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The Japan NGO Center for International Cooperation (JANIC) is a non-profit, non-partisan networking NGO founded in 1987 by a group of NGO leaders who saw the need to better coordinate activities in Japanese society and facilitate communication with overseas groups...

This is a list of 278 Japanese NGOs whose overseas activities contain poverty reduction, educational support, medical and healthcare services, environmental protection, relief and emergency assistance for refugees etc. It is based on the Japanese edition of the "Directory of Japanese NGOs concerned with International Cooperation 2002" published by JANIC in April of 2002. And new report of it inserted in JANIC's Japanese Website
(http://www.janic.org/directory/)(Japanese only).

Background of the Growth of Japanese NGOs

Cultural background: (inward looking Japan)

For historical and cultural reasons, the Japanese NGOs/Citizens/Non-profit sector (referring to the citizens organizations engaged in international cooperation) used to be smaller and less advanced than those in western developed countries. This issue is rather...

Japan NGO Center for International Cooperation (JANIC)
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Please note that JANIC is not a funding agency. We do not accept any proposals or requests for financial support.



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