This conference will take place at the Maison franco-japonaise in Tokyo. Two speakers will deal with the issue of the potential of a basic income in times of economic crisis, and in the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake in Japan.
Yannick Vanderborght (Professor of Political Science at Louvain University and Facultes Saint-Louis, Brussels, Belgium) will give a talk (in French, with consecutive translation into Japanese) entitled ‘Le revenu d’existence: une réponse adéquate aux crises et catastrophes?’. Fumio Iida (Professor of Political Theory at Kobe University, Japan) will talk about “Basic income: a Japanese version?” (in Japanese, with consecutive translation into French).
The conference is organized by Thierry Ribault (CNRS, Institut français de recherche sur le Japon, Maison franco-japonaise Tokyo), in cooperation with Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Scientific Research A, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Project Title: A Comparative Analysis of the Needs-Participation Oriented Welfare Systems in the Era of Aging Society. Chief Investigator: Yutaka Tejima, Professor of Medical Law, GraduateSchool of Law, Kobe University).
Practical details:
Saturday 28. January 2012 – 2PM-4.30PM, room 601
Further information (in French and Japanese) at https://www.mfj.gr.jp/agenda/2012/01/28/
Free access, but previous registration is required: contact@mfj.gr.jp
Working languages: French and Japanese, with consecutive translation
Address: 3-9-25, Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0013
