Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
Ease of hiring/firing, collective-bargaining scope, minimum wage rigidity, temporary/permanent contract regulation.
The Health Insurance Act created compulsory sickness insurance for a large share of manual workers, funded through employer and employee contributions and implemented from 1927. Coverage remained partial and urban-industrial rather than universal, but the law established a durable social-insurance principle in Japan: wage earners in modern industry would be protected against illness through mandatory pooled schemes rather than relying only on household savings, employer discretion, or charitable aid.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.