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Author : Kōichi Hasegawa
Publisher :
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Daniel P. Aldrich
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801458250
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 2016-02-04 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 : K. Hirata
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230109160
Total Pages : 208 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 208 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 : Polina Ivanova
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000911659
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Civil Society and International Students in Japan written by Polina Ivanova and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 173 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 the 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 and migration studies as well as organizers of CSOs and faculty of international higher education institutions.
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 : Simon Andrew Avenell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520262700
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Making Japanese Citizens written by Simon Andrew Avenell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Japanese Citizens is an expansive history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial role in shaping civil society and civic thought in postwar Japan. Weaving his analysis around the concept of shimin (citizen), Simon Andrew Avenell traces the development of a new vision of citizenship based on political participation, self-reliance, popular nationalism, and commitment to daily life. This rich portrayal of activists and their ideas illuminates questions of democracy, citizenship, and political participation not only in contemporary Japan but also, more generally, in other industrialized nations. --
Author : Robert J. Pekkanen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190050993
Total Pages : 1001 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics written by Robert J. Pekkanen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Book Abstract and Keywords: The study of Japanese politics has flourished over the past several decades. This Handbook provides a state-of-the-field overview for students and researchers of Japanese. The volume also serves to introduce Japanese politics to readers less familiar with Japan. In addition, the volume has a theme of "evaluating Japan's democracy." Taken as a whole, the volume provides a positive evaluation of the state of Japan's democracy. The volume is divided into two parts, roughly corresponding to domestic Japanese politics and Japan's international politics. Within the domestic politics part, there are four distinct sections: "Domestic Political Actors and Institutions," covering the Japanese Constitution, electoral systems, prime minister, Diet, bureaucracy, judiciary, and local government; "Political Parties and Coalitions," covering the Liberal Democratic Party, coalition government, Kōmeitō, and the political opposition; "Policymaking and the Public," covering the policymaking process, public opinion, civil society, and populism; and, "Political Economy and Social Policy," covering industrial, energy, social welfare, agricultural, monetary, and immigration policies, as well as social inequality. In the international relations part, there are four sections: "International Relations Frameworks," covering grand strategy, international organizations, and international status; "International Political Economy," covering trade, finance, foreign direct investment, the environment, economic regionalism, and the linkage between security and economics; "International Security," covering remilitarization, global and regional security multilateralism, nuclear nonproliferation, naval power, space security, and cybersecurity; and, "Foreign Relations" covering Japan's relations with the United States, China, South Korea, ASEAN, India, the European Union, and Russia. Keywords: international relations, comparative politics, democracy, international order, alliances, space security, elections, Liberal Democratic Party, multilateralism, remilitarization, international organizations, populism, civil society, coalitions, political parties, trade, finance monetary policy, foreign direct investment, cybersecurity"--
Author : André Sorensen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134143184
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Living Cities in Japan written by André Sorensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last fifteen years local citizens' movements have spread rapidly throughout Japan. Created with the aim of improving the quality of the local environment, and of environmental management processes, such activities are widely referred to as machizukuri, and represent an important development in local politics and urban management in Japan. This volume examines the growth and nature of such civil society participation in local urban and environmental governance, raising important questions about the changing roles of and relations between central and local government, and between citizens and the state, in managing shared spaces. The machizukuri processes studied here can be seen as the focus of an important emerging trend toward increased civic participation in managing processes of urban change in Japan. The contributors provide a comprehensive overview of the machizukuri phenomenon through examination not only of theory and history, but also of case studies illustrating real changes in the institutions of place making and neighbourhood governance. Living Cities in Japan will be of particular value to readers interested in social, urban, geographical and environmental studies.
Author : Robert Pekkanen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Japan's Dual Civil Society written by Robert Pekkanen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 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 : 西出優子
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784861631054
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Social Capital and Civil Society in Japan written by 西出優子 and published by . This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about social capital--social relationships such as trust, norms and networks that facilitate cooperation among members of a community. Based on a thorough review of the concept of social capital, it discusses trend of social capital in Japan from a civil society perspective, in particular, emerging nonprofit organizations as well as some aspect of traditional neighborhood associations. Nonprofit organizations, which voluntarily have been trying to solve social problems and to create new social values, have an important role in creating social capital. Nonprofits in Japan have successfully created, accumulated and utilized social capital in various fields. The role of nonprofits and various actors in community in creating and utilizing social capital in policy and practice are also discussed. It gives a reader an opportunity to reconsider the Japanese society from a social capital perspective, and to think how to revitalize trust and connections amon! g people and community for their well-being and invigorating civil society.
Author : Mary Alice Haddad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107378982
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Building Democracy in Japan written by Mary Alice Haddad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is democracy made real? How does an undemocratic country create new institutions and transform its polity such that democratic values and practices become integral parts of its political culture? These are some of the most pressing questions of our times, and they are the central inquiry of Building Democracy in Japan. Using the Japanese experience as starting point, this book develops a new approach to the study of democratization that examines state-society interactions as a country adjusts its existing political culture to accommodate new democratic values, institutions and practices. With reference to the country's history, the book focuses on how democracy is experienced in contemporary Japan, highlighting the important role of generational change in facilitating both gradual adjustments as well as dramatic transformation in Japanese politics.
Author : Brian J. McVeigh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136222529
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book The Nature of the Japanese State written by Brian J. McVeigh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian J. McVeigh uses a unique anthropological approach to step outside flawed stereotypes of Japanese society and really engage in the current debate over the role of bureaucracy in Japanese politics. To many in the West, Japan appears as a paradox: a rational, high-tech economic superpower and yet at the same time a deeply ritualistic and ceremonial society. This adventurous new study demonstrates how these nominally conflicting impressions of Japan can be reconciled and a greater understanding of the state achieved.
Author : Takemasa Ando
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135087385
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Japan's New Left Movements written by Takemasa Ando and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident that followed the March 2011 tsunami and earthquake in Japan shocked the world. In the wake the of the disaster, questions were asked as to why Japanese antinuclear movements were not able to prevent those with vested interests, such as businesses, bureaucrats, the media and academics, from facilitating nuclear energy policies? Taking this question as its starting point, this book looks more widely at the development and powerlessness of Japanese civil society, and seeks to untangle this intersection between social movements and civil society in postwar Japan. Central to this book are the Japanese New Left movements that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, and the impact they have had on civil society and politics. By focusing on a key idea that a wide range of new leftists shared – the self-revolution in ‘everydayness’ – Takemasa Ando shows how these groups did not seek immediate change in the realms of politics and legislation, but rather, it was believed that personal transformation would lead to broader social and political change. By reconsidering the relationship between Japanese New Left movements of the 1960s and later social movements, this book crucially connects the constructive and disruptive legacies of the movements, and in doing so provides valuable insights into the powerlessness that plagues Japanese civil society today. Presenting a comprehensive picture of the New Left movements and their legacies in Japan, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars working in the fields of Japanese politics, Japanese history, and Japanese culture and society.
Author : 山本正
Publisher :
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.
