In order to clarify the introduction of home help services in Japan after World War II, this study explores Shuji Harasaki's interests and the itinerary of his visit, based on the diary he kept between September 19, 1953 and May 1, 1954, as well as papers and memoirs written before and after his return to Japan. In the 1950s, before the idea of social care in the community had become widespread in Japan, Harasaki devoted himself to observation study of social welfare in Western countries as a student of social welfare scholarship by the United Nations. A major component of his visit comprised the observation of home help services, and upon his return, Harasaki set out to improve the quality of life among recipients of social welfare services in Japan by changing people's way of thinking. Home care worker dispatch services, officially established in 1956, were initiated by Harasaki in order to realize a "creatively evolving society". The background of this experiment lay not only in the advanced welfare services Harasaki had observed in Western countries, but also in the creativity, originality and nationality that Western people exhibited in their daily lives.
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