IS AGEING AN ISSUE OF SOCIAL CONTRACT IN WELFARE TRANSFER, OR GENERATIONAL CONFLICTS?
THE CASE OF JAPAN ABSTRACT Elder care is a major social issue in many industrial societies as well as in developing countries. This paper tries to analyse care, intergenerational welfare and informal social protection by using the case of Japan, one of the most advanced industrial societies in East Asia. The main theme of this paper is a focus on the importance of relations between generations in welfare production for elder care. The analysis of this paper will provide discussions on intergenerational relations and welfare state debates by the analysis of Japan’s care provision with the use of two concepts, welfare pluralism, and social equity and economic efficiency. Welfare production is the product of four sectors and their combinations. These sectors are the informal sector (family, relatives and neighbours), the statutory sector (for example local authorities), the private sector (profit oriented private corporations) and the voluntary sector such as charity organisations (non-pr
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