The Japan Association for Social Policy Studies (JASPS) has recently published the first issue of the JASPS Bulletin, a digital journal published in English.
http://jasps.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/JASPS_Bulletin01.pdf

JASPS 136th (2018 Spring) Conference Program and Abstracts

JASPS 135th (2017 Autumn) Conference Program and Abstracts

JASPS 134th (2017 Spring) Conference Program and Abstracts

JASPS 133th (2016 Autumn) Conference Program and Abstracts

Japan Association for Social Policy Studies (JASPS) 134th (2017 Spring) Biannual Conference: Call for Papers

We invite ESPAnet members to present papers at the JASPS 134th Biannual Conference to be held in Tokyo on June 3-4 2017.  The conference will be held at Meisei University in Tokyo.

JASPS is one of the oldest academic associations in Japan in the areas of labor/industrial relations and social policy studies, and started exchanges of scholars with ESPAnet from 2013.  The JASPS 130th Biannual Conference in June 2015 organized two exchange sessions of JASPS-ESPAnet, and four papers by ESPAnet members were presented.

We are planning to organize JASPS-ESPAnet exchange sessions in the JASPS 2017 spring conference (June 3-4).  In these sessions (planned to be held on June 4), all papers will be presented and discussed in English, and a relatively small numbers of presenters (both from ESPAnet and JASPS) will exchange opinions and comments based on presented papers.

For detail, please see this pdf file.

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JASPS 132th (2016 Spring) Conference Program and Abstracts

Please download program and abstracts PDF files of JASPS 130th Biannual Conference by clicking the links below.

131 Program

131 Plenary Sessions (abstract)

131 Book Review Session

131 Symposium Sessions (abstract)

131 General Sessions (abstract)

Session 1. Sustainability of welfare states

Chair: Yasuhiro Kamimura (Nagoya University)　
Discussant: Naoko Soma (Yokohama National University)　
　
　１．“Social citizenship as a balance between welfare rights and needs: in search of a theoretical framework for Asian welfare systems”
　　Ijin Hong (Sungshin Women’s University, Korea)　　<Download (password required)>

　２．“Familism, care and gender in Southern Europe and East Asia”　
　　Margarita Estévez-Abe (Syracuse University, United States of America) and Manuela Naldini (University of Torino, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy)　
　　<Please contact tokoro[at]life.osaka-cu.ac.jp (replace [at] to @) if you need a full paper.>　

　３．“New direction of the social policy – Spiral theory of social policy”　
　　Kazuo Takada (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)　　

Session2-1. Re-discovering social protection and security beyond crisis　

Chair: Akira Suzuki (Hosei University), Yoko Tanaka (University of Tsukuba)　
Discussant: Takashi Suganuma (Rikkyo University) (papers 1 and 2)　
　
　１．“Euro crisis as a discovery device. The politicization of European integration”　
　　Martin Heidenreich (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany)　　<Download (password required)>

　２．“The stability of social security in the United States: A positive strain of
classical liberalism”
　　Kenzo Yoshida (Matsuyama University, Japan)　　<Download (password required)>

Session2-2.Re-discovering social protection and security beyond crisis　

Chair: Akira Suzuki (Hosei University), Yoko Tanaka (University of Tsukuba) 　
Discussant: Mutsuko Takahashi (Kibi International University) (papers 3 and 4)　
　
　３．“Dualisation, labour market reform and youth unemployment in Spain:
　Prospects for a job-rich recovery” 
　　Ana Marta Guillén and Rodolfo Gutiérrez (University of Oviedo, Spain)　　<Download (password required)>

　４．“Why are there so few homeless females in Japan?”　
　　Keiko Kawahara and Yuko Suda (Toyo University, Japan)　　<Download (password required)>

# Sessions in Japanese from here.