Collaborative Environmentalism in Japan

Hasegawa, Koichi

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Koichi Hasegawa⁵

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1.
I discussed the political and social background of the 1998 NPO law using the concept of “social expectation.” See Hasegawa et al. (2007).
2.
Visit the web site of the Cabinet Office of the Japanese government (http://www.npo-homepage.go.jp/data/bunnya.html, Accessed April 30, 2009). Each organization may appear in multiple activity categories.
3.
The third reactor is now under construction and the trial operation will start in December 2009.

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National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku), Senri Expo Park 10-1, Suita, Osaka, 565-8511, Japan
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Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Kyoto, 610-0394, Japan
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Hasegawa, K. (2010). Collaborative Environmentalism in Japan. In: Vinken, H., Nishimura, Y., White, B., Deguchi, M. (eds) Civic Engagement in Contemporary Japan. Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1504-7_5

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