The general study on the history and the present situation of social welfare by buddhist groups after WW II.

今年是我们项目的最后一年，也就是第三年，我们于2002年7月在东京举行了一次联席会议，主题是“佛教社会福利团体关于二战后历史和现状的一般研究”。在那次会议上，在作最后报告时，我们每个人在本届会议期间都作了几次临时报告，以确认基本事项和共同项目。具体地说，我们作了报告，讨论了以下内容：(1)各佛教流派和社会福利领域的战后走向；(2)整个报告的内容构成和各项目的命名。报告正文如下。报告分为两个部分。第一部分是“战后宗教社会福利团体的问题”，第二部分是“战后历史和各个社会福利领域的问题”。我们在第一次世界大战和第二次世界大战中使用相同的时间段，我们将整个时期分为四组(从第二次世界大战后到现在)，第一组，从第二次世界大战后的紧接到重建。II是经济高增长的术语，III是从经济低增长到泡沫经济的术语，IV是后泡沫时代到现在。在这个参照系中，我们每个人都写下了第一部分和第二部分中的每个主题，我们被分配到这个框架中。我们试图弄清楚日本佛教发展了什么样的社会福利和活动，寺庙做了什么福利活动，佛教徒取得了什么成就。同时，我们在《战后佛教社会福利年表》(报告A4，pp494)和《佛教社会福利机构和活动数据概览》中的统计数据中，增加和替换了这些工作之外的其他基本数据。(报告为A4，第184页)。

This year was the final, third year of our project, "The general study on the history and the present situation by Buddhist social welfare groups after WW II", on which theme we had a joint meeting, in July 2002 in Tokyo. At that meeting, in making a final report, each of us made interim reports a couple of times during this session to confirm basic matters and common items. Specifically, we made reports and discussed the followings : (1)the post-war direction of various Buddhist schools and spheres of social welfare, (2)the formation of contents and the naming of each item in whole reports.The body of the reports is as follows. The report is divided into 2 parts. In part I, "the post-war and issues of religious social welfare groups," and in part II, "post-war history and issues for each sphere of social welfare." We use the same period of time in both I and II.We divided the whole period into 4 groups (between right after WW II and the present), I, from the immediate post-WW II to reconstruction. II, the term of high economic growth, III, from the term of low economic growth to the bubble economy, IV, the post-bubble era to the present.In this frame of reference each of us wrote on each topics in both part I and II, to which we are assigned. We tried to make it clear what kind of social welfare and activities Japanese buddhism developed, and the welfare activities that temples did and buddhists achievements. (The report is A4, pp256).At the same time, beside these works, we added and replaced other basic data to the statistics contended in "Post-war Buddhist Social Welfare Chronology", (The report is A4, pp494) and "Buddhist Social Welfare Establishments and Activities Data At A Glance." (The report is A4, pp184).