The welfare regime in Japan

East Asian Welfare Regimes in Transition: From Confucianism to Globalisation

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 117-144

  Kono, Makoto ^a  

^a HYOGO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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