Introduction: To Understand the Health Insurance Policy Development in Japan
1. Westernizing Medicine
2. Reacting to Deteriorating Health
3. Improving People's Health for War
4. Reforming Health Care with the United States
5. Achieving Universal Health Insurance
6. Consolidating Universal Health Insurance
7. Making Universal Health Insurance Survive
8. Japanese Health Care in the Globalization Era
Conclusion: For the Future of Health Insurance Politics

Takakazu Yamagishi is Professor in the Department of Global Liberal Studies and Director of the Center for International Affairs at Nanzan University.