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Civic Engagement in Contemporary Japan

Established and Emerging Repertoires

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Editors:
  1. Henk Vinken

    1. National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku), Suita, Osaka, Japan

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  2. Yuko Nishimura

    1. Komazawa University, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

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  3. Bruce L. J. White

    1. Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Kyoto, Japan

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  4. Masayuki Deguchi

    1. National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku), Suita, Osaka, Japan

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  • Insider's look at civic engagement in Japan, with a background in Western scholarship
  • Interdisciplinary contributors cover the field comprehensively
  • Covers both established, mainstream organizations and emerging trends
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies (NCSS)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introductory section

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Henk Vinken, Yuko Nishimura, Bruce White
      Pages 3-20

    3. Civil Society in Japan: Democracy, Voluntary Action, and Philanthropy

      • Makoto Imada
      Pages 21-40

    4. Social Frameworks for Civil Society in Japan: In Search for a Japanese Model

      • Chimaki Kurokawa
      Pages 41-64

  3. Established forms of engagement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 66-66
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    2. The Rising Voice of Japan’s Community Unions

      • Charles Weathers
      Pages 67-83

    3. Collaborative Environmentalism in Japan

      • Koichi Hasegawa
      Pages 85-99

    4. A New Epoch of Immigration for Japan: Directional Shift in Civic Organizational Support for Newcomer Settlement

      • Tetsuo Mizukami
      Pages 101-116

  4. Engagement outside the mainstream

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 118-118
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    2. Civic Engagement and Community Development Among Japan’s Burakumin

      • Yuko Nishimura
      Pages 119-138

    3. “I’m Deaf. This is Sign. Get Used to It.” Sign Language in Japan: The Vision and the Struggle

      • John C. Maher
      Pages 139-152

    4. Media and Civic Engagement in Japan

      • Gabriele Hadl
      Pages 153-169

  6. Concluding section

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 226-226
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    2. Conclusions: From Politicization to Culturalization of Civic Engagement

      • Henk Vinken, Isabelle Diepstraten
      Pages 227-238

    3. Epilogue: Toward a New Legal Form for Civic Engagement

      • Masayuki Deguchi
      Pages 239-246
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About this book

Civic engagement is a concept of action that has become part of common vocabulary, not only in the West but also in many other regions of the world as well. A growing, yet still small number of scholarly works has recently emerged showing how in Japan citizen activism, volunteering, and social action for a public cause are dev- oping. This present volume is another, and in my view, important addition to the body of knowledge on civic engagement in Japan. The majority of books on related issues in Japan take on the perspective of organized civic life, in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) or nonprofit organizations (NPOs): we know quite a number of things about the quantitative trends in these organizations, on their positioning, on their difficulties, and on the institutional contexts in which they have to work. We know relatively little – except for a small number of topical qualitative case studies – on broad issues that relate to civic engagement in Japan, inside or outside these formal organizations. This volume is the first to offer a wide scope of broad variety of forms of civic engagement in contemporary Japan. The volume is quite forceful in counterbalancing oversimplified ideas on an “ideal” civil society in which state, market, and civil society organizations are in- pendent and at best take on oppositional stances.

Editors and Affiliations

  • National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku), Suita, Osaka, Japan

    Henk Vinken, Masayuki Deguchi

  • Komazawa University, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

    Yuko Nishimura

  • Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Kyoto, Japan

    Bruce L. J. White

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