Introduction: Poverty, Social Exclusion and the Welfare Society
1. Policies and poverty: poverty as a welfare policy bracket in post-War Japan and its meaning
2. Poverty as a result of exclusion - Tokyo's urban underclass
3. The distribution and dynamics of poverty looked at according to income (the fluctuations of poverty based on a panel survey)
4. Older women and housing poverty: their housing history in home-owning society
5. The interconnection between health and poverty: health and socio-economic well-being
6. The spatial spread of poverty in the megalopolis and the state of segregation, 1975-2000
7. Does the hi hogo class represent poor people in general?
8. Women, welfare policies and poverty: Poverty and shelter among homeless women
9. Poverty and the social exclusion of single men: Perspectives on homeless men and their relationship with the welfare administration
10. Poverty and exclusion as it affects migrant workers from overseas: in terms of employment, housing and consumption
11. A jail without bars, the social world of the street dwellers
12. Improving poverty stricken areas: A rehabilitation project for Shima Danchi public housing