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[Brief Information on Tax System in Japan]

◆History of Consumption Tax (Indirect Tax)
April 1, 1989 Introduction of Consumption Tax (3%)
             ↓
April 1, 1997 Raising the Rate of Consumption Tax from 3% to 5% (Nation:4%/Region:1%)

◆History of Maximum Income Tax Rate (Direct Tax)
Year 1986 70.0%
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Year 1987 60.0%
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Year 1989 50.0%
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Year 1999 37.0%
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Year 2007 40.0%

History of Income Tax Rate in Japan

[Literature]

MAKI Masako September 30, 2012 Repeal of Deduction for the Elderly and Health-care Insurance Reform: Verification of "Earnings-related System" of the National Health Insurance Fees (Taxes), Bunrikaku, 193p. ISBN-10:4892596914 ISBN-13:978-4892596919; 2,000 yen + tax [amazon][kinokuniya]

Repeal of Deduction for the Elderly and Health-care Insurance Reform: Verification of


TATEIWA Shin'ya & HOTTA Yoshitaro June 10, 2012 Differences and Equalities: Disability and Care / Paid Work and Unpaid Work, Seidosha, 342+17p. ISBN-10:4791766458 ISBN-13: 978-4791766451 2400 + tax [amazon][kinokuniya]

Differences and Equalities: Disability and Care / Paid Work and Unpaid Work


TATEIWA Shin'ya June 2, 2010 "Repairing the Axis Immediately: What has Happened And what Is to Come," Keynote Lecture, General Meeting of the Kyoto City Home Care Providers Association, Kyoto City Hito Machi Kouryukan

TATEIWA Shin'ya May 28, 2010 "Fights over Limits: Analysis of the Past Decade in Japan", Conference of Social Welfare Program Society of South Korea, Seoul, South Korea

TATEIWA Shin'ya May 27, 2010 Making Income Tax More Progressive: Discussing What Kind of Society we should Aim to Create," Asahi Shimbun

TATEIWA Shin'ya, MURAKAMI Shinji & HASHIGUCHI Shoji September 10, 2009 Repairing the Tax, Seidosha, 350p. ISBN-10: 4791764935 ISBN-13: 978-4791764938 2310yen [amazon]/[kinokuniya]

『税を直す』Repairing the Tax


◆KITANO Hirohisa October 2007 "Welfare States Demand Progressive Taxes ( Oct.2007 )", The 2007 Asia -Pacific Taxpayers Union Meeting ( Oct.20-22 ), Shenzhen, China.
 http://www.taxpayers.jp/e-doc01.html

◆MURPHY Liam B. and NAGEL Thomas 2002 The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice, Oxford Univ Pr, 228p. ASIN: 0195176561 (pb 2004/12/9)  [amazon]=20061110 伊藤 恭彦訳,『税と正義』,名古屋大学出版会,255p. ASIN: 4815805482 4725 [amazon][kinokuniya] ※ t07,

◆Hiromitsu Ishi, 2001, The Japanese Tax System (3RD), Oxford Univ Pr, 228p.[amazon][kinokuniya]


[Theme-related Links]

◆Japanese Tax System [1999 Edition] Tax Bureau Ministry of Finance JAPAN
http://www.mof.go.jp/english/zei/report2/zc001a.htm#02

◆Ministry of Finance Japan
http://www.mof.go.jp/english/index.htm

◆Taxation in Japan
http://www.hi-ho.ne.jp/yokoyama-a/taxationinjapan.htm

[Newspaper Articles]

◆November 1, 2010 "Bill in Works to Woo Foreign Firms to Japan" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20101101a2.html
◆October 31, 2010 "Higher taxes won't bail out Japan" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/rc20101031a5.html
◆October 29, 2010 "Ax corporate tax to halt exodus amid high yen, Ota says" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20101029n2.html
◆October 26, 2010 "Taxation about Striking the Right Balance" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20101026i1.html
◆October 14, 2010 "Let the tobacco tax drift higher" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/rc20101014a6.html
◆October 14, 2010 "Kan pushes corporate tax cut, hits 'currency war'" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20101014a4.html
◆October 13, 2010 "Kan must rediscover Japan" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/eo20101013a1.html
◆October 13, 2010 "Sharper Prod to Quit Smoking" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20101013a1.html
◆October 11, 2010 "Rough reform plans for taxation, social security systems on way" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20101011a3.html
◆October 5, 2010 "Keidanren cool to carbon tax call" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20101005a3.html
◆October 3, 2010 "Mr. Kan's to-do list rumps vision" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20101003a1.html
◆September 26, 2010 "Corporate Tax Cut, EPAs Key: Ohata" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100926f1.html
◆September 23, 2010 "Smokers stock up ahead of price hike" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20100923a3.html
◆September 15, 2010 "Kan urged to focus on nation's finances" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100915a4.html
◆September 10, 2010 "Weigh corporate tax cut, Kan tells panel" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100910a1.html
◆August 27, 2010 "Health Plan Integrity" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20100827a2.html
◆August 20, 2010 "28 governors favor hike in sales tax: poll" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100820a4.html
◆August 11, 2010 "Can Japan's politics change people's despair to hope?" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/eo20100811sf.html
◆August 11, 2010 "National debt hits 190% of GDP at 900 trillion yen" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100811a4.html
◆August 8, 2010 "Gemba: DPJ open to cross-party talks" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100808a9.html
◆August 6, 2010 "Keidanren calls on DPJ for reform drive" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20100806a2.html
◆August 5, 2010 "Kan relents on push for sales tax hike" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100805a1.html
◆August 4, 2010 "Kan renews plea for tax-hike cooperation" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100804a3.html
◆August 4, 2010 "Mr. Kan addresses budget panel" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20100804a1.html
◆August 3, 2010 "Facing Criticism from within" (The Japan Times)
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20100803a1.html



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Philosophy of Economy - Politics

GOTOH Reiko & SEN Amartya K. December 19, 2008 Well-Being and Justice, University of Tokyo Press, ix+299p+viiiISBN-10: 4130101102 ISBN-13: 978-4130101103 2940yen [amazon] / [kinokuniya] (Japanese)

福祉と正義

TATEIWA Shin'ya & INABA Shinichiro(稲葉 振一郎) August 2006 Future of Property and State (Shoyu to Kokka no Yukue), Tokyo, NHK-Shuppan ISBN:414091064X 1176yen [amazon][kinokuniya] ※,
Future of Property and State

GOTOH Reiko et.al. December 2004 Life in Risk Society [amazon]

『リスク社会を生きる』


◆SHIONOYA Yuichi, SUZUMURA Kotaro & GOTOH Reiko (eds.) January 16, 2004 Public Philosophy of Welfare (Japanese), University of Tokyo Press, 336p. ISBN 4-13-051119-X 4410yen [amazon]/[boople]/[bk1] (Japanese)

『福祉の公共哲学』


GOTOH Reiko June 29, 2002 Economical Philosophy of Justice: Rawls and Sen, Toyo Keizai Shinposha, 466p. 4200yen

『正義の経済哲学――ロールズとセン』


TATEIWA Shin'ya January 14, 2004 Equality of Freedom: An Another Simple World, Iwanami Shoten, 349+41p. ISBN:4000233874 3100yen [amazon]/[boople]/[bk1] (Japanese)

『自由の平等』



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■■Diability - Social Services

Personal Assistance > Direct Payment

NAKANISHI Shoji & UENO Chizuko October 21, 2003 The Sovereignty of the Involved Persons, Iwanami Shoten, 216p. ISBN-10: 4004308607 ISBN-13: 978-4004308607 735yen [amazon]/[kinokuniya]

TATEIWA Shin'ya "Leaving and Encounter: On Assistance" (Chapter 7)
TATEIWA Shin'ya October 2000 Freedom to be Weak, Seidosha

[Theme-related Links]

◆International Forum on Independent Living
http://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/japanese/conf/z20/z20001/z2001028.html

◆Disability World
http://www.disabilityworld.org/

◆UCD Equality Studies Centre
http://www.ucd.ie/esc/index.html

◆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




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Aging

AMADA Josuke January 30, 2007 Sociology of Aging and Frailty (Trade Edition), Taga Shuppan, 606p. ISBN: 4-8115-6362-X 5250yen [amazon]/[boople] (Japanese)

〈老い衰えゆくこと〉の社会 普及版


AMADA Josuke March 30, 2004 Freedom for the Frail Elderly: Social Theory of the Elderly Care from the User's Viewpoints, Harvestsha, 394p. ISBN: 4-938551-68-3 3800yen [amazon]/[boople]/[bk1] (Japanese)

AMADA Josuke February 28, 2003 Sociology of Aging and Frailty, Taga Shuppan, 595p. ISBN: 4-8115-6361-1 8925yen [amazon]/[boople]/[bk1]

[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




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■■Medical Care

MATSUDA Ryozo & MUNESUE Tokuko (eds.) February 20, 2009 International Symposium "Health, Equity and Human Rights: Seeking Grounds of Anti-Health Gap", Report Issued by Research Center Ars Vivendi of Ritsumeikan University, Vol.7, 2009. 130p. ISSN 1882-6539

MATSUDA Ryozo February 10, 2009 Challenging Fairness of Health and Medical Care: International Development and Comparative Policy Analysis of in the United States and the United Kingdom, Keiso Shobo 266p. ISBN-10:4326700610 ISBN-13:978-4326700615 3,360yen [amazon]/[kinokuniya](Japanese)

健康


[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



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■■Labour Policy

Workfareワークフェア

[Who]

KOBAYASHI Hayato小林 勇人
Charles Evers

[Literature]

◆Taro Miyamoto, 1993, "Dualism, Corporatism and New Convergence? : The Japanese Model from a Comparative Perspective," Ritsumeikan Law Review, No.8.

◆Taro Miyamoto, 1993, "Problem of the Meaning of Post-Fordism," in T. Kato and R. Steven (eds.), Is Japanese Management Post-Fordism? Mado-sha.

◆Takafumi Uzuhashi, 2002, "Japan: Bidding Farewell to the Welfare Society," Alcock, P. & G.Craig (eds.) International Social Policy: Welfare Regimes in the Developed World, Palgrave.

◆Hiroshi Shibuya, Makoto MARUYAMA and Masamitsu YASAKA eds., May 2002, Japanese Economy and Society under Pax-Americana, University of Tokyo Press,May 2002, pp.415.

◆Taro Miyamoto, 2003,"The Dynamics of the Japanese Welfare State in Comparative Perspective," Japanese Journal of Social Security Policy, Vol.2, No.2.

◆Stephen P. Osborne, Kate McLaughlin and Taro Miyamoto, 2003, "Managing the Japanese Voluntary and Non-profit Sector," S. P. Osborne (ed.), The Voluntary and Non-Profit Sector in Japan: The Challenge of Change, Loutledge.

◆Aya Ezawa and Chisa Fujiwara, 2003, "Lone Mothers and Welfare-to-Work Policies in Japan and the United States: Towards an Alternative Perspective,"
Individual Paper Submitted to the New Scholars Program, RC 19 Conference of the ISA in Toronto, 2003
http://individual.utoronto.ca/RC19_2003/pdf/Lone_Mothers_and_Welfare_to_Work_Policies.pdf

◆Takafumi Uzuhashi, 200310, "Japanese Model of Welfare State: How it was changed throughout “the lost decade” of the 1990’s?," Paper for the Symposium, East Asia-Europe-USA Progressive Scholars’ Forum 2003 , 11-15 October, 2003. http://test.global-g.jp/paper/1-19.pdf

◆Michihiko Tokoro, 200312, "Social Policy and Lone parenthood in Japan: A Workfare Tradition?," The Japanese Journal of Social Security Policy : Vol.2, No.2, pp.45-58.
http://www.ipss.go.jp/webj-ad/webJournal.files/SocialSecurity/2003/03dec/Tokoro2003dec.pdf

◆Ezawa Aya and Fujiwara Chisa, 2005, "Lone Mothers and Welfare-to-work Policies in Japan and the United States: Towards an Alternative Perspective,"
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, vol. 32, no4, pp. 41-63.

◆Takegawa Shogo, December 2005, "Japan’s Welfare-State Regime: Welfare Politics, Provider and Regulator," Development and Society, Vol. 34 No. 2: 169-190.

◆KOBAYASHI Hayato, April 15, 2006 "A Reexamination of the GAIN Program in California: For the Evaluation of Workfare Policy"
Syakai Seisaku Kenkyu 6: 165-83
[abstract] (http://workfare.info/kh/200602.htm#e)

◆Ezawa, Aya, 2006, "How Japanese Single Mothers Work,"
Japanstudien 18. Arbeitswelten in Japan (How Japan works). Mu"nchen: iudicium Verlag. pp. 59-83.
http://www.dijtokyo.org/doc/JS18_ezawa.pdf

◆KOBAYASHI Hayato, March 31, 2007 "The Origin and Transformation of the Idea of Workfare: From Charles Evers to Richard Nixon"
Core Ethics 3:133-142 [abstract]

◆KOBAYASHI Hayato, June 23, 2007 "Workfare Policies in New York City: Effects Program of "Assistance" of Work "Programs Bring"
Fukushi Shakaigaku Kenkyu 4: 144-164
[abstract] (http://workfare.info/kh/200703.htm#e)

◆Joel F. Handler, March 2008, "The Rise and Spread of Workfare, Activation, Devolution, and Privatization, and the Changing Status of Citizenship,"
Public Law & Legal Theory Research Paper Series
Research Paper No. 08-05
http://www.resqresearch.org/uploaded_files/publications/handler1.pdf

◆KOBAYASHI Hayato, May 31, 2008, "Book Review: Negishi, Takehiro, Welfare Reform in the U.S.A,"
 Study of Social Welfare 49(1), 199-201, Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare
 For Details(http://workfare.info/kh/200801.htm) (Japanese)
cf (http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jssw/) (Japanese)

◆Margarita Estevez-Abe, 2008, Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan: Party, Bureaucracy, and Business, Cambridge University Press ISBN-10: 0521722217 ISBN-13: 978-0521722216 2,913yen [amazon]

◆Takegawa Shogo, November 2009, "Introduction," International Journal of Japanese Sociology, No. 18, 2-3.

◆Takegawa Shogo, November 2009, "International Circumstances as Factors in Building a Welfare State: Welfare Regimes in Europe, Japan and Korea," International Journal of Japanese Sociology, No. 18, 79-96.


Migrant Labour

[Literature]

◆CONSTABLE Nicole. 2007 Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers (2nd Edition), Cornell University Press ISBN-10: 0801473233 ISBN-13: 978-0801473234 1,932yen [amazon]

◆PARRENAS Rhacel S. 2001 Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work (1st Edition), Stanford University Press; ISBN-10: 0804739218 ISBN-13: 978-0804739214 5,700yen [amazon]

◆PARRENAS Rhacel S. 2008 The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization: Nation of Newcomers, New York University Press ISBN-10: 0814767354 ISBN-13: 978-0814767351 2,493yen [amazon]


■[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


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■■Global Justice

POGGE Thomas W. March 3, 2008 World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reformes (Second Edition), Polity Press ISBN-10: 074564144X ISBN-13: 978-0745641447 ¥2,927 [amazon]
→Translation by Tateiwa Shinya et al. 2009 (forthcoming) Sekai no Hinkon to Jinken: Cosmopolitan no Sekinin to Kaikaku (Japanese), Seikatsu Syoin.



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■■Culture & Language

[Full Papers]

◆McDERMOTT, RAY & HERVE VARENNE 1995 "Culture as Disability", Anthropology and Education Quarterly 26:323-348
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_cult/culturedisability.html

◆The Braille Monitor, in National Federation of the Blinds
http://www.nfb.org/nfb/Braille_Monitor.asp?SnID=1613666997

◆LANG Kathleen, "Art for the Blind"
http://www.artagogo.com/commentary/artforblind/artforblind.htm

[Theme-related Links]

◆Deaf Culture Online
http://www.deaf-culture-online.com/index.html

◆Deaf Culture
http://www.deafculture.com/

◆About.com: Deafness
http://deafness.about.com/

◆Deaf Culture, in Sound and Fury
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/soundandfury/culture/index.html

◆Deaf Community Cultural Resources
http://www.concentric.net/~Tlshell/deaf.html

◆Art Beyond Sight, Art Education for the Blind's
http://www.artbeyondsight.org/

[Coming Events]

◆International Conference: Bonds and Boundaries: New Perspectives on Justice and Culture (March 18, 19 & 20, 2009)
 http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/acd/gr/gsce/2009/20100318.htm

◆International Conference Translation Studies in the Japanese Context (January 9 & 10, 2010)
 http://translationstudies.net/tsc2010/index_en.html



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■■Recent Books/Reports Written or Translated by Program Members

TATEIWA Shin'ya August 16, 2010 The Human Condition: There is no such thing, Rironsha, ISBN-10: 4652078552 ISBN-13: 978-4652078556  1575 [amazon]/[kinokuniya]

『人間の条件』


TATEIWA Shin'ya & SAITO Taku April 10, 2010 Basic Income: Possibility of the Minimal State that Distributes,Seidosha,ISBN-10: 4791765257 ISBN-13: 978-4791765256 2310 [amazon]/[kinokuniya]

『ベーシック・インカム』


GOTOH Reiko & DUMOUCHEL Paul November 2009 Against Injustice: The New Economics of Amartya Sen, Cambridge University Press, 344p ISBN-10: 0521899591 ISBN-13: 978-0521899598 [amazon]

『Against Injustice』


TATEIWA Shin'ya, MURAKAMI Shinji & HASHIGUCHI Shoji September 10, 2009 Repairing the Tax, Seidosha, 350p. ISBN-10: 4791764935 ISBN-13: 978-4791764938 2310yen [amazon]/[kinokuniya]

『税を直す』


◆VAN PARIJS Philippe 1995 Real Freedom for All: What (If Anything) Can Justify Capitalism?, Oxford Univ Pr (Sd) Oxford Politician Theory ; ISBN: 0198293577 U.K. Regular Price: £24.49 ¥5,453 [amazon]
→Translation by GOTOH Reiko & SAITO Taku June 10, 2009 Basic Income no Tetsugaku-Subete no Hito ni Riaru na Jiyu wo (Japanese), Keiso Shobo, 494p. ISBN-10: 4326101830 ISBN-13: 978-4326101832 [amazon]/[kinokuniya] (Japanese)

Real Freedom for All: What (If Anything) Can Justify Capitalism?


MATSUDA Ryozo & MUNESUE Tokuko (eds.) February 20, 2009 International Symposium "Health, Equity and Human Rights: Seeking Grounds of Anti-Health Gap", Report Issued by Research Center Ars Vivendi of Ritsumeikan University, Vol.7, 2009. 130p. ISSN 1882-6539

MATSUDA Ryozo February 10, 2009 Challenging Fairness of Health and Medical Care: International Development and Comparative Policy Analysis of in the United States and the United Kingdom, Keiso Shobo 266p. ISBN-10:4326700610 ISBN-13:978-4326700615 3,360yen [amazon]/[kinokuniya](Japanese)

健康


GOTOH Reiko & SEN Amartya K. December 19, 2008 Well-Being and Justice, University of Tokyo Press, ix+299p+viiiISBN-10: 4130101102 ISBN-13: 978-4130101103 2940yen [amazon] / [kinokuniya] (Japanese)

福祉と正義


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