Solidarity Economy in Japan |
Enhancing the Culture of Self-management in the Milieu of Local Civil Societyby Kyoko Mataki This article aims to introduce and examine the experiments of workers' collectives in Astugi City, Kanagawa Prefecture. The project of workers' collective in Atsugi began in 1982 through the initiatives of 128 women. Read more |
Women's Initiatives in Community Businessby Inoue Reiko Potential forces for Solidarity Economy in Japan include consumer cooperatives, worker collectives, NPOs providing social services to the aged, handicapped, and sick, and mutual pension and insurance systems.Read more |
Leaf-Business by aged women in rural villageby Tadaaki Ooe This is Kamikatsu town in Tokushima Prefecture, the Eastern edge of the Shikoku island region of West Japan--partly facing the Pacific Ocean and close to Osaka. It usually takes 1 hour 45 minutes to get there from Tokushima Station, Read more |
Homeless Charity fights hopelessness
|