Empirical Studies of Japanese Contemporary Networks

一年来的研究成果如下：1.信教研究小组向信教的所有灵媒(拥有灵性力量的人)发出了一份调查问卷，约有800人，其中约500人已完成退还。通过问卷调查，我们能够获得关于雷诺莎的第一手资料，他们是这个宗教团体磁力来源SESHIN(通过雷诺莎的力量客观观察一个人的自我)背后的力量。到目前为止，还需要对这一数据进行充分的分析，但尽管如此，年长的几代人加入这一宗教的动机是不同的，他们往往因为被剥夺的感觉而加入，而年轻一代往往出于相反的原因加入，即缺乏被剥夺的感觉。然而，在任何一种情况下，人们都发现，更多地沉浸在信女恩的信仰中，导致了信徒…的重建更多的是世俗的道德规范。研究本赞寺的小组对Ko(一个促进追求宗教信仰的小型协会小组)的成员进行了多次调查。研究发现，Ko人在活动中相对独立于寺庙，他们的特征之一是由参加Ko的中年男子维持的社会网络。在民族网络研究小组中，对日本朝鲜族亲属团体协会--观山金石社会协会的成员进行了调查。这些数据表明，在日本的韩国人的新种族是对他们传统上保持的地区性和血缘关系进行战略性重新解释的产物。对日本华裔的研究基于前一年从京都万福寺富藤寺协会获得的调查数据，通过进行个人访谈，同时寻求对支持保持华裔族群的机制的解释。这是通过审查京东闽南社区的形成过程来进行的。在过去的一年里，上述研究的目的是通过审查在当今后现代社会背景下宗教和族裔群体中发现的传统元素重新激活的程度，掌握现代日本网络的综合图景。较少

The results of research conducted over the past year are as follows.1. The shinnyo-en research group sent out a questionnaire to all Reinosha (a person who possesses spiritual powers, a medium) in the Shinnyo-en Religion, approximately 800, of which around 500 were returned completed. Through the questionnaire we were able to obtain first hand data on Reinosha who are the force behind the source of this religious group's magnetism, sesshin (the objective observation of a reflection of one's self through the powers of a Reinosha). As yet sufficient analysis of this data has to be carried out but, nevertheless, a difference in motivation for joining the religion was found between the elder generations, who had a tendency to join because of a feeling of deprivation, whereas younger generations tended to join for the opposite reason, a lack of a feeling of deprivation. However, in either case, it was found that greater immersion in Shinnyo-en's beliefs led to a reconstruction of the believ … More er's mundane ethics.2. The group studying Honzanji Temple, conducted a number of surveys addressed to members of ko (a small association group formed promote pursuit of religious beliefs). It was found that the ko are relatively independent of the temple in their activities and that one of their features is the social network maintained by middle aged men participating in the ko.3. In the Ethnic Networks research group, a survey on members of Kozan Kinshi (Kwansan kimshi) Social Association, an association of Korean kinship group in Japan, was conducted. The data suggests that the newly evolving ethnicity of the Koreans in Japan is the product of a strategic re-interpretation of the regionalties and consanguinity they have traditionally maintained.4. Research on persons of Chinese descent in Japan expanded on survey data obtained from the Kyoto Manpukuji Temple Futosho Association the year before, by conducting individual interviews whilst also pursuing an explanation of the mechanism which supports the maintenance of Chinese ethnicity. This was carried out by examining the process involved in the formation of the Fukien community in Kyoto.5. The aim of the above research, during this past year, was to grasp a composite picture of modern Japanese networks by examining the extent of a re-activation of the traditional elements found in religions and ethnic groups within the context of post-modern society of today. Less