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1. Rashomon: the Japanese welfare state in a comparative perspective;2. Structural logics of welfare politics; 3. Historical patterns ofstructural logic in postwar Japan; 4. The rise of the Japanese socialprotection system in the 1950s; 5. Economic growth and Japan's selectivewelfare expansion; 6. Institutional complemetarities and the Japanese welfarecapitalism; 7. The emergence of trouble in the 1970s; n8. Policy shifts inthe 1990s: the emergence of European-style welfare politics; 9. The end ofJapan's social protection as we know it: becoming like Britain?