| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Many in the U.S. and Europe are aware of the self-help group Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). AA, a mutual aid movement which anyone who wishes to stop drinking can join, is organized and managed by its members. Its history began when it was founded by two alcoholics in the U.S. in 1935. As the name of this group suggests, the members remain anonymous, particularly in public media. Responding to AA's program and tradition, a great variety of spinoff self-help groups for alcoholics and their family members have appeared in different cultures, each of them having developed in accordance with their respective social systems. Danshukai is one of these, which has developed in Japan. The remarkable and definitive difference is that Danshukai abandoned anonymity deliberately. In this project, the transformation of its role is explored in the context of Japanese society, which faces social problems such as the increased risk of suicides, and weakening local community networks.
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