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Author : Makoto Imada
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Civil Society in Japan ; Aufsätze written by Makoto Imada and published by . This book was released on with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank J. Schwartz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521534628
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (346 download)
Download or read book The State of Civil Society in Japan written by Frank J. Schwartz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Author : Robert Pekkanen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804754293
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (542 download)
Download or read book Japan’s Dual Civil Society written by Robert Pekkanen and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan differs from other industrialized democracies in having many small, local groups but few large, professionally managed national organizations. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Japan's civil society and a new theory, based on political institutions, to explain why it has developed as it has.
Author : Henk Vinken
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441915044
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Civic Engagement in Contemporary Japan written by Henk Vinken and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civic engagement is a concept of action that has become part of common vocabulary, not only in the West but also in many other regions of the world as well. A growing, yet still small number of scholarly works has recently emerged showing how in Japan citizen activism, volunteering, and social action for a public cause are dev- oping. This present volume is another, and in my view, important addition to the body of knowledge on civic engagement in Japan. The majority of books on related issues in Japan take on the perspective of organized civic life, in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) or nonprofit organizations (NPOs): we know quite a number of things about the quantitative trends in these organizations, on their positioning, on their difficulties, and on the institutional contexts in which they have to work. We know relatively little – except for a small number of topical qualitative case studies – on broad issues that relate to civic engagement in Japan, inside or outside these formal organizations. This volume is the first to offer a wide scope of broad variety of forms of civic engagement in contemporary Japan. The volume is quite forceful in counterbalancing oversimplified ideas on an “ideal” civil society in which state, market, and civil society organizations are in- pendent and at best take on oppositional stances.
Author : Akihiro Ogawa
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791494039
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book The Failure of Civil Society? written by Akihiro Ogawa and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2009-03-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the voluntary sector in Japan, which has emerged strongly only in recent years.
Author : K. Hirata
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230109160
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Civil Society in Japan written by K. Hirata and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-08-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil Society and Japan's Foreign Aid examines the changing relations between the Japanese state and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in promoting effective aid policies and analyzes the changing nature of policy making and governance in Japan. It is based on extensive research in Southeast Asia and Japan, investigating the role of Japanese aid in fields such as education, health care, environmental protection, and economic development. It analyzes the key players in aid policymaking, including donor governments, multinational organizations, international and local NGOs, the business community, and aid recipients.
Author : Kōichi Hasegawa
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Constructing Civil Society in Japan written by Kōichi Hasegawa and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeff Kingston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134478275
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Japan's Quiet Transformation written by Jeff Kingston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1990s have been termed as 'Japan's lost decade' to describe how the phenomenal growth in the Japanese economy ground to a halt and the country was crippled by enormous and ongoing political, economic and social problems. In responding to these unprecedented difficulties, wide-ranging reforms have been adopted including NPO, information disclosure and judicial reform legislation. Controversially, this book argues that such reforms are creating a more robust civil society and demonstrate that Japan is far more dynamic than is generally recognized.
Author : 長谷川公一
Publisher : ISBS
ISBN 13 : 9781876843670
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Constructing Civil Society in Japan written by 長谷川公一 and published by ISBS. This book was released on 2004 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on four epoch-making case studies, this book offers an overview of contemporary Japan's changing attitudes and policies regarding environmental issues. Beginning in the 1970s, the author traces the way the rapid growth of environmental politics and actions contributed to the development of a vibrant civil society. It is argued that recent environmental movements in Japan have created a new, more active public sphere, one that provides a guideline for a sustainable society. This book represents an important contribution to the growing field of environmental sociology.
Author : Isa Ducke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134113439
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Civil Society and the Internet in Japan written by Isa Ducke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using case studies, interviews, and empirical sources, this book analyzes the strategies and impact of Internet use by civil society actors and asks how useful it is for their work – does the availability of Internet tools change the way citizens’ groups work, does it influence their effectiveness, and does it do so differently in Japan from other countries? Four fascinating studies take a closer look at the role of the Internet during the history textbook controversy; strategies of small citizen's groups; comparisons between internet use in Japan, Korea and Germany; and how the internet is used as a platform to discuss the dispatch of Japanese troops in Iraq. Isa Ducke has produced an original work that will be of interest to students and scholars of Japanese politics, media and information technology and civil society.
Author : Polina Ivanova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032332093
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Civil Society and International Students in Japan written by Polina Ivanova and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores encounters and interactions between international students and local civil society organizations (CSOs) in Japan. Based on results of a cross-case analysis, this study reveals the possibilities for international students in Japan of creating social capital in the short term in culturally and socially diverse groups. While a conventional approach sees universities as the main support providers, this research shows the role of local CSOs as alternative actors offering international student support. Unlike the long-standing paradigm viewing Japanese civil society as top-down and closely following the government, this book uncovers many decentralized and bottom-up organizational types. Furthermore, it highlights an active part taken by foreign staff and volunteers in Japanese CSOs, which challenges the guest-host dichotomy of the previous literature. Presenting a reconsidered insight into the role of international students and their interaction with CSOs in community building this book will appeal to students and scholars of Asian studies, migration studies as well as organizers of CSOs and faculty of international higher education institutions"--
Author : Daniel P. Aldrich
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801476224
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Site Fights written by Daniel P. Aldrich and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most vexing problems for governments is building controversial facilities that serve the needs of all citizens but have adverse consequences for host communities. Policymakers must decide not only where to locate often unwanted projects but also what methods to use when interacting with opposition groups. In Site Fights, Daniel P. Aldrich gathers quantitative evidence from close to five hundred municipalities across Japan to show that planners deliberately seek out acquiescent and unorganized communities for such facilities in order to minimize conflict. When protests arise over nuclear power plants, dams, and airports, agencies regularly rely on the coercive powers of the modern state, such as land expropriation and police repression. Only under pressure from civil society do policymakers move toward financial incentives and public relations campaigns. Through fieldwork and interviews with bureaucrats and activists, Aldrich illustrates these dynamics with case studies from Japan, France, and the United States. The incidents highlighted in Site Fights stress the importance of developing engaged civil society even in the absence of crisis, thereby making communities both less attractive to planners of controversial projects and more effective at resisting future threats.
Author : Jennifer Chan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804757812
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (578 download)
Download or read book Another Japan Is Possible written by Jennifer Chan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the emergence of internationally linked Japanese nongovernmental advocacy networks that have grown rapidly since the 1990s in the context of three conjunctural forces: neoliberalism, militarism, and nationalism. It connects three disparate literatureson the global justice movement, on Japanese civil society, and on global citizenship education. Through the narratives of fifty activists in eight overlapping issue areasglobal governance, labor, food sovereignty, peace, HIV/AIDS, gender, minority and human rights, and youthAnother Japan is Possible examines the genesis of these new social movements; their critiques of neoliberalism, militarism, and nationalism; their local, regional, and global connections; their relationships with the Japanese government; and their role in constructing a new identity of the Japanese as global citizens. Its purpose is to highlight the interactions between the global and the localthat is, how international human rights and global governance issues resonate within Japan and how, in turn, local alternatives are articulated by Japanese advocacy groupsand to analyze citizenship from a postnational and postmodern perspective.
Author : Robert J. Pekkanen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317754425
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Neighborhood Associations and Local Governance in Japan written by Robert J. Pekkanen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although local neighborhood associations are found in many countries, Japan’s are distinguished by their ubiquity, scope of activities, and very high participation rates, making them important for the study of society and politics. Most Japanese belong to one local neighborhood association or another, making them Japan’s most numerous civil society organization, and one that powerfully shapes governance outcomes in the country. And, they also often blur the state-society boundary, making them theoretically intriguing. Neighborhood Associations and Local Governance in Japan draws on a unique and novel body of empirical data derived from the first national survey of neighborhood associations carried out in 2007 and provides a multifaceted empirical portrait of Japan’s neighborhood associations. It examines how local associational structures affect the quality of local governance, and thus the quality of life for Japan’s citizens and residents, and illuminates the way in which these ambiguous associations can help us refine civil society theory and show how they contribute to governance. As well as outlining the key features of neighbourhood associations, the book goes on to examine in detail the way in which neighbourhood associations contribute to governance, in terms of social capital, networks with other community organizations, social service provision, cooperation with local governments and political participation. This book will be welcomed by students and scholars of Japanese politics, Japanese society, anthropology, urban studies as well as those interested in social capital and civil society.
Author : Geneve Eliza Menscher
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Is There Civil Society in Japan? written by Geneve Eliza Menscher and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keiko Hirata
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615423128
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Civil Society in Japan written by Keiko Hirata and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : 山本正
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Deciding the Public Good; Governance and Civil Society in Japan written by 山本正 and published by . This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing the dramatic growth of civil society around the world and the critical role it is playing in filling the space left by the state, the authors, longtime observers of the nature of Japanese governance, examine the role of civil society in the governance of Japanese society.
