Over the last decade, popularity of NGOs in Japan has grown rapidly and drastically after their heroic rescue mission in a site of the Great Awaji-Hanshin Earthquake in 1995 attracted wide media coverage. Acknowledging their popularity in the society, the Japanese government has named them as partners under Japanese official foreign aid strategy called Kao no Mieru Enjyo (Visible Japanese Aid) by establishing cooperative system for them in 1989. However, the initial intentions of the government was to utilise their good reputation to secure credibility for Japanese aid, which has long been...
Over the last decade, popularity of NGOs in Japan has grown rapidly and drastically after their heroic rescue mission in a site of the Great Awaji-Han...
