(2) Public Symposium:
Is Japan an Equal Society? Policies against Poverty and Social Exclusion

 

Programme

What is Social Exclusion?
Lessons from the UK, Hopes for Japan

Venue: North Hall, Keio University, Tokyo
Time: January 7th, 2012 13:00～17:15

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13.00 — Opening Words
Dr Nishimura, Director, IPSS

13.15 — Keynote Speeches
David Gordon, University of Bristol:
Poverty and Social Exclusion Policies in the UK

Makoto Yuasa, Head, Social Exclusion Unit Japan:
The Success and Failures of Social Inclusion Policy in Japan

15.00 — Break

15.15 — Panel Discussion
Moderator: Aya Abe, NIPSSR

David Gordon, Bristol University
Makoto Yuasa, Social Exclusion Unit Japan
Jonathan Bradshaw, York University
Christina Pantazis, Bristol University
Kohei Komamura, Keio University
Masami Iwata, Japan Women's University
Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Doshisha University →

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Toshiaki Tachibanaki

Toshiaki Tachibanaki is Professor of Economics at Kyoto University, Director of the Millennium Project on Aging at the Economic Planning Agency in Japan. He has held several visiting and regular positions at INSEE, OECD, Stanford, Essex, London School of Economics and various government research institutions such as EPA, Bank of Japan, MOF and MITI. He studied at Otaru University of Commerce, and received his master's degree from the Graduate School, Osaka University and PhD degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1973. He is the author of Wage Determination and Distribution in Japan, Public Policies and the Japanese Economy, Wage Differentials: An International Comparison, and Capital and Labour in Japan, and The New Paradox for the Japanese Women: Greater Choice, Greater Inequality. He was awarded the 37th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science in 1994, and the Yishibashi Tanzan Prize for his book Japan's Economy Seen from the Household (Iwanami Shinsho) in 2004.


Selected Recent Publications

"Inequality and Poverty in Japan", The Japanese Economic Review, Vol.57, No.1, pp.1-27 (2006)

Unequal Society, What Is the Problem? (in Japanese), Iwanami Shinsho (2006)

Poverty Research in Japan (in Japanese), with Urakawa, K., University of Tokyo Press (2006)

"An Empirical Analysis on Poverty and Labour in Japan" (in Japanese), with Urakawa, K., The Japanese Journal of Labour Studies (Nihon Rodo Kenkyu Zasshi), Vol.49, No.6, pp.4-19 (2007)

The Effect of Changes in Family Structures on Intergenerational Transfer of Inequality in Japan, Inequalization Trend and Policy Options in Japan (with Urakawa, K.), Tokyo: Economic and Social Research Institute, pp.4-36 (2007)

"Trends in Poverty among Low-Income Workers in Japan since the Nineties" (with Urakawa, K.), Japan Labour Review, Vol.5, No.4, pp.21-48 (2008)

To Rescue the Poverty, Social Security Reform or Basic Income? (in Japanese), with Yamamori, R., Jinbunshoin (2009)

Confronting Income Inequality in Japan, The MIT Press (2009)

Educational Disparities in Japan (in Japanese), Iwanami Shinsho (2010)

The New Paradox for the Japanese Women: Greater Choice, Greater Inequality, International House of Japan (2010)


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