TY  - GEN
T1  - The failure of civil society? : the third sector and the state in contemporary Japan
A1  - Ogawa, Akihiro, 1968-
LA  - English
PP  - Albany
PB  - SUNY Press
YR  - 2009
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocn365410052
AB  - 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.
OP  - 271
CN  - HD2769.2.J3 O35 2009eb
SN  - 9781441607782
SN  - 1441607781
SN  - 0791493954
SN  - 9780791493953
SN  - 9780791494035
SN  - 0791494039
SN  - 9780791493960
SN  - 0791493962
KW  - Nonprofit organizations : Japan.
KW  - Nonprofit organizations : Government policy : Japan.
KW  - Civil society : Japan.
KW  - Non-governmental organizations : Japan.
KW  - Associations sans but lucratif : Japon.
KW  - Associations sans but lucratif : Politique gouvernementale : Japon.
KW  - Société civile : Japon.
KW  - Organisations non gouvernementales : Japon.
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Corporate & Business History.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - Civil society
KW  - Non-governmental organizations
KW  - Nonprofit organizations
KW  - Nonprofit organizations : Government policy
KW  - Japan
ER  -