The State of Civil Society in Japan

by Edited by Frank J. Schwartz , Susan J. Pharr

• ISBN13: 9780521827300
• ISBN10: 0521827302
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-20
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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. The only volume of its kind, 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.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures	vii
Contributors	ix
Preface	xiii
Susan Pharr
Introduction: Recognizing Civil Society in Japan	1	(22)
Frank Schwartz
PART I: CONTEXT
1 What Is Civil Society?	23	(19)
Frank Schwartz
2 From Meiji to Heisei: The State and Civil Society in Japan	42	(21)
Sheldon Garon
3 Capitalism and Civil Society in Postwar Japan: Perspectives from Intellectual History	63	(20)
Andrew Barshay
PART II: THE ASSOCIATIONAL SPHERE
4 From Developmentalism to Maturity: Japan's Civil Society Organizations in Comparative Perspective	83	(33)
Tsujinaka Yutaka
5 Molding Japanese Civil Society: State-Structured Incentives and the Patterning of Civil Society	116	(19)
Robert Pekkanen
6 After Aum: Religion and Civil Society in Japan	135	(19)
Helen Hardacre
7 State-Society Partnerships in the Japanese Welfare State	154	(21)
Margarita Estévez-Abe
PART III: THE NONMARKET ACTIVITIES OF ECONOMIC ACTORS
8 Redefining the Conservative Coalition: Agriculture and Small Business in 1990's Japan	175	(20)
Robert Bullock
9 The Death of Unions' Associational Life? Political and Cultural Aspects of Enterprise Unions	195	(19)
Suzuki Akira
10 The Struggle for an Independent Consumer Society: Consumer Activism and the State's Response in Postwar Japan	214	(21)
Patricia Maclachlan
PART IV: STATE-CIVIL SOCIETY LINKAGES
11 Mobilizing and Demobilizing the Japanese Public Sphere: Mass Media and the Internet in Japan	235	(22)
Laurie Freeman
12 A Tale of Two Systems: Prosecuting Corruption in Japan and Italy	257	(24)
David Johnson
PART V: GLOBALIZATION AND VALUE CHANGE
13 Trust and Social Intelligence in Japan	281	(17)
Yamagishi Toshio
14 Building Global Civil Society from the Outside In? Japanese International Development NGOs, the State, and
International Norms	298	(39)
Kim Reimann
15 Conclusion: Targeting by an Activist State: Japan as a Civil Society Model	316	(21)
Susan Pharr
Bibliography	337	(39)
Author Index	376	(3)
Subject index	379