Resources
Organizations
English websites of major national- and metropolitan-level organizations supporting Japanese nonprofits in various measures
- The Japan Association of Charitable Organizations (JACO)
- Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE)
- Japan Foundation Asia Center
- The Japan Foundation Center
- Japan NGO Center for International Cooperation (JANIC)
- NPO Support Center
- Tokyo Voluntary Action Center
- Osaka Voluntary Action Center
- Japan NPO Research Association (JANPORA)
JNPOC Partners Outside Japan
- CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation
- JNPOC is an associate member of AGNA (Affinity Group of National Associations).
- CSR360 Global Partner Network (CSR360 GPN)
- JNPOC is a core partner.
- TechSoup
- JNPOC is the Japanese partner which runs the program of TechSoup Japan.
- Myriad USA
- JNPOC serves as the Japanese country advisor.
- Give2Asia
- JNPOC serves as the Japanese country advisor.
Books on Japanese Civil Society
Selection of relevant publications on Japanese nonprofits/civil society
Aldrich, D. (2010)
Site fights: Divisive facilities and civil society in Japan and the West
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press
Avenell, S. (2017)
Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press
Avenell, S. (2010)
Making Japanese Citizens: Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
Ducke, I. (2007)
Civil society and the internet in Japan
London: Routledge
Haddad, M. (2007)
Politics and volunteering in Japan: A global perspective
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Hasegawa, K. (2004)
Constructing Civil Society in Japan: Voices of Environmental Movements
Melbourne, Victoria: Trans Pacific Press
Hirata, K. (2002)
Civil Society in Japan: The Growing Role of NGOs in Tokyo’s Aid Development Policy
New York: Palgrave Macmillan
Kage, R. (2011)
Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan: The Revival of a Defeated Society
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
Kingston, J. (Ed.). (2014)
Critical issues in contemporary Japan
Routledge
Nishide, Y. (2009)
Social capital and civil society in Japan
Sendai: Tohoku University Press
Ogawa, A. (2009)
The failure of civil society? the third sector and the state in contemporary Japan
Albany: SUNY Press
Osborne, S. (2003)
The voluntary and non-profit sector in Japan: The challenge of change
London: Routledge
Pekkanen, R. (2006)
Japan’s dual civil society: Members without advocates
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press
Pekkanen, R., Smith, S., & Tsujinaka, Y. (Eds.). (2014)
Nonprofits and advocacy: Engaging community and governance in an era of retrenchment
Johns Hopkins University Press
Reimann, K. D. (2010)
The Rise of Japanese NGOs: Activisms from Above
New York: Routledge
Schwartz, F. (2003)
The state of civil society in Japan
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Sorensen, A. (2007)
Living cities in Japan: Citizens’ movements, machizukuri and local environments
London: Routledge
Book Chapters on Japanese Civil Society
Kuroda, K. & Ishida, Y. (2017)
CSR in Japan: Towards Integration and Corporate-CSO Partnership (Chapter 12). In S. Hasan (Ed.), Corporate social responsibility and the three sectors in Asia: How conscious engagement can benefit civil society (pp. 45–71)
New York: Springer International Publishing
Okuyama, N. & Yamauchi, N. (2016)
Giving in Japan: The Role of Philanthropy in Strengthening Civil Society (Chapter 24). In P. Wiepking & F. Handy (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of global philanthropy
London: Palgrave Macmillan
Journal Articles on Japanese Civil Society
Avenell, S. A. (2010)
Facilitating spontaneity: The state and independent volunteering in contemporary Japan. Social Science Japan Journal, 13(1), 69–93.
Deguchi, M. (2016)
Globalization, glocalization, and Galapagos syndrome: Public interest corporations in Japan. International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law, 18(1), 5–14.
Ishida, Y. & Okuyama, N. (2015)
Local charitable giving and civil society organizations in Japan. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 26(4), 1164–1188.
Kawashima, N. (2001)
The emerging nonprofit sector in Japan: Recent changes and prospects. The Nonprofit Review, 1(1), 5–14.
Okada, A., Ishida, Y., Nakajima, T., & Kotagiri, Y. (2017)
The state of nonprofit sector research in Japan: A literature review. Voluntaristics Review, 2(3), 1-68.
Okada, A., Ishida, Y., & Yamauchi, N. (2017)
Effectiveness of social media in disaster fundraising: Mobilizing the public towards voluntary actions. International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age, 4(1), 49–68.
Okura, S. & Kaigo, M. (2016)
Who leads advocacy through social media in Japan? Evidence from the “tsukuba civic activities cyber-square” facebook page. Information, 7(4), 66–77.
Onishi, T. (2007)
Japanese fundraising: A comparative study of USA and Japan. International Journal of Education Advancement, 7(3), 205–225.
Ouchi, M. (2004)
Charitable giving in Japan: A comparative study of Japan and the United States. The Nonprofit Review, 4(1), 39–52.
Schwartz, F. (2002)
Civil society in Japan reconsidered. Japanese Journal of Political Science, 3(2), 195–215.
Shaw, R. & Goda, K. (2004)
From disaster to sustainable civil society: The Kobe experience. Disasters, 28(1), 16–40.
Taniguchi, H. (2013)
The influence of generalized trust on volunteering in Japan. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 42(1), 127–147.
Taniguchi, H. (2010)
Who are volunteers in Japan? Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly., 39(1), 161–179.
Tsujinaka, Y. & Pekkanen, R. (2007)
Civil society and interest groups in contemporary Japan. Pacific Affairs, 80(3), 419–437.
Special thanks to Dr. Aya Okada for providing additional bibliography information on Japanese civil society.