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Article: One Worm of Welfare: Japan in Comparative Perspective.(Book review)
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- Journal of East Asian Studies
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- May 1, 2008
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One Worm of Welfare: Japan in Comparative Perspective. By Gregory J. Kasza. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. 189 pp. $35.00. Cloth.
Gregory Kasza's One World of Welfare: Japan in Comparative Perspective is a long-overdue, comprehensive study of Japan's welfare policies. For a subject that has attracted attention from Japan specialists and scholars of comparative welfare policy, the debate over Japan's welfare state has often lacked a clear empirical and conceptual baseline. Kasza's book nicely fills this gap. It deftly combines an array of comparative data with clear, albeit at times polemical, argumentation to advance two claims: (1) Japan is not a ...