日本における生命保険の歴史

我一直在继续撰写关于日本人寿保险史的手稿。我对互助或互助的论述如何在这一更大的商品化和治理过程中发挥作用变得特别感兴趣。人寿保险经常把自己描绘成前现代日本的“KO”或前现代韩国的KYE的现代继承者。然而，对于互助应该如何发挥作用以及在多大程度上发挥作用，总是存在争议。例如，在该行业的早期阶段，关于共同公司或股票公司是否代表着保护消费者的最佳手段，存在着一场激烈的辩论。在殖民地和战时国营邮政人寿保险制度的形成过程中，这些争论仍在继续。

I have continued to develop my book manuscript on the history of life insurance in Japan. I have become particularly interested in how discourses of mutual assistance or mutual aid functioned within this larger process of commodifying and governing. Life insurance often presents itself as a modern successor to the "ko" of premodern Japan or the kye of premodern Korea. Yet, there are always debates about how and to what degree mutual assistance is supposed to function. In the industries’ early period, for example, there is a significant debate about whether mutual or stock companies represent the best means of protecting consumers. These debates continue in the formation of the state-run postal life insurance system, in the colonies, and during the wartime period.