ABSTRACT

Psychological relief work tends to impose its own method on the victims and, as a result, sometimes causes more confusion and stress than relief. In the case of the Jogan earthquake, or the 869 Sanriku earthquakes that occurred almost in the same place and with the same power as that in 2011, the Gion festival in Kyoto started as an answer to this earthquake. The Association of Jungian Analysts Japan (AJAJ) and the Japanese Association for Sandplay Therapy (JAST) set up a joint working committee for the psychological relief work. Activism is opposed to such an idea of politics, and tries to work from the bottom up, actively and individually using network. The chapter identifies a person who was originally from Tohoku region and tries to get a financial support from the government within the framework of the mentioned project.