Pushing for Social Care Expansion: Demography, Gender, and the New Politics of the Welfare State in Japan
Author(s)
Peng, Ito
Abstract
Examines the 1997 introduction of Japan’s long-term care insurance system as part of ongoing social policy reform and the influence of the Koreika Shakai wo Yokusuru Josei no Kai (Women’s Committee for the Improvement of the Aging Society) on the development and passage of the legislation.