This book discusses the building of comprehensive community support systems, which constitutes a key issue in social security reforms in Japan. The book comprises three parts: (I) Mapping Social Security in Japan, (II) Community-Based Integrated Care Systems in Japan, and (III) A Prospect of Community-Based Inclusive Society in Japan. The chapters in this book were composed on the basis of research into community-based integrated care systems and community-based inclusive society, conducted by members of the Association of Japanese Geographers' Study Group "Regional Issues Related to the Birthrate Decline and Population Aging." Choosing local governments with different regional characteristics, the authors conducted empirical research to uncover the characteristics of comprehensive community support systems, building processes, and challenges in the respective local governments. Non-Japanese readers will acquire an understanding of the characteristics of social security and the trendsof the reforms in Japan. To support its use as a reference book, chapters in Part I include numerous maps and figures with the themes of welfare, medical care, and health levels in Japan.

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Hitoshi Miyazawa is an associate professor in the Human Science Division, Faculty of Core Research of Ochanomizu University, Japan. He is currently a visiting associate professor in the Open University of Japan. He holds a Ph.D. in geography from Tokyo Metropolitan University. His specialties are welfare geography, urban geography, and GIS. His research interests are provision of welfare services and health care services, transformation of urban demographic structure, urban sustainability, and liveability. He has published several books in the field of welfare geography.

He is the chief editor of E-journal GEO, a director of the Association of Japanese Geographers, and a councillor of the Tohoku Geographical Association. He has received the Young Researchers Award of the Association of Japanese Geographers (2004). In addition, he won the Special Award of the Japan Cartographers Association (2010) as a co-investigator.

Teruo Hatakeyama is an associate professor at the Naruto University of Education, Japan. He is a director of the Institute for Public Policy in Tokushima Prefecture and a researcher of the Institute for Public Policy in Kanagawa Prefecture. He holds a Ph.D. in science from Nihon University. His specialties are social geography and administrative geography. His research interests are elderly welfare, the long-term care insurance system, naming rights for public facilities, and local governance.

He is a representative of the Association of Japanese Geographers. He is also the chief founder of Regional Issues Related to the Birthrate Decline and Population Aging of the Association of Japanese Geographers. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Japan Association of Economic Geographers and journals of the Japan Association of Regional Policy, and the Geographical Association of Nihon University.

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Part I Mapping Social Security in Japan1. Welfare Regime in Japan and Recent Social Security Reform Hitoshi Miyazawa2. Temporal Changes and Regional Differences in Demographic Structure and Health in Japan Masakazu Yamauchi and Tomoya Hanibuchi3. Nursing Care Provision Systems for Elderly People and Geographical Distribution of Services in Japan Teruo Hatakeyama, Shin'ichiro Sugiura and Hitoshi Miyazawa4. Medical Care Provision System and Geographical Distribution of Medical Resources in Japan Tsutomu Nakamura, Kazumasa Hanaoka and Hitoshi Miyazawa5. Securing of Health, Medical, and Welfare Personnel and the Geographical Distribution in Japan Hiroyasu Kamo and Akihito Nakajo
Part II Community-based Integrated Care Systems in Japan6. Regional Variation in the Community-based Integrated Care Systems in Japan Teruo Hatakeyama and Hitoshi Miyazawa7. Community-based Integrated Care Systems in Municipalities Having One Comprehensive Community Support Center Tsutomu Nakamura and Teruo Hatakeyama8. Community-based Integrated Care Systems in Municipalities Having Sub-branchs of Comprehensive Community Support Centers Teruo Hatakeyama, Shin'ichiro Sugiura and Hitoshi Miyazawa9. Community-based Integrated Care Systems in Municipalities Having Multiple Comprehensive Community Support Centers Teruo Hatakeyama10. Regeneration of Housing Estates by the Community-based Integrated Care Systems Yoshimichi Yui, Hitoshi Miyazawa, Yoshiki Wakabayashi and Thang Leng Leng11. Integrated Care Systems Established to Strengthen Community Disaster Resilience Hitoshi Miyazawa and Haruko Kikuchi
Part III A Prospect of Community-based Inclusive Society in Japan12. Establishing Community-based Integrated Sup-port Systems for Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Childcare in Japan: Focusing on Regional differences Hitoshi Miyazawa and Kanoko Tada13. Creation of Social Ties for Prevention of Isolation of Elderly Public Assistance Recipients: The Case of a Project for the Provision of A Place of One's Own in Nishinari Ward, Osaka City Nanami Inada14. Current Situation and Challenges of Inclusive Care: An Investigation of the Community-based Inclusive Station Program in Saga Prefecture Mikoto Kukimoto15. Formation of Comprehensive Community Welfare Bases in Urban Areas Ryo Koizumi, Teruo Hatakeyama and Hitoshi Miyazawa16. Development of Community Welfare Activities with Resident Participation and Their Importance in Hilly and Mountainous Areas Akihito Nakajo