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Questions to Professor Frank at the Symposium Michitaka Otani PAGE  PAGE 11 It is my great honor and pleasure to have this opportunity to address some questions to Professor Frank. I would first like to thank Professor Frank and the organizers of this symposium for providing me with this opportunity. Of the many works by Professor Frank, I was particularly impressed by The Wounded Storyteller, from which I gained significant inspiration. Today, however, I would like to ask a few questions based on my own experiences. In The Wounded Storyteller, Professor Frank discusses the benefit of storytelling, stating that the act of storytelling is both a moral and an ethical practice. Through storytelling, ill people can draw a “new destination and map” for navigating a path through the life that remains to them. By doing so, ill people can find the meaning of their life and accept their destiny or contingency in life. In short, I understand that wounded people’s storytelling is an attempt and a step designed to lead to a better life. Moreover, Professor Frank notes that storytelling good not only the storytellers, but also their listeners. When ill people tell their self-stories to others, by expressing the suffering in their lives in order to share it with others, the storytellers can present to others good models for living. Listeners, on the other hand, can receive the “boon” that the storytellers gained through their suffering by reaching the state referred to as “dyadic bodies.” Through the act of storytelling, wounded people can open their bodies to others and link them with others. This bond between storytellers and listeners enables both parties to share in the boon. This is why storytelling is considered to be a moral and ethical practice. This is my understanding of Professor Frank’s work. Since I am studying the victims of crime, particularly the bereaved families of crime victims, I would like to ask Professor Frank a few questions concerning the problems