Japan has a standard framework for local communities, neighborhood associations, which
request all households in the same residential district to belong to one community unit that …

The concept of civil society inspires, irritates, or confounds depending on the context and
whose judgment is brought to bear. l Civil society consists of sustained, organized social …

One of the problems of the civil society debate for anthropologists and other social scientists
is the persistent dualism of state and society. This dualism lends rhetorical power to an …

Since the collapse of the bubble economy in the early 1990s, machizukuri groups and
processes have spread widely throughout Japan. The term machizukuri translates literally …

Society in Japan is becoming super-aged while depopulation and deindustrialisation are
also progressing at the same time. Different regions face different challenges, and the …

Civil society in every country has taken different courses of development, and each of them
has its own characteristics largely influenced by that country's social frameworks. The main …

Older sections of Japanese cities often are divided into well-defined neighbor? hoods.
These are not simply bureaucratic devices (such as postal districts or police precincts) with …

The size and quality of civil society organizations are key measures of a democracy's health.
Associational life in any country can be approached theoretically from three different angles …

Since the mid‐1990s Japanese society has entered a period of major change. The previous
patterns of social order and social integration have collapsed, and it has become …

The city, urbanisation and the city system are essential elements for understanding the
spatial structure and the economic development of a country. A wellorganised urban …