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>HOME Japanese Page ■Definition of the Poor A person who is not able to maintain a wholesome and cultured standard of living due to poverty Source:Public Assistance Act http://eiyaku.hounavi.jp/eigo/s25a14401.php Cf. The Right to Live Article 25 of the Japanese Constitution 1. All people shall have the right to maintain the minimum standards of wholesome and cultured living. 2. In all spheres of life, the State shall use its endeavors for the promotion and extension of social welfare and security, and of public health. ■WHO ◆HASHIGUCHI Shoji （橋口 昌治） ◆IWATA Masami （岩田正美） ◆SUGIMURA Hiroshi （杉村宏） ◆TACHIBANAKI Toshiaki （橘木 俊詔） ■Literature in Japanese ◆MIYAMOTO Taro November 21, 2009 Life Security: Toward the Society that does not Eliminate （『生活保障――排除しない社会へ』）Iwanami Shoten, 234p. ISBN-10: 4004312167 ISBN-13: 978-4004312161 840yen [amazon]/[kinokuniya]    TATEIWA Shin'ya, MURAKAMI Shinji & HASHIGUCHI Shoji Repairing the Tax （『税を直す』） ISBN-10: 4791764935 ISBN-13: 978-4791764938 2310yen [amazon]/[kinokuniya]           ◆YUASA Makoto September 4, 2009 "Japan's Anti-Poverty Policies in Need of Change After 50 Years of Stagnation" http://www.tokyofoundation.org/en/articles/2009/japan2019s-anti-poverty-policies-in-need-of-change-after-50-years-of-stagnation ◆OECD December 18, 2008 Jobs for Youth/Des Emplois pour les jeunes : JAPAN 2009 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 132p. ISBN-10: 9264055991 ISBN-13: 978-9264055995 [amazon]/[kinokuniya]  http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/48/56/41494435.pdf ◆GENDA Yuji 2007 "Jobless Youths and the NEET Problem in Japan", Social Science Japan Journal 10:23-40 http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/10/1/23 ◆TACHIBANAKI Toshiaki March 2006 "Inequality and Poverty in Japan", The Japanese Economic Review 57(1):1-27 http://www.pucsp.br/geap/textodocalendario/tachibanaki.pdf ■Newspaper Articles etc. ◆October 21, 2009 "First Ever Poverty Rate Released by Ministry Stands at Relatively High 15.7%" (The Japan Times) http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20091021a3.html ◆October 20, 2009 "One in Six Japanese Living in Poverty: Survey" (AFP) http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hT_bXvi0R7kJPuft8LSyfjcqt-aQ ◆October 20, 2009 "Japan Govt's Poverty Data Signals Policy Shift" (Business Week) http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2009/10/japan_govts_pov.html ◆October 19, 2009 "One Step toward Reality Check of Poverty Rate and Analysis of its Details: Causative Factors and Processes" (The Kyoto Shimbun) ◆October 14, 2009 "Let's Think about Youth Poverty--Employment, Residence and Safety Net: A series of seminars organized by union members and graduate students start from October 17 in Nakagyo Ward" (The Kyoto Shimbun) ◆May 19, 2009 "Rising Poverty in Japan" (The Japan Times) http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20090519a2.html ◆July 28, 2006 "The Face of Poverty Ages In Rapidly Graying Japan" (The Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/27/AR2006072701856.html ◆July 20, 2006 "OECD Concerned About Rising Poverty in Japan" (Voice of America) http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2006-07/2006-07-20-voa15.cfm?moddate=2006-07-20 ◆June 19, 2004 "Being NEET not so Neat for Nation's Youth" (The Japan Times) http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20040619f2.html ■Theme-related Links ◆Annual Health, Labour and Welfare Report 2007-2008 http://www.mhlw.go.jp/english/wp/wp-hw2/index.html ◆Annual Reports on Health and Welfare 1998-1999 Social Security and National Life http://www.mhlw.go.jp/english/wp/wp-hw/index.html ◆Country Note Japan http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/45/58/41527388.pdf ◆Economic Survey of Japan 2006: Income Inequality, Poverty and Social Spending http://www.oecd.org/document/38/0,3343,en_2649_34321_37130854_1_1_1_1,00.html ◆Employment measures in Post-Financial Crisis Japan (July 2009) http://www.mhlw.go.jp/za/0728/d04/d04-02.pdf ◆Income Distribution-Poverty http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=POVERTY ◆Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries in the Second Half of the 1990s http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/48/9/34483698.pdf ◇Irregular Employment ◆Professor Angus Maddison http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/ ◇Public Assistance ◆World Development Indicators 2009 http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/DATASTATISTICS/0,,contentMDK:21725423~pagePK:64133150~piPK:64133175~theSitePK:239419,00.html UP:October 29, 2009 REV:October 30, 2009/November 13, 2009/November 16, 2009/November 20, 2009/November 24, 2009/December 1, 2009/December 24, 2009 Preparer:KATAOKA Minoru ◇Social Policy |