Transformation of East Asian International System and Development of Japan's Medical Insurance Systems, the 1920s through the 1950s

• Project/Area Number: 23530722
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: SUGITA Yoneyuki 大阪大学, 言語文化研究科(研究院), 教授 (00216318)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
• Budget Amount: ¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
• Keywords: 健康保険 / 国民健康保険 / 日米同盟 / 安全保障 / アジア太平洋 / 日米関係 / 福祉国家 / 社会保障 / 医療保険 / 社会福祉 / 社会保障・社会福祉政策 / 国際関係 / 社会保険 / 医療政策 / 国債研究者交流ドイツ / 国際情報交換アメリカ / 健康保険制度 / 国民健康保険制度 / 東アジア国際関係 / ワシントン体制

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I have tried to combine international relations with welfare study. Structural changes in the world-system significantly affected the establishment and development of Health Insurance and National Health Insurance in Japan. Here is one of the research achievements. Yoneyuki Sugita ed., Japan Viewed from Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, forthcoming). Yoneyuki Sugita, "'Fairness' and Japanese Government Subsidies for Sickness Insurances," Japan Studies Review (forthcoming)

Research Products

• [Journal Article] The Beveridge Report and Japan (2014)
  • Author(s): Ｙｏｎｅｙｕｋｉ Ｓｕｇｉｔａ
  • Journal Title: Social Work in Public Health Volume: 29:1 Pages: 148-161
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Japan’s epoch-making health-insurance reforms, 1937-1945 (2013)
  • Author(s): 杉田 米行
  • Journal Title: Japan Forum Volume: 25(1) Issue: 1 Pages: 112-133
  • DOI: 10.1080/09555803.2012.741141
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] The Beveridge Report and Japan (2013)
  • Author(s): Yoneyuki Sugita
  • Journal Title: Social Work in Public Health Volume: Vol. 28 Issue: 2 Pages: 148-161
  • DOI: 10.1080/19371918.2013.775883
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] THE 1922 JAPANESE HEALTH INSURANCE LAW: TOWARD A CORPORATIST FRAMEWORK (2012)
  • Author(s): Yoneyuki Sugita
  • Journal Title: Harvard Asia Quarterly Volume: Vol. XIV, No. 4 Pages: 36-43
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] The Beveridge Report and Japan (2012)
  • Author(s): Yoneyuki Sugita
  • Journal Title: Social Work in Public Health Volume: 近刊（査読合格済み）
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Re-interpretation of the Yoshida Doctrine (2014)
  • Author(s): Yoneyuki Sugita
  • Organizer: Osaka University International Symposium
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪大学（大阪府箕面市）
  • Year and Date: 2014-12-19 – 2014-12-21
• [Presentation] Should Japan Revise Article Nine? (2014)
  • Author(s): Yoneyuki Sugita
  • Organizer: 20th Annual Japan Studies Association Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Tokai International College, Honolulu（アメリカ）
• [Presentation] Japanese Health Insurance Programs and the World, 1922 to 1950 (2012)
  • Author(s): Yoneyuki Sugita
  • Organizer: Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences(招待講演)
  • Place of Presentation: Columbia University (U.S.A.)
• [Presentation] Reinterpretation of the Significance of Japanese Health Insurance Programs from 1922 to 1950 (2011)
  • Author(s): Yoneyuki Sugita
  • Organizer: Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Transcultural Asian History(招待講演)
  • Place of Presentation: Universitat Heidelberg (Germany)
• [Presentation] 9.11 and Japan's Consistent Security Policies
  • Author(s): Yoneyuki Sugita
  • Organizer: Asian Studies Program, Florida International University
  • Place of Presentation: Florida International University(アメリカ）
• [Presentation] Keynote Presentation: Rise of Hybrid Norms in East Asia - Japan’s Security Policy in the 1950s
  • Author(s): Yoneyuki Sugita
  • Organizer: Symposium: Asia - from a Norm-Taker to a Norm-Maker?
  • Place of Presentation: the University of Turku, Finland
  • Invited
• [Book] Japan Viewed from Interdisciplinary Perspectives: History and Prospect (2015)
  • Author(s): Ｙｏｎｅｙｕｋｉ Ｓｕｇｉｔａ ｅｄ．
  • Total Pages: 300
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
• [Book] Toward a More Amicable Asia-Pacific Region:Japan’s Role (2015)
  • Author(s): Ｙｏｎｅｙｕｋｉ Ｓｕｇｉｔａ ｅｄ．
  • Total Pages: 290
  • Publisher: University Press of America
• [Book] アメリカを知るための18章―超大国を読み解く (2013)
  • Author(s): 杉田米行編
  • Total Pages: 218
  • Publisher: 大学教育出版
• [Book] Demilitarization in the Contemporary World (2013)
  • Author(s): Peter N. Stearns ed.
  • Total Pages: 272
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press