著者
片岡 優子
出版者
関西学院大学
雑誌
Human Welfare : HW (ISSN:18832733)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.19-31, 2009-03

Taneaki Hara was the pioneer of prison reform and rehabilitation of ex-convicts in Japan. The purpose of this study is to clarify his achievements in child abuse prevention, and the significance and the influence of his activities on future generations. Hara was interested about child-rearing since he worked as a prison chaplain. He contributed the article to "KIRISTOKYO SHIMBUN" in 1892 and emphasized the importance of rearing orphans, and equally pointed out the need for adequate child-rearing in mainstream families. The event that led to Hara's engagement in child protection was when he was appointed as the Tokyo District Committee Member of the Okayama Orphanage in 1899. Hara initially got involved in child abuse prevention activities in 1909. The reason why he got started child abuse prevention activities was marked by one day when he was unable to overlook a newspaper article on child abuse. Moreover, he noticed the fact that there were a significant number of prisoners who had been illtreated as children. Hara shared his works on child abuse protection in magazines and through lectures. His work led to the establishment of Child Abuse Prevention Law of 1933 which Hara appealed for necessity of child abuse prevention and the maintenance of the law. Hara's child abuse prevention activities led him to be remembered as the pioneer of the protecting child abuse and neglect in Japan.
著者
杉野 昭博 Akihiro Sugino
雑誌
Human Welfare : HW (ISSN:18832733)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.2, no.1, pp.49-50, 2010-03-10
著者
今井 小の実
出版者
関西学院大学
雑誌
Human Welfare : HW (ISSN:18832733)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.5-18, 2009-03

The "Houmen Iin "was a quasi-(professional) social work system providing the Japanese public with assistance before the Second World War. The "Houmen Iin "System which was established in Osaka prefecture in 1918 was modeled on the "Elberfelder System" (1853-) of Elberfeld city (now, a part of Wuppertal city) in Germany. In the system the proto-case-workers were respected and had a public mandate but unpaid. The system had a big effect reducing expenses for poor relief, so public welfare in Germany came to use this system widely. But gradually the limitation of the amateur was pointed out and the system was remade in Strasbourg in 1906; the new system combined care and public surveillance. It was called the "Strasbourg System" and was further developed and adjusted to the conditions of rapid urbanization. The significance of this system is that it had both worker volunteers and paid staff, and increasingly trained employees. In Japan citizens also paid attention to the "Strasbourg System" , but the "Houmen Iin "System was established by law at the beginning of the Showa period. I aim, as a first step in my research, to make a clear why the "Elberfelder System" was chosen but not the "Strasbourg System" in Japan.