2002 年 7 巻 p. 105-117
This paper discusses the role assignment of the public sector and the private sector in the social welfare of postwar Japan. In the welfare legislations under the postwar occupation, the following principles regulated the relationship between the public sector and the private sector. (1) Operational responsibility assumed by the state and prohibition of delegation to other agencies. (2) Separation of the field and financial administration between a public sector and a private sector. (3) Prohibition of public-funds expenditure for private social work not under the control of public authority. In the Japanese situation, private social work was commissioned to execute governmental office work, and public funds were concentrated on private social work under the control of the authorities. Such a transition changed previous principles and brought about a public-private relation peculiar to Japan. This Japanese public-private relation played a role in restraining public support regarding private social entreprises for welfare services at home.