2005.4/7

I travelled Croatia, Bosnia, and Hungary for the last couple of weeks.

The main purpose of this trip is to complete my 3-year research in the war survivors' Sense of Coherence,
granted by Mental Health Okamoto Foundation in Japan. In Croatia, I interviewed and casually talked to the
medical and health professionals there and discussed about the opportunities to have cooperative projects
in the future. As a researcher in the health sociology, I hate to do researcher's research; I would love to
make some movement using the results after the research would be completed, so I was very happy when I
felt passions and beautiful minds in the people whom I interviewed with. My current plan and mission is to
do health promotion with International Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims (IRCT) in Zagreb and
Coalition for Work with Psychotrauma and Peace (CWWPP) in Vukovar. I was also pleased to be
interviewed by the Croatian newspaper in Vukovar, because it must be the evidence of the interest
about our activities of the people in Croatia.

The belows are photos in Croatia and Bosnia, and the fur belows are the messages and photos in Hungary.


　with Dr. Zdenka Pantic,
　psychologist from IRCT
 with Mr.T. Paunovic, mayor 
　of Kostajnica (right) and Mr.
　V. Iksic, principal of
　elementary school
　
　view in Kostajica (- the
　town close to the border
　of Bosnia)
　Dr. Pantic discussing with
　Ms. M. Ljubicic, the
　organizer of community
　health promotion

　with Ms. Valentina Z
　Bozovic, the
　administrator from IRCT
　at the Center for Peace,
　Legal Advice and
　Psychosocial Assistance in
　Vukovar. (from left: Mr.
　Simic, Mr. Mikic)
　with Dr. Charles D Tauber
　(head of the mission: left)
　and Mr. Robert Strk, the
　administrative assistant
　from CWWPP
　with two Sasa-s from
　CWWPP! Right is Mr. Sasa
　Bjelanovic, the
　administrative assistant.
war remindful views in Vukovar


I visited Hungary after Croatia, in order to interview Dr. Fulop Marta, clinical psychologist, who has done
comparative cultural research of Japan and Hungary. As you might have known, Hungary has the highest
suicide rate among OECD countries and Japan has the next highest rate. The core purpose of the interview
was to find out the theoretical inferences of reasoning this reality. My findings from her interview will be
reported in the Japanese magagine called Japanese Journal of Public Health Nurses.

The belows are photos from Hungary.

　Above:Dr. Fulop Marta
　Right: Front-
　Dr. Fulop's husband.		 　At the restaurant that played the notorious
　 "Hungarian Suicide Song" called "Gloomy Sunday"		 　views in Budapest



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