Welfare
Welfare
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Japan's Refundable Tax Credit Starts in FY2029 — the Registration Rate for the Public Benefit Account It Rests On Is About 50%, and the Rest Still Need Their Consent Confirmed
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Ten Years of Japan's Hardship Support Scheme: 3.456 Million Enquiries, 26.6% Turned Into a Plan — and in FY2024 Enquiries Rose by 9,373 While Plans Fell by 3,790
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13.8% of People Entering Japanese Prisons Are 65 or Older — But per 100,000 Population the Over-70s Run at 4.7, a Quarter of the 20–64 Rate
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Vacancies Among Japan's Community Welfare Commissioners Reach 20,091 — The Quota Rose by 424 While 4,476 Fewer People Took the Role
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69.0% of Registered Foster Households in Japan Have No Child Placed With Them — Against a 75% Target, the Rate for Under-Threes Is 25.3%
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68.8% of Children Who Died From Abuse Were Under One, and 48.5% of Those Died on the Day They Were Born — Of Those 16, an Agency Had Been Involved With One
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95.9% of Japanese Care Facilities Require a Signature Other Than the Resident's — What the Law Forbids Is Refusal on the Sole Ground of Absence, Not the Asking
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93.4% of Adult Guardianship Applications Cite Managing or Closing a Bank Account — The Entrance to a System for Supporting Decisions Sits at a Bank Counter
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Care Managers Average 55.1 Years, the Oldest of Any Role in Japanese Care — Exam Candidates Fell From 131,560 to 49,332 and Have Not Returned in Seven Years
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91 Home-Visit Care Failures Against 45 in Day Services, Down a Fifth — In the Same Fee Revision, One Set of Units Fell and the Other Rose
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The Rise in Care-Home Food and Housing Charges Falls Only on the Upper Two Tiers Inside the Tax-Exempt Group — Japan's Supplementary Benefit Line Moves With the Pension Revision
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Young Carers Fall to 4.1% by Year 11 and Return to 6.2% in Their Third University Year — The Person Cared For Shifts From a Sibling to a Parent With Mental Illness
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424 of the 449 Disaster-Related Deaths in Noto Were Aged 70 or Over — Individual Evacuation Plans Cover 15.1% of the Registers, and 40°C Has Now Settled Over Kumamoto's Shelters
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Japan's National Pension Payment Rate Hits 79.6%, Rising for a 14th Year — Yet Fewer Months Are Actually Being Paid
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While a Work-Injury Claim Waits, Nothing Bridges the Bereaved — Six-Month-Plus Backlog Doubled to 2,329 in Five Years
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Japan's Comprehensive Support Act for Persons with Disabilities — Two Years into the Operational Phase
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Time Asymmetry in Pediatric Care: How Japan's 71.9% Dual-Income Reality Collides with Medical Access
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When Sick-Child Care Fails on the Day of Fever: Japan's Social-Security Gap
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Bound by the Phone: The Structure That Distorts Nursing Labor Quality and Time Allocation
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One Year After Japan's Loneliness and Isolation Countermeasures Act: Why Only 0.6% of Municipalities Set Up Regional Councils
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Japan's April 2026 Welfare Reform: What Changed, and What Didn't
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When Private Afterschool Care Costs Exceed Take-Home Pay — The Market Mechanics of Japan's Child Penalty
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Japan's 2025 Births Fall to 671,000 — 15 Years Ahead of Projections, Even as Marriages Rose
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Japan's Late-Elderly Medical Premium Cap Raised from ¥800K to ¥850K (FY2026): Pinpoint Increase on the Top 1.2% and Its Spillover to Middle and Lower Incomes
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Financial Income in Insurance Premiums by FY2028 — Fixing the Anomaly Where Filing a Tax Return Raises Your Premium
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Public Shortage, Private Deficit, Exit, Re-Rush — The Structural Loop of Private After-School Programs and Japan's 'Fourth-Grade Wall'
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Japan's 2026 Social Insurance Burden Rush — ¥4,800 More a Year at a ¥6M Income
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Japan's Working Pension Threshold Raised to ¥650,000: Who Actually Benefits?
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The Emergency Revision of Long-Term Care Reimbursement Rates and Its Structural Limits: The Government's Own Confession That the Ordinary System Can No Longer Keep Up
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Structural Analysis of Foreign Aid Budget Allocation: Does the ODA vs. Domestic Welfare Tradeoff Hold?
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The Core of Japan's Declining Birthrate Is Not Childcare Support: Interrogating How 140 Trillion Yen of Social Expenditure Is Split
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Japan's 1.13 Fertility Rate — The 2015 Turning Point When Married Couples Stopped Having Children
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Is Japan's Childcare Levy a 'Bachelor Tax'? — The Political Reason Social Insurance Was Chosen Over Tax
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Is Babysitter Pay a 'Business Expense'? — The Structural Fault Line in Childcare Tax Deductions
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One Year Since Japan's Loneliness Countermeasures Act — Can We Quantify 'Connection'?
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Single-Parent Poverty at 44.5%: The Structure Behind 'Working but Still Poor'
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Is a 14.3% Turnover Rate 'Low'? — The Triple Burden of Wages, Working Conditions, and Social Standing in Care Work
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The 'Invisible Walls' of Disability Pension — Structural Barriers from Application to Receipt
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Why Japan Names Crime Victims in the News — The Structure of Media Disclosure and Secondary Victimization
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Aid Abroad, Neglect at Home? Unpacking Japan's ODA Critique and Fiscal Reality
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Gen Z Is Not Lazy: The Structural Trap That Makes "Not Working" a Rational Choice in Japan
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Fertility Rate 1.15 on a ¥7.3 Trillion Budget: Evaluating Three Years of Japan's Children and Families Agency
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695,000 Licensed Nurses Not at Work — The Structure of Nurse Attrition and the 7-to-1 Staffing Trap
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Prohibition Orders Can't Stop Stalkers — The Case for Mandatory GPS Monitoring
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Japan's ¥135.5 Trillion Social Security Breakdown — Pensions 41.6%, Healthcare 33.6%, and a ¥65M Generational Gap
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The Anatomy of Japan's 'Child Penalty' — The Triple Burden of Child Allowance, Education, and Housing
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30 Years of Social Insurance Premiums — How Much Has Take-Home Pay Fallen for a ¥300K Monthly Salary?
Labs
Literature Map: The Lineage of Social Policy — Tachibana, Kenjoh, Miyamoto, and ISVD's Intersection
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Welfare Capture Rates and the 12-Fold Prefectural Gap: A Data-Driven Analysis
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¥15 Billion Fraud in Type-A Employment Support — Inside Kizuna HD's '36-Month Project' Addition-Cycling
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What Is Social Inclusion? — The Four-Dimensional Mechanism of Exclusion and Japan's Current Position
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Do You Know the 'Conditions' for Free University Tuition? — Income Limits, Multi-Child Requirements, and International Comparison
Debates
Can Basic Income Replace Social Security?
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How Many Income Walls Are There? — The Break-Even Points at ¥1.03M, ¥1.30M, ¥1.50M, and ¥2.01M
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The Cost of Zero Waitlists — Record 3,190 Childcare Accidents Reveal the Simultaneous Collapse of Quality Amid Quantitative Expansion
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The Structural Risks of Zero Food Tax — What a 5-Trillion-Yen 'Simple Solution' Obscures
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A 5-Million-Yen Salary in One Chart — Where ¥1.1M Goes, and How It Compares to 10 Years Ago
Practice Guides
Integrating Climate Justice and Social Policy — A Design Guide
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'Not Enough Time' Is Not a Personal Problem — The Structure of Time Poverty Produced by a 5.5-fold Gender Gap in Unpaid Labor
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The Silent Erosion of Disposable Income — How Inflation and Rising Social Insurance Premiums Are Squeezing Household Finances in 2026
Practice Guides
The Common Structure of 'Unreached Populations' — What a 20% Take-up Rate Reveals About Policy Design
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How Much Is Japan's Child Support Levy? The Burden on Singles and Childless Households
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Why They Keep Gathering Despite Exclusion — The Structural 'Place to Belong' Crisis Revealed by Guri-shita and Tō-yoko
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What 'Tuition-Free' Doesn't Cover — The Education Gap Hidden by Japan's High School Tuition Subsidy
Labs
Poverty and Epistemic Exclusion — The Structure of 'Being Unable Even to Know'
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When Children's Tables Break Down — The Triple Crisis of Free School Lunches, Solitary Eating, and Kodomo Shokudo
Practice Guides
Wellbeing Policy Design Guide — Embedding Subjective Well-Being in Public Policy
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Pension Intergenerational Inequality — A ¥60 Million Structural Fault Line
Labs
Why Are the Voices of Persons with Disabilities Not Heard? — The Japanese Structure of Testimonial Injustice
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The Structure of ¥48 Trillion in Medical Expenses — A Turning Point for Sustainability Toward 2030
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Dismantling the '1.06 Million Yen Wall' — The Social Insurance Turning Point Facing 2 Million Workers
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The Structure of Japan's Care Worker Crisis — The 'Invisible Roadmap' to 2040
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Behind Japan's 11.5% Child Poverty Rate: The 44.5% Single-Parent Reality
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Public Assistance 'Capture Rate' 20% — The Invisible Gaps in Japan's Safety Net
Practice Guides
Why AI Adoption Stalls in Nonprofits — Three Structural Barriers and How to Overcome Them
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