(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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Masami Iwata

Masami Iwata is professor of social welfare at the Faculty of Integrated Arts and Social Science, Japan Women's University and the director of Research Institute for Women and Careers since 2008. She was a visiting researcher at Princeton University during 2001-2002. She received her master degree in Social Policy from Graduate School of Economics, Chuo University in 1971 and a PhD in Social Welfare. Her research interest mainly focuses on poverty and social welfare policy, panel studies and poverty dynamics, homeless and social exclusion. She was awarded the Academy Award by the Society for the Study of Social Policy in 1995 for her book The Most Base and Metropolitan Postwar Expansion of Social Welfare (Minerva, 1995), and the Fukutake Tadashi Award in 1997. She has written extensively on public policies, social welfare in Japan, social exclusion and poverty problems.


Selected Recent Publications

Poverty and Social Work: Theory of Public Assistance (in Japanese), with Okabe, T. and Shimizu, K., Yuhikaku (2003)

"Homelessness in Contemporary Japan" Izuhara, M. (eds.) Comparing Social Policies: Exploring new perspectives in Britain and Japan, Policy Press (2003)

"New Poverty and Strategies for 'Social Exclusion'" Uyama, K. and Kobayashi, R. (eds.) Focus of the New Social Welfare (in Japanese), Mitsuokan (2004)

Poverty and Social Exclusion: What Undermine the Social Welfare (in Japanese), with Nishizawa, A., Minerva (2005)

Poverty in Contemporary Japan: Working Poor/ Homeless/ Social Security (in Japanese), Chikuma (2007)

"Social Exclusion and Homelessness" Hirayama, Y. and Ronald, R. (eds.) Housing and Social Transition in Japan, Routledge (2007)

Social Exclusion: Lack of Participation, Uncertain Attribution (in Japanese), Yuhikaku Insight (2008)

Poverty and Social Welfare in Japan (with Akihiko Nishizawa), Trans Pacific Press (2008)


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