Explores the trend of lifelong learning in Japan as a means to deal with risk in a neoliberal era.
Akihiro Ogawa explores Japan’s recent embrace of lifelong learning as a means by which a neoliberal state deals with risk. Lifelong learning has been heavily promoted by Japan’s policymakers, and statistics find one-third of Japanese people engaged in some form of these activities. Activities that increase abilities a...(Read More)
The Failure of Civil Society?
(March 2009)
The Third Sector and the State in Contemporary Japan Akihiro Ogawa - Author
2010 Japan NPO Research Association Book Award
A look at the voluntary sector in Japan, which has emerged strongly only in recent years.
The 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, ...(Read More)
