Comparative Studies between British Welfare Reforms and Japanese ones

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In 1998 British Prime Minister Tony Blair published his political ideas as Third Way in the Fabian Pamphlet and his plan for social welfare reforms in New ambitions for our country : A New Contract for Welfare. Also in Japan, since 2001 the series of Basic Policies for Economic and Fiscal Management and Structural Reform have been decided by Koizumi Cabinet. Social welfare reforms were included in those basic policies. And Koizumi Cabinet has launched social welfare reforms on the basis of those policies decided by his cabinet. In general Japanese social welfare institutions have been influenced by western countries including Great Britain. In this paper I would like to describe the similarities and differences between the British contemporary social welfare reforms and the Japanese as the emerging social welfare policies. The trends of social welfare reforms in the industrial advanced countries have much the same characteristics. Self-help is advocated by the government. But the ways to goals of reforms are different. British welfare reform plan presents numerical evidence to the people. But Japanese welfare reform plan almost never presents numerical evidence. The Japanese government is rather inclined to present the expression of words only. I expect that Japanese government should indicate numerical evidence and the amount of investment or injection into the projects in basic policies of social welfare reforms by the Prime Minister
2006-02-27