Aya Okada, Yu Ishida, Takako Nakajima, Yasuhiko Kotagiri
Despite a long history, the organized field of research on voluntaristics in Japan has emerged only in the past two decades. This article presents a comprehensive review of voluntaristics research in Japan through an overview of past studies and recent hot topics. Nonprofit sector and voluntary action research, now termed voluntaristics (Smith, 2016), is reviewed here using four approaches: organizational, economic, employment, and charitable giving. Discussion of recent changes in the political-legal environment for nonprofit agencies and associations as well as of collaboration among...
Despite a long history, the organized field of research on voluntaristics in Japan has emerged only in the past two decades. This article presents a c...
