Takeshi Kasai: the health security thinker from Japan

Protecting the Nation from Health Security Threats

Events in the United States and internationally have shown the kinds of great stakes and consequences that often follow epidemics and disasters. Consider the series of health security shocks since 2001: National fear during the anthrax letters events, with impact on all 3 branches of the US government. The respiratory transmissible SARS and MERS viruses spreading via airplanes and hospitals, so...

Review of Article 89 of the Social Security Law from the perspective of the right to health

Abstract The amount and quality of use of medical services is the same for all levels of Social Security fund retirees. While some pay less for the same medical services and others a much higher cost. And this is while retirees are mainly dissatisfied with the two categories of livelihood and treatment, especially during the outbreak of emerging and widespread diseases such as coronavirus (COV...

The Unity of Kant’s Active Thinker

Financing Long-Term Care: Lessons From Japan

Long-term care (LTC) must be carefully delineated when expenditures are compared across countries because how LTC services are defined and delivered differ in each country. LTC’s objectives are to compensate for functional decline and mitigate the care burden of the family. Governments have tended to focus on the poor but Germany opted to make LTC universally available ...

The Changing US-Japan Security Alliance