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http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/JKCA.2018.18.05.167

What Caused the Emergence of Ethnic Contents in Japanese Elderly Care Services? : Interaction between Ethnic Movement and Social Welfare Policy  

Lee, Hyunsun (미시간대학교 일본학연구소)
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The Journal of the Korea Contents Association / v.18, no.5, 2018 , pp. 167-174 More about this Journal
Abstract
Japanese state has continuously tried to adapt itself to the social demands coming from rapidly greying population. Japanese government introduced the new social insurance system of elderly care, i.e. Long term Care Insurance with epoch-making changes in the Japanese welfare system. The most important aspects of the new system can be summarised as follows: 1) social insurance system of obligatory entry with paying premiums and co-payment 2) emphasis on the customer choice, competition, flexibility, free-market, relaxation of the regulation. This characteristics brought unexpected results of the emergence of ethnicity-centred contents of welfare services. As a selling point in freemarket and as a countermeasures against expected ethnic disadvantages, the Korean ethnic organisations brought the ethnic elements resulting in the diversified Japanese welfare services.
Keywords
Long-term Care Insurance; Elderly Care; Ethnic Contents; Zainichi Korean;
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