Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan: Party, Bureaucracy, and Business Book

Tables, Figures, and Appendices

Introduction The Puzzle of Japan's Welfare Capitalism 1

1 Rashomon: The Japanese Welfare State in a Comparative Perspective 19

2 Structural Logic of Welfare Politics 51

3 Historical Patterns of Structural Logic in Postwar Japan 77

4 The Rise of the Japanese Social Protection System in the 1950s 102

5 Economic Growth and Japan's Selective Welfare Expansion 138

6 Institutional Complementarities and Japanese Welfare Capitalism 168

7 The Emergence of Trouble in the 1970s 199

8 Policy Shifts in the 1990s: The Emergence of European-Style Welfare Politics 224

9 The End of Japan's Social Protection as We Know It: Becoming Like Britain? 254

Conclusion: Two Future Scenarios 287

Bibliography 297

Index 329