Hitotsubashi University

This article is an English translation of the script “福祉改革の実験場 ― 比較の中の日本型福祉国家” submitted at the international symposium “Past, Present and Future of the Welfare State” (jointly organized by the Institute of Political Science at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Hitotsubashi University) in Beijing on August 29, 2017. The Chinese version of this script “福利改革試験田 ― 従比較的視点考察日本型福利国家”, translated by 李暁魁, was published in 《福利国家的過去、現在与未来》（中国社会科学出版社） in October 2018.