IWATA Masami is a Japanese sociologist and Professor Emeritus at Japan Women's University. Her research interests include social welfare policy, poverty and social exclusion theory. She graduated from the Department of Social Welfare, Japan Women's University, in 1969 and obtained a PhD in Social Welfare in 1994. She worked at Osaka City University before going on to become Assistant Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1986, and Professor in 1994. She became Professor in Faculty of Human Sociology, Japan Women's University, in 1998.
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Poverty and Social Welfare in JapanIWATA Masami, NISHIZAWA Akihiko
Due to the chorus of admiration that recognizes...Due to the chorus of admiration that recognizes Japan having become the world's second largest economy in the latter half of the 20th century, the awareness of poverty in Japan has been concealed. ...
