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Community Service - Links

Information about the Japanese nonprofit sector in English

The changing face of NGOs in Japan http://www.gdrc.org/ngo/jpngo-face.html

The Japanese System of Incorporation and the Concept of NPOs http://www.gdrc.org/ngo/jp-civil-society.html

Exploring the Realities of Japanese Civil Society through Comparison, by Yutaka Tsujinaka, Jae-Young Choe, Takafumi Ohtomo, ASIEN 105, October 2007 http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/5/2/0/1/pages252011/p252011-1.php

The Public Service Governance in Japan: Is an NPO an Agent or a Partner? Kosuke OYAMA www1.biz.biglobe.ne.jp/~iam/httpdocs/pdfdownloads/athens01-paper2.pdf

Civil society and contemporary interest groups in Japan, by Yutaka Tsujinaka and Robert Pekkanen, Public Affairs Fall 2007, http://faculty.washington.edu/pekkanen/Tsujinaka%20Pekkanen%20Pacific%20Affairs%202007.pdf

Religion and Civil Society in Contemporary Japan by Helen Hardacre
http://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/SHUBUNKEN/publications/jjrs/pdf/699.pdf


Nonprofit and Volunteer Support Organizations in Japan
The Japan NGO Center for International Cooperation (JANIC) http://www.janic.org/
Tokyo Voluntary Action Center:  http://www.tvac.or.jp/english/index.html
NPO support center NPORT URL:http://www.nport.org/
CSO Network http://www.csonj.org/english/
C’s NPOWEB http://www.npoweb.gr.jp/
Japan NPO Center http://www.npo-hiroba.or.jp/
Osaka Voluntary Action Centre http://cwlzaq.ne.jp/osakavol/english/index.html
Japan Centre for International Exchange http://www.jcie.or.jp/

Women’ groups in Japan
Asia Japan Women’s Resource Center http://www.ajwrc.org/english/sub/aboutus.html
National Committee for UNIFEM, Japan http://unifemnihon.jp
Yokohama Women’s Association for Communication and Networking (YWACN)
http://www.women.city.yokohama.jp/english/newsletter/index.html
National Women’s Education Centre http://www.nwec.jp
Dawn Centre http://www.mydome.or.jp/dawn/
The Center for the Advancement of Working Women http://www.miraikan.go.jp

Women’s Organizations overseas
Lists of organizations: Women in development
http://library.duke.edu/research/subject/guides/ngo_guide/ngo_links/women.html
Lists of organizations: Groups working on gender based violence
http://www.stopvaw.org/Women_s_NGOs9.html
Lists of organizations: Women’s rights NGOs
http://www.derechos.net/links/ngo/issue/women.html
Lists of organizations: Women’s by country
http://www.distel.ca/womlist/womlist.html


Help lines
TOKYO ENGLISH LIFE LINE (TELL, in English) 03-5774-0992 http://www.telljp.com/
Centro de Consultas para Mujeres (CCM) Horario: de Lunes a Sábado, de 10:00 a 17:00 (ESPAÑOL y PORTUGUES) TEL: 090-8001-4695

Inochi no denwa (Japan Life Line)
Tokyo:     03-3264-4343(in Japanese)
Kanagawa   045-335-4343 24 (in Japanese)
Kanagawa   045-336-2477 (in Spanish)
Kanagawa   045-336-2488 (in Portuguese)
Saitama   048-645-4343 (in Japanese)
Chiba   043-227-3900http://www.chiba-inochi.jp/
Full listing of all call centers throughout Japan (in Japanese)
http://www.find-j.jp/zenkoku.html

CENTRO DE AYUDA PARA ESTRANGEROS EN JAPON (Spanish)
http://viviendoenjapon.redtienda.net/cat.php?id=132253

General Information & Resources
Action Without Borders http://www.idealist.com
Civicus http://www.civicus.org
Charity Navigator http://www.charitynavigator.org/
Volunteer Mgt . Resource Kit - Volunteering Queensland http://www.volunteeringqueensland.org.au/forms/vol%20man%20resource%20web%20kit.PDF
Volunteer Mgt Audit The Canadian Code for Volunteer Involvement
http://volunteer.ca/files/CodeAuditTool07EN.pdf
What is a Non-Governmental Organization?
http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/p.willetts/CS-NTWKS/NGO-ART.HTM
Nonprofit Mgt help http://www.managementhelp.org/index.html
How to build a good small NGO http://www.networklearning.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=56&Itemid=52
Nonprofit good practice guide http://www.npgoodpractice.org/