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    Akihiro Ogawa
    Department of Japanese Studies, Stockholm University
    Ph.D., Assistant Professor Working on research projects that primarily address political development in Japan and East Asia, with civil society as an anthropological lens. The research program is a grounded analysis of practices and values expressed by local actors in the context of civil society. The first book project, which was recently completed, is an ethnographic study of a Japanese voluntary organization, the Non-Profit Organization (NPO), the seed of the institutionalization of civil society under the 1998 NPO Law. The major contribution of the first project is to fill a substantive gap in the current civil society scholarship. Most of the work in the field contains normative theoretical formulations with Western intellectual origins. The book remedies these points as an original ethnography, bringing Japan’s civil society experiences squarely into the global discourse on civil society. This book, "The Failure of Civil Society?: The Third Sector and the State in Contemporary Japan", will be forthcoming from the State University of New York Press. The second topic, lifelong learning, builds on the previous research done on Japanese NPOs, where Akihiro Ogawa has participated at an NPO providing lifelong learning opportunities to local residents of a downtown Tokyo community since 2001. Akihiro Ogawa has been keenly aware of domestic debates on Japanese lifelong learning policies and the conditions under which they are held. Doing comparative research on Nordic countries where lifelong learning is deeply rooted in daily life, this project primarily aims to offer a transnational perspective in developing Japan’s lifelong learning. As a larger project as a scholar, Akihiro Ogawa also looks at grassroots participation in one of the most vital policy concerns in contemporary East Asian and global politics – the revision of Japan’s constitution, particularly focusing on Article 9, which articulates Japan’s pacifism.
    http://www.akiogawa.net/
    Keywords: Civil society, Conflicts. Terrorism, East Asia, Education, Japan, Nordic Perspective, Peace-building, Person, Politics and society, Sweden,
     
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NIAS LINC, Leifsgade 33, 2, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark. Phone: +4535329510. E-mail: bib@nias.ku.dk   Admin
University of Aalborg, University of Aarhus, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen University
Univerisity of Jyväskylä, University of Tampere, University of Turku, Helsinki School of Economics, HANKEN - Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration
University of Iceland, University of Akureyri
University of Bergen, University of Oslo, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norwegian School of Economics and business Administration, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Göteborg University, Stockholm University, Uppsala University, Lund University, Royal Institute of Technology, Swedish School of Advanced Asia Pacific Studies