2022 Volume 62 Issue 4 Pages 1-16
This study aims to inspect the birth of the law that served as the foundation of “welfare” administration by clarifying an enactment of the military relief law established in July, 1917. Given that such establishment of the law enabled the relief sector and became the initial opening of the social work administration, this recognition has been shared conventionally but concrete inspection has not been carried out. This study examines the military relief law was established by expectation of Ministry of the Department of the Interior, by comparing a bill (August, 1916) of the Department of the Army and a bill (May, 1917) of the Department of the Interior. The Department of the Army showed resistance to four kinds of relief operation and the commission to a private group until the last. Thus, the Department of the Interior establishes the policy and clarifies that the accomplishment of the purpose by an enforcement order is the important element for post-war welfare administration.
