The State of Civil Society in Japan

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This book is about associational life and the public sphere in Japan. Its purpose is to survey the subject in a systematic, interdisciplinary, and theoretically informed way and to bring the study of civil society in Japan into the mainstream of the Western literature on the subject.

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The State of Civil Society in Japan by Frank J Schwartz

For all the obstacles that remain, civil society is burgeoning in Japan, and the idea of civil society is at the core of the current debate about how to reinvigorate the country. This book gathers the insights of American and Japanese scholars from the fields of political science, sociology, social psychology, and history to investigate the nature of associational life and the public sphere in Japan. It goes beyond assessing the condition of civil society to explore the role of the state in shaping civil society over time, and its broad, comparative framework is useful for thinking about civil society not just in Japan, but elsewhere in the contemporary world. Given its wealth of original research and the uniform strength of its individual chapters, this book will appeal to a broad audience of social scientists, practitioners, and policy-makers.
'This impressive and wide-ranging collection of essays explores the problems and potential of Japan's increasingly robust civil society … The scope and high quality of the 15 chapters make this an important and rewarding book with wide appeal' The Japan Times
'The contributors' insistence on analyzing the interplay between the state and civil society, rather than studying the spheres in isolation, is a valuable framework … the book is a major step toward understanding the complexity of Japan's civil society, especially the interplay of society and the state.' The Asahi Shimbun
Susan J. Pharr is the Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics in the Department of Government, Harvard University. She is also Director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
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ISBN 13 9780521534628
ISBN 10 0521534623
Title The State of Civil Society in Japan
Author Frank J Schwartz
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2003-10-20
Number of pages 416
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