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Japan’s Fureai Kippu Time-banking in Elderly Care: Origins, Development, Challenges and Impact
by Mayumi Hayashi. Japan’s Fureai Kippu (‘Ticket for a Caring Relationship’) is targeted at providing care for older people through exchanges of time credits. This has attracted increasing attention as a potential contribution to the ‘Big Society’ with an ageing population. However, there is little empirical research on this system. This article, using historical analysis and empirical evidence, seeks to address these gaps by examining the origins of Fureai Kippu, its early expansion, post-2000 slowdown and responses.
CC Coupon Circulation and Shopkeepers’ Behaviour: A Case Study of the City of Musashino, Tokyo, Japan
July 8, 2012
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Ken-ichi Kurita, Yoshihisa Miyazaki and Makoto Nishibe: This article introduces the history of community currencies in Japan, and examines the successes and remaining problems of the community currency coupons which are currently gaining such popularity.
What Have Complementary Currencies in Japan Really Achieved?
May 29, 2012
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Japan has been regarded from abroad as one of the most developed countries in terms of CC systems, depicted by Kennedy and Lietaer (2004) as “the country in the world with the most systems in operation today, but also the nation with the greatest diversity of such experiments.” However, this paper argues that the lack […]
Complementary Currency Innovation: Self-guarantee in peer-to-peer currencies
May 23, 2012
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The WAT system, as used in Japan, allows for businesses to issue their own tickets (IOUs) which can circulate as a complementary currency within a community. This paper proposes a variation on that model, where the issuer of a ticket can offer a guarantee, in the form of some goods or services. The difference in […]
Complementary Currencies in Japan Today: History, Originality and Relevance
May 23, 2012
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Since 1995 the number of experiments with complementary currencies in Japan has exploded. Not only is Japan the country in the world with the most systems in operation today, but also the nation with the greatest diversity of such experiments. The aim of this paper is to bring to light the strata of the heterogeneous […]
August 16, 2012
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