This is a brief interim report of my ongoing research, the purpose of which is to analyze healthcare reform under the new Japanese government from a comparative perspective. Today, like many developed nations in the world, Japan is facing a variety of serious healthcare problems in the face of...

Westernizing medicine -- Reacting to deteriorating health -- Improving people's health for war -- Reforming health care with the United States -- Achieving universal health insurance -- Consolidating universal health insurance -- Making universal health insurance survive -- Japanese health care...