Intercultural Experience, Charity, and Coexistence in Providing Emergency Aid in the Aftermath of the Tohoku Earthquake : A Study Focusing on Islamic NGO Humanity First and the Survivors

ヒガシニホン　ダイシンサイ　シエン　ニ　ミル　イブンカ　コウリュウ　ジゼン　キョウセイ　イスラームケイ　NGO　ヒューマニティ　ファースト　ト　ヒサイシャ　タチ

ミネサキ, ヒロコ

Minesaki, Hiroko

シュウキョウ ト シャカイ コウケン ケンキュウカイ

慈善

異文化交流

イスラーム

アフマディーヤ

Emergency Aid

Charity

Intercultural experience

Islam

Ahmadiyya

This paper aims to elucidate the value of emergency aid provided in the aftermathof the Tohoku Earthquake by HumanIty First, an Islamic NOO whose members reside in Japan. The aid is evaluated on the basis of the following characteristics: involvement and empowerment. Humanity First was established in 1995 by Ahmadiyya, a new Islamic religious community originally founded in 1889, in British India. This paper is a case study of the Minato elementary school evacuation site at Ishinomaki and is based on cultural anthropological fieldwork conducted from May 2012 to the present. The paper explores Japanese quake survivors' narratives to determine their perceptions of Muslims in the special circumstances of the evacuation center, as well as presenting concrete examples of "co-existence" in the that context.