Comparative institutional analysis of the Japanese type of welfare pluralism - the importance of social welfare reforms singe 1980s in Japan -

本研究旨在分析日本的福利改革，并从国际比较的角度对我的福利改革进行评价。日本目前的福利改革可以称之为“日本式福利社会”。首先，我考察了埃斯平-安徒生福利制度理论的意义。他将先进资本主义朝臣的福利改革分为社会民主党、自由党和保守党三种类型。根据他的理论，日本的福利改革是福利改革的一种混合变种。因此，用我自己的理论框架，我可以发现“日本型福利社会”是建立在所谓的“公司中心社会”和日本式的男性养家糊口的模式之上的。然后分析了20世纪90年代末日本引入护理社会保险的过程，认为这是日本社会保障制度结构性改革的第一步。因此，我得出结论，护理制度改革将使日本的福利改革接近自由主义的改革类型。但日本福利改革的保守特征仍然存在，日本的福利改革不太可能在短期内接近社民党式的福利改革。同时，我考察了全球化对二战后发达资本主义国家福利国家蓬勃发展的民族国家的影响。我指出了创建反对全球化的新公共领域的可能性。我将朝着研究可持续福利社会的方向迈进一步，在这个社会中，不仅社会福利问题应该得到重视，而且环境保护问题也应该得到重视。

This research has aimed to analyze the welfare rejime in Japan and to evaluate me rejime in terms of international comparison. The current type of the welfare rejime in Japan may be called "The Japanese Type of Welfare Society". First of all I examined the significance of G. Esping-Andersen's theory of welfare regime. He classifies the welfare rejimes In advanced capitalist courtiers into three types which are Social democratic, Liberal and Conservative. According to his theory, the Japanese welfare rejime is a kind of hybrid variety of welfare rejime. So using my own theoretical framework, I could find "The Japanese Type of Welfare Society" being based on so-called "Company-centered Society" and the Japanese type of the male breadwinner model. Then I analyzed the process of introduction of the social insurance for nursing care in late 1990s which was considered as the first step toward the structural reforms of social security system in Japan. So I concluded that the reform of nursing care system would make- the Japanese welfare rejime come close to Liberal rejime type. But toe conservative characteristic of the welfare rejime in Japan still remains It is unlikely that the Japanese welfare rejime will get close to Social democratic rejime-type in the near future.At the same time I examined the impact of globalization upon the nation states within which the welfare states flowered in advanced capitalist countries after World War II. I showed that there is a possibility of creating the new public sphere opposed to globalization.I will take a next step toward doing research on the sustainable welfare society in which the issues of not only social welfare but also environmental protection should be taken seriously.