A Comprehensive Study of Children’s Programs by Buddhists in the Showa Period
Applied Research Division
Pioneering Research Grant (Joint)
A Comprehensive Study of Children’s Programs by Buddhists in the Showa Period
FY 2025
Principal Investigator
Makoto Nakane (Professor, Ryukoku University Junior College)
Co-Investigators
Megumi Sakai (Professor, Ryukoku University Junior College)
Daigo Sasaki (Professor, Ryukoku University Junior College)
Yoshitetsu Hirokawa (Associate Professor, Ryukoku University Junior College)
Research Type
Joint Research
Overview
This research aims to clarify the state of children’s programs by Buddhists during the Showa period. Specifically, it will examine the relationships, balance, and priorities amongst three aspects of these programs: religious instruction in childcare, child protection, and youth guidance; educational activities; and social work. In addition, it seeks to reveal the true nature of gender-based divisions of labor and role-sharing among those involved in these activities. Note that activities aimed at children, such as religious instruction and moral training, education, protection, and welfare, are known to have been integrated. Accordingly, the concept of “children’s programs by Buddhists” is deliberately used here as an umbrella term.