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In contemporary advanced democracies, including Japan, there are growing concerns on the issues of multiculturalism (MC) and basic income (BI) among scholars and policy stakeholders. On the one hand, MC has been widely discussed in most Western democracies since the late 1980s, and Japan has followed a similar path since the late 1990s due to increased global mobility in a period of serious population decline (Kymlicka 1995; Peng-Er 2005). On the other hand, an income guarantee has been one of the most important topics for political debate in Japan and in most other advanced countries since the early 2000s, when these countries began to replace the welfare state system with the neoliberal laissez-faire market systems (Iida 2003). During this neoliberal reform process, many writers began to argue that BI might be one viable option for alleviating the evils of growing inequality that results from neoliberal market competition.
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Iida, F. (2014). The Tensions between Multiculturalism and Basic Income in Japan. In: Vanderborght, Y., Yamamori, T. (eds) Basic Income in Japan. Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137348081_11
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