Community Volunteers in Japan: Everyday stories of social change (Japan Anthropology Workshop)

Community Volunteers in Japan: Everyday stories of social change (Japan Anthropology Workshop)

by Lynne Nakano (Author), Lynne Nakano (Author)

Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 14 Aug 2009

ISBN 10: 0415546060
ISBN 13: 9780415546065

Author Bio
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.