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Community Volunteers in Japan: Everyday stories of social change

Community Volunteers in Japan: Everyday stories of social change

Nakano, Lynne

Paperback

Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop

General Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415546060
ISBN13: 9780415546065
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 1 2009
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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