The Rising Voice of Japan’s Community Unions

Abstract

With a variety of contributors from throughout Jap; involved in a range of both established and emergi; NPOs; to other less mainstream organizations; the Editors have compiled a comprehensive volume t; Established forms of civic engagement include labo; and resident and citizens’ movements dating back c; Japan has seen a rise in third sector groups that; especially grassroots community organizations. Fro; to underground media; the authors of this volume closely examine Japans’; The lessons gleaned from the successes and shortco; but also the emergence of third sector organizatio; what does not work as well; and what organizational structures are possible.