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ISBN: 0791493954 0791494039 1441607781 9781441607782 9780791493953 9780791494035 9780791493960 0791493962 Year: 2009 Publisher: Albany SUNY Press
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Winner of the 2010 Japan NPO Research Association Book AwardThe 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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Anthropology / Cultural --- Nonprofit organizations --- Civil society --- Non-governmental organizations --- Management --- Industrial Management --- Business & Economics --- Government policy --- INGOs (International agencies) --- International non-governmental organizations --- NGOs (International agencies) --- Nongovernmental organizations --- Organizations, Non-governmental (International agencies) --- Private and voluntary organizations (International agencies) --- PVOs (International agencies) --- Corporations, Nonprofit --- Non-profit organizations --- Non-profit sector --- Non-profits --- Nonprofit sector --- Nonprofits --- Not-for-profit organizations --- NPOs --- Organizations, Nonprofit --- Tax-exempt organizations --- International agencies --- Social contract --- Associations, institutions, etc.
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ISBN: 9781438457888 143845788X 9781438457871 1438457871 Year: 2015 Publisher: Albany
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Akihiro Ogawa explores Japan's recent embrace of lifelong learning as a means by which a neoliberal state deals with risk. Lifelong learning has been heavily promoted by Japan's policymakers, and statistics find one-third of Japanese people engaged in some form of these activities. Activities that increase abilities and improve health help manage the insecurity that comes with Japan's new economic order and increased income disparity. Ogawa notes that the state attempts to integrate the divided and polarized Japanese population through a newly imagined collectivity, atarashii kōkyō or the New Public Commons, a concept that attempts to redefine the boundaries of moral responsibility between the state and the individual, with greater emphasis on the virtues of self-regulation. He discusses the history of lifelong learning in Japan, grassroots efforts to create an entrepreneurial self, community schools that also function as centers for problem solving, vocational education, and career education.
Continuing education --- Neoliberalism --- Neo-liberalism --- Liberalism
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ISBN: 1438457863 9781438457864 Year: 2015 Publisher: Albany : SUNY Press,
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Year: 1970 Publisher: Tokyo, : Ship Research Institute,
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Ocean waves. --- Oceanography --- Winds.
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ISBN: 9780367406806 9781032237763 Year: 2021 Publisher: London Routledge
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Japan --- Civilization. --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Politics and government.
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ISBN: 1003256805 1000605418 1000605493 1003256805 1032188855 1032188871 Year: 2022 Publisher: Milton Taylor & Francis Group
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ISBN: 0367406802 0367821494 1000054209 Year: 2020 Publisher: Routledge
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ISBN: 9783839425206 9783837625202 Year: 2014 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag
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