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（Last updated : 2024-03-25 00:30:21）

SHIZUME Masato

Department / Course College of Social Sciences Department of Social Sciences

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Sociology
2.	Kinugasa Research Organization The institute of Humanities Human and Social Sciences

Academic background
1.	2020/09/25 Degree Acquisition	Ph.D. (in Social Welfare)
2.	1994/03/31 Degree Acquisition	M.A. (in Social Welfare)
3.	1992/03/31 Degree Acquisition	B.A. (in Sociology)

Business career
1.	1996/04/01 ～ 2004/03/31	Full-time Lecturer Associate Professor │ │ Hokusei Gakuen University Research Associate,
2.	2004/04/01 ～ 2009/03/31	Associate Professor │ Department of Contemporary Social Studies │ Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts
3.	2009/04/01	│ Department of Social Sciences │ Ritsumeikan University ,
4.	2010/10/01 ～ 2011/03/31	Visiting　fellow │ │ National Institute for Research Advancement,
5.	2013/09/01 ～ 2014/08/31	Visiting Professor │ │ University of Toronto, School of Public Policy & Governance

Research activities
1.		Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare
2.		Japanese Welfare Sociology Association
3.		Society for the Study of Social Policy
4.		International Sociological Association
5.		Social Policy Association(UK)
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Subject of research
1.	Public pension reform
2.	Old age poverty
3.	Japanease welfare regime

Research summary
1. Comparative research of public pension systems in OECD countries. 2. Analysis of public pension provision basing on functionalism, power resource theory, and new institutional theory. 3. Evaluation of public pension reform. 4. Minimum pension protection and basic income. 5. Analysis of Japanse welfare regime.

Present specialized field
Social Policy Studies (Keyword：Pension, De-commodification, New institutionalism, Basic Income)

Books
1.	2023/09	Welfare and Cooperation │ (Co-authored)
2.	2021/05	Learning to Enjoy Social Welfare: Creating a Society Where Everyone Can Live Like a Human Being │ (Co-authored)
3.	2021/01	Why an Unpopular Pension Reform was Enacted: An Analysis of the Reform Process, 1980-2016. │ (Sole-authored)
4.	2020/10	What to do about Japan's welfare policy? │ How can you do for social policy in Japan? │ (Co-authored)
5.	2020/10	Understanding Welfare Sociology │ (Co-authored)
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Papers
1.	2020/10/14	A corporate-centred conservative welfare regime: three-layered protection in Japan. │ Journal of Asian Public Policy │ 14 (1),pp.110-133 (Co-authored)
2.	2018/03	Model of Policy Change on Pension Retrenchment and Sustenance: 2012 and 2016 Pension Reforms. │ Kansai Journal of Social Welfare Studies │ (4),pp.17-29 (Sole-authored)
3.	2016/02	The Role of Policy Discourse and New Policy Idea on Pension Reform: An Essay as Research Frontier of Modern Welfare State Analysis │ THE QUARTERLY OF SOCIAL SECURITY RESEARCH(KIKAN SHAKAI HOSHO KENKYU) │ 51 (3・4),pp.318-336 (Sole-authored)
4.	2015/01	Policy Discourse, Framing, and The 2004 Pension Reform in　Japan: Rethinking Vice into Virtue Theory │ US-CHINA LAW REVIEW │ 12 (1),pp.1-21 (Sole-authored)
5.	2013/04	The Role of Ideas and Framing in 2004 Pension Reform │ Journal of Japan Pension Academy │ (32),pp.150-159 (Sole-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2023/12/08	Focal Points in Japan's 2025 Public Pension Reform: Focusing on unpopular reforms since the 2004 pension reform (Korea Pension Association, National Pension Research Institute, and Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, 2023 Joint Project Academic Conference)
2.	2022/06/24	The Japanese welfare state and COVID-19: A corporate-centered conservative welfare regime and path-dependent responses (The 18th Annual Conference of East Asian Social Policy Research Network (Transformation of Post-COVID Welfare States in East Asia: Byound Productivist Welfare Capitalism?))
3.	2022/05/14	COVID-19, Inequalities and Policy Responses: The Experience in Japan (The 2022 Social Welfare Association of Taiwan Annual Meeting and Conference)
4.	2021/08/28	An Analysis on Unpopular Pension Reform: Theory and Verification in the Institutional Retrenchment (The 16th International Conference on Social Security)
5.	2020/12/03	Corporate-centered Conservative Welfare Regime as Japanese Welfare model: A Unified Typology of Welfare and Production Regimes (International Sociological Association RC 19 Annual Meeting)
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Winning science prize
1.	2023/07/02	Japan Welfare Sociology Association The 7th Academic Prize
2.	2022/05/14	Japan Association for Social Policy Studies The 28th Promotion Award

Teaching achievements

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1.	2024/03/05	The Japanese Welfare Model And COVID-19: Inequalities and Policy Responses
2.	2023/03/02	A corporate-centred conservative welfare regime in Japan: COVID-19, Inequalities and Policy Responses
3.	2021/08/19	Disability Pensions and Welfare in Japan
4.	2013/02	What happens to a public pension?
5.	2010/12	Life plan for the aged:how to design a senior life.
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Department laboratory expense researcher number
50285508

researchmap Researcher code
1000209471

External Researcher ID
ORCID ID
0000-0001-9127-627X