Core Activists, Ideas, and the Development of Citizen Activism in Postwar Japan
Author: Simon Andrew Avenell
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 348
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Author: Simon Andrew Avenell
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Simon Andrew Avenell
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2010-09-08
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0520947673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaking Japanese Citizens is an expansive history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial role in shaping civil society and civic thought throughout the broad sweep of Japan's postwar period. Weaving his analysis around the concept of shimin (citizen), Simon Avenell traces the development of a new vision of citizenship based on political participation, self-reliance, popular nationalism, and commitment to daily life. He traces civic activism through six phases: the cultural associations of the 1940s and 1950s, the massive U.S.-Japan Security Treaty protests of 1960, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the antipollution and antidevelopment protests of the 1960s and 1970s, movements for local government reform and the rise of new civic groups from the mid-1970s. This rich portrayal of activists and their ideas illuminates questions of democracy, citizenship, and political participation both in contemporary Japan and in other industrialized nations more generally.
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 612
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 778
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: K. Hirata
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2002-09-05
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781349386895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCivil Society and Japan's Foreign Aid examines the changing relations between the Japanese state and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in promoting effective aid policies and analyzes the changing nature of policy making and governance in Japan. It is based on extensive research in Southeast Asia and Japan, investigating the role of Japanese aid in fields such as education, health care, environmental protection, and economic development. It analyzes the key players in aid policymaking, including donor governments, multinational organizations, international and local NGOs, the business community, and aid recipients.
Author: David Chiavacci
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-02-21
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1351608134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores social movements and political activism in contemporary Japan, arguing that the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident marks a decisive moment, which has led to an unprecedented resurgence in social and protest movements and inaugurated a new era of civic engagement. Offering fresh perspectives on both older and more current forms of activism in Japan, together with studies of specific movements that developed after Fukushima, this volume tackles questions of emerging and persistent structural challenges that activists face in contemporary Japan. With attention to the question of where the new sense of contention in Japan has emerged from and how the newly developing movements have been shaped by the neo-conservative policies of the Japanese government, the authors ask how the Japanese experience adds to our understanding of how social movements work, and whether it might challenge prevailing theoretical frameworks.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Haffner
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2009-03-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0857286854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the fast changing modern world where does Japan fit in, and how should it relate to the United States and China? Three foreign commentators make a provocative and persuasive argument that the time has come for Japan to help build a stronger Asian community, and to become an engage and conscientious global citizen.
Author: Erin Aeran Chung
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-03-31
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780521514040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJapan is currently the only advanced industrial democracy with a fourth-generation immigrant problem. As other industrialized countries face the challenges of incorporating postwar immigrants, Japan continues to struggle with the incorporation of prewar immigrants and their descendants. Whereas others have focused on international norms, domestic institutions, and recent immigration, this book argues that contemporary immigration and citizenship politics in Japan reflect the strategic interaction between state efforts to control immigration and grassroots movements by multi-generational Korean resident activists to gain rights and recognition specifically as permanently settled foreign residents of Japan. Based on in-depth interviews and fieldwork conducted in Tokyo, Kawasaki, and Osaka, this book aims to further our understanding of democratic inclusion in Japan by analyzing how those who are formally excluded from the political process voice their interests and what factors contribute to the effective representation of those interests in public debate and policy.
Author: André Sorensen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-08-07
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1134143192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the last fifteen years local citizens' movements have spread rapidly throughout Japan. This volume examines the growth and nature of civil society participation in local urban and environmental governance.