Religious and Cultural Studies of the War Dead

从2000年到2003年，我们已经进行了三年的研究。的.本项目名为“战争死者的宗教和文化研究”，目的是研究与战争死者有关的宗教信仰和日本文化是如何形成的，以及它们是如何构建到现在的。我们的目标是调查战争死难者的追悼仪式或安魂祈祷，收集有关战争死难者的民间传说，研究靖国神社等宗教机构和战争死难者纪念馆。为了实现这一目标，我们组织了一个名为“战争死难者的下落”的工作室，在三年内举行了12次追悼会。除了负责人之外，许多研究合作者以及大坂大学的学者和研究生参加了这些研讨会。此外，本研究被日本宗教与社会研究协会改编为研究项目，在邀请学术界成员参加研讨会后，我们得到了许多参与者。在这次研讨会上，我们不仅邀请了指定的演讲者，还邀请了其他大学的学者和大坂大学的研究生进行演讲或发言，以便促进不同大学研究人员之间的交流。我们还认为，我们为年轻研究人员的培训和研究生教育体系的发展做出了贡献。

We have carried out this research for three years, from 2000 to 2003. The. purpose of this project, entitled "Religious and Cultural Studies of the War Dead", is to research how religious beliefs and Japanese culture connected with the war dead were formed and how they have been constructed until now. Our aims are to examine memorial services or requiem prayers for the war dead, to collect folklore about the war dead and to research religious institutions such as the Yasukuni Shrine and memorials for those killed during the war.ln order to carry this out, we organized a workshop named "Whereabouts of the war dead", and held 12 seminarars in three years. On top of a person in charge, many research co-operators as well as scholars and graduate students from Osaka University took part in these workshops. In addition, this research was adapted as a research project by Japanese Association for Study of Religion and Society, and after asking for the participation of the academy members in the workshop, we got many participants. In this workshop, we requested presentatios or remarks from not only an assigned-presenter but also scholars from other universities and graduate students in Osaka University so that we could boost exchanges among researchers in different universities. We also believe that we contributed to the training of young researchers and the development of the graduate education System.