Protecting the Weak

Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

• Institutionalization
• “Modernities”

Related Discourses, Practices, and Institutions in Japan and China

• Norms and Ethics
• Social-Darwinism
• State and Society
• Social Welfare
• Philanthropy and Charity

Empirical Studies in Historical Perspective

• Disaster Victims
• Cultural Heritage
• Employee Well-Being
• Animal Welfare