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civic responsibility research
civil society engagement
Community Volunteers
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Delinquents
Elementary School
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everyday volunteering social change
Foot Path
gakkai
grassroots activism
Home Care Services
Home Helpers
intergenerational support
Junior High School
Juvenile Crime
Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
karaoke
Karaoke Contests
Long Term Care Insurance
Long Term Care Insurance System
Low Income Housing Residents
lunch
neighborhood
Nihon Keizai Shinbun
Paint Thinner
parties
PTA Mother
PTA President
Published School Yearbooks
qualitative fieldwork
social participation Japan
soka
Soka Gakkai
True Hearts
welfare
Welfare Center
Working Class Ethic
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415323161
- Weight: 530g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Volunteering is a recent and highly visible phenomenon in Japan, adopted as a meaningful social activity by millions of Japanese and covered widely in the Japanese media. This book, based on extensive original research, tells the stories of community volunteers who make social change through their everyday acts. It discusses their experiences in children's activities, the parent-teachers association, juvenile delinquency prevention campaigns, and care of the elderly. It explores their conflicts and their motivations, and argues that personal decisions to volunteer and acts of volunteering, besides being personal choices, are productive of larger discussions of the needs and directions of Japanese society.
Lynne Y. Nakano is an Associate Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. An anthropologist by training, her main areas of research include self-identity, gender, mass media and popular cultre. She is currently researching gender issues in Hong Kong and Japan.
