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The Japanese Experience in Social Security: Overview


�� Development of Japan's Social Security Policies

1. Social Security System in the Prewar Days
   
2. Emergency Relief and Rebuilding of the Foundation in the Postwar Days (1945-1954)
   
3. Growth of Economy and Accomplishment of Universal Medical Insurance and Pension Programs (1955-1964)
   
4. High Economic Growth and Expansion of the Social Security Systems (1965-1974)
   
5. Shift to Stable Growth and Reexamination of the Social Security Systems(1975-1989)
   
6. Structural Reform of the Social Security Programs for an Aged Society with Fewer Children (1990-Present)
   
7. Facing an Age of Globalization
   

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• This document is a part of the pre-publication copy of the report whose published version was submitted to the East Asian Ministerial Meeting on Caring Societies,December 5, 1996.
  
• In the report, "social security" refers to various policy areas of health and welfare, such as public health, income security, social welfare services, etc.
  

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