| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Many school children fell victim to the Great East Japan Earthquake; however, at public schools, where religious activities are prohibited, religious ritual based memorial services could not be conducted. Consequently, this leads us to ask, how are disaster related deaths accepted in society? To answer this question, I conducted a fact-finding survey of schools that issued diplomas to pupils that were disaster victims. The result was that in many cases the schools, which ranged from kindergarten to high school, and not the bereaved families, proposed the conferring of diplomas to deceased pupils. Further, in accords with folk beliefs the year for conferring the diploma correlated with the presupposed aging after death of the school children.
Additionally, as a comparison, I conducted fieldwork among the indigenous people of Guatemala and learned that there is ritual for children, who are commonly thought to be closer to God.
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