This book provides a comprehensive appraisal of social security in Japan, where traditionally the burden of welfare provision has been the main responsibility of the family and employers, rather than the state. However, an ageing population, changes in family structure and continued recession...

The purposes of this paper are to describe the behaviors of consumers and producers in the knowledge creation process and derive the optimal strategy for increasing the value of creativity in the market. This paper mathematically models the incentives that consumers have to contribute to...