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The Failure of Civil Society?

The Failure of Civil Society?

By Ogawa, Akihiro

Published by State University of New York Press

English 289 pages 2009
Estimated reading time: 5 h 18 min
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A look at the voluntary sector in Japan, which has emerged strongly only in recent years. Winner of the 2010 Japan NPO Research Association Book Award The global discourse on civil society is both complicated and enriched in this participant study of Japan's volunteers, known as the third sector. In the wake of the Japanese government's failed response to the 1995 earthquake, volunteers took the lead in providing aid to victims. This recent sea change in Japanese society was quickly followed by the 1998 NPO Law (nonprofit organization law) that encourages third sector activities. Drawing on his fieldwork at one of the new NPOs, Akihiro Ogawa explores in detail the social and historical particularities of Japanese "civil society" or shimin shakai, revisiting how the concept is interpreted and practiced by the volunteers themselves. Civil society, Ogawa argues, can best be understood as an active, dynamic process rather than as a static, abstract model.

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