Study on Cultural Property of War Disaster Records-For Tokashiki Village, Okinawa Prefecture

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19H01555
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 08010:Sociology-related
• Research Institution: Iwate University
• Principal Investigator: Mugikura Tetsu 岩手大学, 教育学部, 嘱託教授 (70200235)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 戦争文化財 / 戦争災害 / 集団自決 / 戦災犠牲死 / 集団強制死 / 災害検証 / 災害伝承 / 生命の格差

Outline of Final Research Achievements

As per the research plan, interviews were conducted with approximately 100 people who had experienced war. The research revealed the lives of war victims and the circumstances in which they were sacrificed, through the testimonies of those who experienced the war. There is no point in studying war without examining the sacrifices made in war. In this project, we were able to clarify the diversity of victims and the disparities in life. It can be said that the path has now been opened for research that preserves war sacrifices and deaths as war cultural assets.
The results of my research were written in five academic papers, one essay, described in the preface of an academic journal, presented at nine conferences, and was the topic of one conference roundtable. He also contributed as a cultural property committee member for Tokashiki Village.

Free Research Field

社会学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

戦争における犠牲死を災害社会学の視点でとらえた。沖縄県渡嘉敷村における戦災死の検証を徹底した。これまでの犠牲死に関する調査は不十分であった。そこで、戦災死を防ぐ対策の欠如に由来する犠牲死の累積という観点から、実態解明をした。一般の戦争研究では、個々の死の検証の視点が脆弱で、戦災犠牲死を防止する対策へと到達しえない。
本課題では、戦争における死のリスクにおいて明確な格差が存在していること、日本において戦争で死ぬことを要請する文化的下地があり、権限の上位にある者も最後には死ぬ前提なので下位の者の生命を尊重することができない。一人ひとりの戦災犠牲死の記録と検証結果を文化財として継承する道筋を開いた。