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

2002年7月，我们在东京举行了一次联合会议，讨论“二战后佛教社会福利团体的历史和现状的综合研究”，今年是该项目的最后一年，也是第三年。在那次会议上，我们每个人在做最后报告时，在本届会议期间做了几次临时报告，以确定基本事项和共同事项。具体来说，我们做了报告，并讨论了以下几个方面：（1）战后各佛教流派和社会福利领域的走向;（2）整个报告的内容构成和每一项目的命名。本报告分为两部分。在第一部分，“战后宗教社会福利团体及其问题”，在第二部分，“战后社会福利各个领域的历史和问题”。“我们在第一和第二章中使用了相同的时间段。我们将整个时期分为4组（从二战后到现在），第一组，从二战后到重建。第二部分是高增长时期，第三部分是从低增长时期到泡沫经济时期，第四部分是后泡沫时代到现在。在这个参照系中，我们分别就第一部分和第二部分中的每一个主题进行了写作。本文试图通过对日本佛教的社会福利和活动的梳理，以及寺庙的福利活动和佛教徒的成就。(The除此之外，我们还补充和替换了《战后佛教社会福利年表》（报告见A4，第494页）和《佛教社会福利事业和活动数据一览》中的其他基本数据。“（报告载于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).