Abstract
In this paper, I consider how a person may subjectivize their transformation from a bystander to a peace activist by looking at the life history of M, a woman born and raised in Okinawa. After her mother's death, M felt that peace activity, which until then had been her mother's domain, should be the subject with which she should be concerned as a subject. Since M had no language with which to tell of "the self as a peace activist", she reflected her process of becoming a peace activist onto her mother's life. By converting her own negative experiences into positive experiences, and sympathizing with the experiences of others, and connecting them to form a "story", she constructed a self which "does not give up easily." Moreover, when her history was compared with that of her brother Y, it emerged that each of them had started their peace activity, by using family experiences as a resource.
