The Review of Comparative Social Security Research
(Kaigai Shakai Hosho Kenkyu) (Published Quarterly)
Edited by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research

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This academic publication provides an overview of social security systems around the world and insight into trends in academic research in this field. Issues 150 to 170 are available. (Please note that this publication is available only in Japanese.)

(Nos. 159-161 are no longer in stock.)

New Issue

Spring 2010 No. 170  Table of Contents     ISBN: 978-4-904486-13-9

Special Issue: International Comparison of Care

• Foreword
  (Emiko Ochiai)
• Reconfiguration of Care Diamond in Japan: The Impact of the LTCI on "Familialism"
  (Emiko Ochiai, Aya Abe, Takafumi Uzuhashi, Yuko Tamiya and Masato Shikata)
• "Care Diamond" in Developing Countries
  (Akiko Saito)
• The Political and Social Economy of Care in a Development Context
  (Shahra Razavi)
• Characteristics and Issues of Care Work in Japan
  (Takafumi Uzuhashi)
• Internal Comparison of Carework Using Time-Use Survey: Implication for Japan from UNRISD Report
  (Aya Abe)

Report and Statistics

• Medical Security System in Indonesia
  (Fujino Fukuoka)

Book Review

• Li Xin HE
  The Public Pension System Reform in China: An Institutional and Empirical Analysis of the Economic System Transition Period
  (Sha YinHua)
• Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright ed.
  Inequality and Poverty Re-examined
  (Kunio Urakawa)

Back Issues

• Winter 2009 No. 169
  Special Issue: Social Policy in the UK: A Decade of New Labour
• Autumn 2009 No. 168
  Special Issue: Terminal Care in Five Countries
• Summer 2009 No. 167
  Special Issue: Comparative Study of Social Security between Korea and Japan
• Spring 2009 No. 166
  Special Issue: International Trends in Disability Policies
• Winter 2008 No. 165
  Special Issue: Social Policy of Enlarged EU and Its Implications to Member States
• Autumn 2008 No. 164
  Special Issue: Elderly Housing and Care Policy
• Summer 2008 No. 163
  Trilateral Social Security Policy Research: Canada, Korea and Japan
• Spring 2008 No. 162
  International Trend for Community-Based Comprehensive Care Systems
• Winter 2007 No. 161
  Special Issue: The Currents and Problems of the Social Protection Scheme in France
• Autumn 2007 No. 160
  The Current State of Family Policies among Developed Countries
• Summer 2007 No. 159
  Income Disparity and Social Security
• Spring 2007 No. 158
  Pension Policy at a Glance - Public Policies across Advanced Countries
• Winter 2006 No. 157
  Basic Income Scheme: Academic Controversy and Political Feasibility
• Autumn 2006 No. 156
  Demarcation and Coordination between Health and Long-Term Care in Six Countries
• Summer 2006 No. 155
  A Course of German Social Security: What Does Change of Government Bring?
• Spring 2006 No. 154
  International Trend on Interaction between Long-term Care Policy and Disability Policy
• Winter 2005 No. 153
  Social Security in Latin America
• Autumn 2005 No. 152
  Housing Policy and Social Security
• Summer 2005 No. 151
  International Trend of Corporate Pensions
• Spring 2005 No. 150
  Growing Social Security Schemes in Asia