Foundation of ILO, Japan’s Reaction and Fukuda Tokuzo

Abstract

The foundation of ILO in 100 years ago at the Peace Conference in Paris, and Japan’s labour policy, Fukuda’s activities, as well as Kawai’s, around 1919 and the early 1920s, will be examined. The Peace Treaty includes ‘Book 13 Labour’, i. e., Permanent organization of ILO and 9 General Principles, which was called the ‘Magna Carta for the workers’, and introduced by Fukuda into Japan, well examined by Kawai.

The International Labour Legislation Commission and its Japanese members like Oka Minoru, ILO impacts to the late-comer Japan, Labour representation problems, Article 17 of the Police Regulations, Labour Union Bills, and Social Bureau of the Home Ministry will be investigated in detail, while Fukuda and some other’s activities in these progressive years will be examined so as to shed a new light on them as legacies to the post-world war II Japan.