Is Japan the mirror-image of Denmark, and why?(<Special Issue>Work-family life and social investment in care for children and elderly : Denmark and Japan)

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This paper tries to contrast the livelihood security system (hereafter LSS) of Japan with that of Denmark in some crucial aspects, based on the comments I gave regarding Prof. Greve's speech in the Panel Session on 'Care Services as Social Investment; Denmark and Japan' at the 124^<th> Conference of the Society for the Study of Social Policy, held on 27th May 2012. It first clarifies LSS as a theoretical framework, and then presents international comparisons of some aspects of employment performance, situations of redistribution by the government, and governance (total effects) of LSS. In place of concluding remarks, it poses some questions to be further considered and explored.