2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
General Study on the Social Transition and the Reestablishment of the Housing System in Japan
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16530034
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Social law
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
SATO Iwao The University of Tokyo, Institute of Social Science, Professor, 社会科学研究所, 教授 (80154037)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ADACHI Motohiro Wakayama University, Faculty of Economics, Associate Professor, 経済学部, 助教授 (30283948)
TAKEGAWA Shogo The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Humanity and Sociology, Professor, 大学院・人文社会系研究科, 教授 (40197281)
TERAO Hitoshi Niigata University, Faculty of Engineering, Associate Professor, 工学部, 助教授 (70242386)
HIRAYAMA Yosuke Kobe University, Faculty of Human Development, Professor, 発達科学部, 教授 (70212173)
MATSUMOTO Nobuko Otsuma Woman University, Faculty of Social Information, Associate Professor, 社会情報学部, 助教授 (90183954)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Keywords | housing system / welfare regime / recession in the 1990s / aging society / decline in the fertility rate / housing policy |
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| Research Abstract |
1. This interdisciplinary study about the Japanese housing system has investigated the change of the Japanese housing system in and after 1990s in Japan relating to the transition of the social and economic system as whole and proposed the possible direction of the reestablishment of a new housing system.
2. Housing systems not only provide housing, but are also deeply embedded in a wider economy and social structure. The Japanese system for housing in the post-war period has been focused on constructing a 'social mainstream'. The core of society has consisted of middle-class families who live in privately owned housing. However, conditions surrounding housing are unsettled. The housing system has been restructured after the 1990s due to an increasingly uncertain economy, drastic change of the demographic conditions, social fragmentation and a new series of deregulation-oriented public policies. In this situation, the housing condition of Japanese people has become very unstable during the decade. The rapid increase in homeless people is one example which reflects this change.
3. To respond to this change of socio-economic condition and to secure the housing for Japanese people, it is not realistic and also not desirable to reproduce the housing system focusing on the traditional social mainstream (the middle-class families who live in privately owned housing). The future housing policy should be constructed in the line which secures the multiple life styles and the choice of wide variety of housing tenure to each Japanese people.
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Research Products
(14 results)
