10:00 - 10:10

Introduction and Welcome

NITTA Michio, Director, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo

10:00 - 12:10

Session 1: Welfare State and Market Logic in Europe and America

Chairperson:

IMURA Shinya, Chuo University, Japan
Charles WEATHERS, Osaka City University, Japan

"A Perspective to Analyze Welfare State and Market Logic under American Impacts" SHIBUYA Hiroshi, ISS, University of Tokyo, Japan

"The French Welfare State: An institutional and historical analysis in European perspective"
Robert BOYER, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and CNRS-CEPREMAP, France

"U.S. Welfare Reform: Learning Experience or Self-Delusion?"
Max SAWICKY, Economic Policy Institute, USA

"Markets as Regulated by Non-Market Logic"
MARUYAMA Makoto, University of Tokyo, Japan

Questions and Comments

12:10 - 13:00

Break

13:00 - 15:30

Session 2: The Japanese and Chinese Welfare State

Chairperson:
TAJIMA Toshio, ISS, University of Tokyo, Japan
OKADA Tetsutaro, Kagawa University, Japan

"Healthcare Reform in Japan's Welfare State, 1990 - 1999"
Paul TALCOTT, Emory University, USA

"Income re-distribution through the Health Service System for the Elderly in Japan"
SHIBUYA Hiroshi and NEGISHI Takehiro, Hokusei Gakuen University, Japan

"Social Insurance System in China"
Yinhua SHA, NLI Research Institute, Japan

"Housing Finance System in Japan and the U.S."
IMURA Shinya

Questions and Comments
AKIYAMA Yoshinori, Shiga University, Japan
TANAKA Nobuyuki, ISS, University of Tokyo, Japan

15:30 - 16:00

Break

16:00 - 17:30

Session 3: Next Step for Our Research

Chairperson:
UCHIYAMA Akira, Ritsumei University, Japan
ONO Arito, Fuji Research Institute Corporation, Japan

"Reconsidering Fiscal Policy of Welfare State under the Pax Americana"
HIGUCHI Hitoshi, Shinshu University, Japan

Questions and Comments
Gregory W. NOBLE, ISS, University of Tokyo, Japan
ARAMAKI Kenji, Ministry of Finance, Kyoto University, Japan

18:00 - 19:30

Reception

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