Voices from Tohoku: 3.11 Oral Narrative Archive

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26285116
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Sophia University
• Principal Investigator: Slater David 上智大学, 国際教養学部, 教授 (70296888)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 伊藤 毅 上智大学, 国際教養学部, 准教授 (10646863) ; FAHY Sandra 上智大学, 国際教養学部, 准教授 (70726702) ; 猿谷 弘江 上智大学, 総合人間科学部, 准教授 (80726076) ; 木村 護郎クリストフ 上智大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (90348839) ; 野宮 大志郎 上智大学, 総合グローバル学部, 教授 (20256085)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: digital humanities / oral narrative / disaster / archive

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Over the course of 4 years, we have achieved far more than we had imagined possible. Data collection: with more than 500 hours of digital interview data from Tohoku, we are the largest interview database on the 3.11 disasters inside Japan or outside. This is digitally collected and make available to all interested scholars. We’ve also developed a way to make important part of this data available to a wider audience through our completely open Community Website, Voices from Tohoku (https://tohokukaranokoe.org/).
Methodologically, we’ve made significant innovation on the model of "Digital Humanities," operationalized our work to develop a model of “Digital Social Science,” bringing digital tools and approaches to the approach of live subjects on topics ranging from anti-nuke protesters, homelessness and refugees in Japan.

Free Research Field

Digital Social Science of Oral Narrative