The following is a list of resources on health policy in Japan. While most resources are available in English only, some are available in both English and Japanese.
| Main topic | Year | Title | Author/Editor | Publisher | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overview | 2008 | The Art of Balance in Health Policy: Maintaining Japan’s Low-Cost, Egalitarian System | Campbell, John Creighton; Ikegami, Naoki | Cambridge University Press, 1998 | English |
| Overview | 1999 | Health care reform in Japan: the virtues of muddling through | Ikegami, Naoki; Campbell, John Creighton | Health Affairs, May 1999, Vol 18, No 356-75 | English |
| Overview | 2004 | Japan’s Health Care System: Containing Costs And Attempting Reform | Ikegami, Naoki; Campbell, John Creighton | Health Affairs, May 2004, Vol 23, No 326-36 | English |
| Overview | 2008 | The Challenge of Reforming Japan's Health System | McKinsey & Company | McKinsey & Company | English |
| Overview | 2009 | Health Care Abroad: Japan | Arnquist, Sarah | NY Times , 25 August 2009 | English |
| Overview | 2009 | Japan: Health system review | Tatara, Kozo; Okamoto, Etsuji | Health Systems in Review, 2009; Vol. 11 No. 5: 1-164 | English |
| Overview | 2010 | Health Systems Institutional Characteristics: A Survey of 29 OECD Countries | Paris, Valérie; Devaux, Marion; Wei, Lihan | OECD Publishing, 28 April 2010, No 50, Pages 141 | English |
| Overview | 2011 | 50 years of pursuing a healthy society in Japan | Reich, Michael R; Ikegami, Naoki; Shibuya, Kenji; Takemi, Keizo | The Lancet, 17 September 2011, Volume 378, Issue 9796, Pages 1051–1053 | English; available in Japanese |
| Overview | 2011 | Japan: universal health care at 50 years | The Lancet | The Lancet, 17 September 2011, Volume 378, Issue 9796, Page 1049 | English; available in Japanese |
| Overview | 2011 | Japanese universal health coverage: evolution, achievements, and challenges | Ikegami, Naoki et al. | The Lancet, 17 September 2011, Volume 378, Issue 9796, Pages 1106 - 1115 | English; available in Japanese |
| Overview | 2011 | The value of the National Health and Nutrition Survey in Japan | Sasaki, Satoshi | The Lancet, 1 October 2011, Volume 378, Issue 9798, Pages 1205 - 1206 | English; available in Japanese |
| Overview | 2011 | Re-invigorating Japan's commitment to global health: challenges and opportunities | Llano, Rayden et al. | The Lancet, 1 October 2011, Volume 378, Issue 9798, Pages 1255 - 1264 | English; available in Japanese |
| Overview | 2012 | Characteristics of Japan’s Healthcare Systems and the Problems | Uetsuka, Yoshio | JMAJ, 2012, Vol55, No 4, 330–333 | English |
| Overview | 2012 | Science and consensus for health policy making in Japan | Mori, Rintaro; Takemi, Keizo; Fineberg, Harvey | The Lancet, 7 January 2012, Volume 379, Issue 9810, Pages 12 - 13 | English; available in Japanese |
| Overview | 2012 | Health Service Delivery Profile Japan | WHO; Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan | WHO | English |
| Overview | 2013 | International Profiles of Health Care Systems | Thomson, Sarah; Osborn, Robin; Squires, David; Miraya, Jun | Commonwealth Fund, 14 November 2013 | English |
| Overview | 2013 | Health Care Lessons from Japan | Esmail, Nadeem | Fraser Institute, April 2013 | English |
| Overview | 2014 | Universal Health Coverage for Inclusive and Sustainable Development: Lessons from Japan | Ikegami, Naoki; ed | World Bank Group, 25 September 2014, Vol 1, No 1 | English; available in Japanese |
| Overview | 2014 | Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2014 | OECD, WHO | OECD Publishing, 2014 | English |
| Overview | 2015 | OECD Reviews of Health Care Quality: Japan 2015 | OECD | OECD (2015), OECD Reviews of Health Care Quality: Japan 2015: Raising Standards, OECD Publishing, Paris. | English; summary available in Japanese |
| Pharmaceuticals and medical devices | 1992 | Japan's Dark Side to Progress: The Struggle for Justice for Pharmaceutical Victims of Japan'sPost War Economic Boom | Spilker, Bert | JAMA, 5 August 1992, Vol 268, No 5, 659-660 | English |
| Resources for health | 1992 | Geographic distribution of physicians in Japan | Kobayashi, Y; Takaki, H | The Lancet, 5 December 1992, Vol. 340 No. 8832 pp 1391-1393 | English |
| Ageing | 1994 | Health care expenditures for the elderly and reforms in the health care system in Japan | Kobayashi, Yasuki | Health Policy, 29 September 1994, Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 197–208, | English |
| Ageing | 1997 | Public Long-term Care Insurance in Japan | Ikegami, Naoki | JAMA, 22 October 1997, Vol 278, No 16, 1310-1314 | English |
| Women | 1999 | Oral Contraceptives and Women's Health inJapan | Goto, Aya; Reich, Michael R; Aitken, Iain | JAMA, 8 December 1999, Vol 282, No 22, 2173-2177 | English |
| Ageing | 2000 | Long-term care insurance comes to Japan | Campbell, John Creighton; Ikegami, Naoki | Health Affairs, May 2000, Vol19, No 326-39 | English |
| Women | 2000 | Causes of Maternal Mortality in Japan | Nagaya, Ken et al. | JAMA, 24 May 2000, Vol 283, No 20, 2661-2667 | English |
| Women | 2000 | Where Should Women Deliver Babies in Japan? | Ikegami, Naoki; Yoshimura, Yasunori | JAMA, 24 May 2000, Vol 283, No 20, 2712-2714 | English |
| Legislation | 2001 | Medical Malpractice and Legal Resolution Systems in Japan | Nakajima, Kazue; Keyes, Catherine; Kuroyanagi, Tatsuo; Tatara, Kozo | JAMA, 28 March 2001, Vol 285, No 12, 1632-1640 | English |
| Financing | 2002 | Individual income, income distribution, and self rated health in Japan: cross sectional analysis of nationally representative sample | Shibuya, Kenji; Hashimoto, Hideki; Yano, Eiji | BMJ, 5 January 2002, 324:16 | English |
| Pharmaceuticals and medical devices | 2003 | Prices And Availability Of Pharmaceuticals: Evidence From Nine Countries | Danzon, Patricia M; Furukawa, Michael F | Health Affairs, October 2003 | English |
| Quality | 2003 | How can we improve the quality of health care in Japan?: Learning from JCQHC Hospital Accreditation | Hirose, Masahiro; Imanaka, Yuichi; Ishizaki, Tatsuro; Evans, Edward | Health Policy, October 2003, Volume 66, Issue 1, Pages 29–49 | English |
| Policy makers and players | 2003 | Unwritten history of Japan Medical Association | Mizuno, H | Soshisha, Japan 2003; 11-12 | English |
| Policy makers and players | 2005 | The iron triangle of Japan's health care: The Japan Medical Association is losing its grip on healthcare policy | Kondo, James | BMJ, 8 Jan 2005, 330 (7482), 55-56 | English |
| Quality | 2007 | Risk of authoritarianism: fibrinogen-transmitted hepatitis C in Japan | Yasunaga, Hideo | The Lancet, 15 December 2007, Vol. 370 No. 9604 pp 2063-2067 | English |
| Financing | 2008 | Economic recession and health inequalities in Japan: analysis with a national sample, 1986–2001 | Kondo, N; Subramanian, S; Kawachi, I; Takeda, Y; Yamagata, Z. | J Epidemiol Community Health, October 2008, 62:869-875 | English |
| Crossnational comparisons | 2010 | Lessons From Public Long-Term Care Insurance In Germany And Japan | Campbell, John Creighton; Ikegami, Naoki; Gibson, Mary Jo | Health Affairs, January 2010, Vol 29, No 1, 87-95 | English |
| Crossnational comparisons | 2011 | Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine: The United States, France, and Japan | Sessions, Samuel Y | JAMA, 1 June 2011, Vol 305, No 21, 2231-2232 | English |
| Overview | 2011 | Why is Japanese life expectancy so high? | Murray, Christopher JL | The Lancet, 24 September 2011, Volume 378, No 9797, Pages 1124 - 1125 | English; available in Japanese |
| Resources for health | 2011 | Education for health professionals in Japan—time to change | Ban, Nobutaro; Fetters, Michael D | The Lancet, 1 October 2011, Volume 378, No 9798, Pages 1206 - 1207 | English; available in Japanese |
| Overview | 2011 | What has made the population of Japan healthy? | Ikeda, Nayu et al. | The Lancet, 17 September 2011, Volume 378, Issue 9796, Pages 1094 - 1105 | English; available in Japanese |
| Financing | 2011 | Cost containment and quality of care in Japan: is there a trade-off? | Hashimoto, Hideki et al. | The Lancet, 24 September 2011, Volume 378, Issue 9797, Pages 1174 - 1182 | English; available in Japanese |
| Insurance | 2011 | Population ageing and wellbeing: lessons from Japan's long-term care insurance policy | Tamiya, Nanako et al. | The Lancet, 24 September 2011, Volume 378, Issue 9797, Pages 1183 - 1192 | English; available in Japanese |
| Sustanability | 2011 | Future of Japan's system of good health at low cost with equity: beyond universal coverage | Shibuya, Kenji et al. | The Lancet, 1 October 2011, Volume 378, Issue 9798, Pages 1265 - 1273 | English; available in Japanese |
| Financing | 2012 | In Japan, All-Payer Rate Setting Under Tight Government Control Has Proved To Be An Effective Approach To Containing Costs | Ikegami, Naoki; Anderson, Gerard F. | Health Affairs, May 2012, Vol 31, No 5, 1049-1056 | English |
| Mental health | 2012 | Suicide in Japan | Motohashi, Yutaka | The Lancet, 7 April 2012, Volume 379, Issue 9823, Pages 1282 - 1283 | English; available in Japanese |
| Policy process | 2013 | 3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan | Samuels, Richard J | Cornell University Press; 1 edition, 2 April 2013 | English |
| Overview | 2015 | The Future of Japan's Health System — Sustaining Good Health with Equity at Low Cost | Reich, Michael R; Shibuya, Kenji | N Engl J Med 2015; 373:1793-1797 November 5, 2015 | English |
| Resources for health | 2015 | Foreign Help Wanted: Easing Japan’s Labor Shortages | Ganelli, Giovanni; Miake, Naoko | International Monetary Fund, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, JEL Classification Numbers: J00; J20; J61 | English |
