Abstract
I was in Okushiri Island when the Great Earthquake happened in July 1993,and I was also in Yubari county during the Great burst accident in a coal mine ten years ago. There were many children born without fathers because a hundred coal miners died. However the women of Yubari and Okushiri counties who suffered bereavement appeared not to feel too much loneliness, partly as a result of the strong emphasis these cultures place on family cohesion which offered the new mothers great social support. 1) I compared Yubari(Country) with Sapporo(City) for patients with climacteric syndrome(N = 64,30) , and for women giving birth(N = 1288,4775). The women in Yubari in both of the above categories were younger than in Sapporo City significantly. 2) The grief care cases(N = 38) were more stressful and more psychosomatic than other cases. 3) I had one case of a woman from Hakodate when the Great Earthquake happened about thirty years ago giving birth whose delivery pains suddenly disappeared. It was suggested that this was due to an increase of plasma adrenaline, a chemical which in our previou study hasbeen shown to exist in higher lebels in women who's husband are absentduring child birth.
