JCIE Publications | Globalization, Governance, and Civil Society
A Global ThinkNet Conference report, this book examines topics related to globalization’s impact on governance, as well as the growing role of civil society organizations in improving the governance of domestic societies and the international community.
JCIE Publications | How Electoral Reform Boomeranged
These essays present research and insight concerning the first general election in Japan’s House of Representatives since the passage of a political and electoral reform law in 1994.
JCIE Publications | The Role of Non-State Actors in International Affairs
This publication is a collection of four articles that Tadashi Yamamoto, founder and president of JCIE, has written about the growth of the nonprofit sector’s role since JCIE’s founding 1970; also included is an article written by a close colleague, Yoichi Funabashi.
JCIE Publications | Global Action for Health System Strengthening: Policy Recommendations to the G8
This report was submitted to the Japanese and Italian governments in January 2009 for consideration for the 2009 G8 Summit agenda.
JCIE Publications | Philanthropy and Reconciliation
This study reflects upon the efforts of both American and Japanese civil societies to rebuild the US-Japan relationship in the postwar period, in hopes to understand the past and find a way to improve post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation in the future.
JCIE Publications | Japan’s Response to the Spread of HIV/AIDS
This survey report, commissioned by the Open Society Institute (OSI), discusses how various actors in the public and private sectors in Japan have been addressing the domestic and global spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
JCIE Publications | Human Security in the United Nations
This field study was conducted on five human security projects in order to propose common elements that should be included in human security projects on the ground, as well as to highlight the design and implementation challenges.
Civil Society Monitor | Special Edition (September 2012)
Friendship Across Borders: Nearly 100 US Sister City Organizations Raise Relief Funds for Japan
Civil Society Monitor | Law to Promote Specified Nonprofit Activities
An unofficial translation of the law, with major changes indicated.
Civil Society Monitor | Issue 9
• New Fundraising Initiatives Seek to Bolster Growth of Nonprofit Sector
• Weak Funding Environment Sparks Local-Level Efforts to Support NPOs
• Initial Report on Public Interest Corporation Reforms Stirs Further Debate