritu

Pages: 107 –159

[This chapter examines state-based welfare in relation to the conception of the individual in modern Japan. Unlike analyses that measure a state’s welfare role in quantitative terms (as a percentage of GNP), thereby attributing the breakdown of welfare to fiscal overreach or crisis, I have...
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Welfare Reforms in Recessionary Japan

Vij, Ritu

Pages: 160 –190

[The prolonged Heisei recession of the 1990s has become something of a boundary marker for Japan’s transition to the category of a “mature” capitalist economy beset with all the contradiction of its workings: alienation, inequality, poverty, immiserization, and consumerism.1 Of the many...
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Conclusion

Vij, Ritu

Pages: 191 –201

[The direction of Japan’s current economic trajectory has become the subject of much debate within and outside Japan. Its embrace of the “neoliberal turn” globalized by the “Washington Consensus”1 or, alternatively, the attempt to keep in place a now putatively obsolete and anachronistic...

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