History of Lending Systems for Well-being in Post-War Japan: Historical Sociology of Financial Inclusion

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K17238
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Bukkyo University
• Principal Investigator: Yohei Kadosaki 佛教大学, 研究推進部, 特別研究員 (10706675)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 生活福祉資金貸付 / 世帯更生資金貸付 / 民生委員 / 金融包摂

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research project, I examine the history and problems of lending systems for well-being in Japan. I aim to clarify the possibility and limits of financial inclusion policy as social inclusion policy. Main results of this research project are follows: (1)“Lending system for rehabilitating livelihood of household" is established for extending target group from war-affected population to almost needy population;（2）Although this lending system provide many service for needy's financial needs, this system fall to satisfy their needs due to lack of knowledge of multiple debt problems and lack of collaboration with other social security systems

Free Research Field

社会福祉学