NPO law was enacted in 1998 with the strong support of the public opinion. Japanese citizens were inspired by the relief activities by the citizen's voluntary and the grass routs organizations in the disaster site of the massive earthquake in Kobe in 1995, while the quasi-governmental organizations and the government did not work efficiently. The public opinion accelerated establishment of NPO law. As a result, the diet passed the proposal of NPO law unanimously. On March 11. 2011. Japan experienced the more massive earthquake and tsunami that broadlycovered the east side of Japan. And then, the citizen's volunteerism is being flowered again. The amount of charitable giving exceeded within two months that of giving for Kobe. The applicants of the volunteer relief workers increased at the beginning stage. However, I am wondering whether NPOs are being play a role to coordinate effectively those citizen's volunteerism and willingness into relief work like the grass routs organizations in the event of Kobe. As of establishment of NPO law in 1998, the most NPOs are not active with respect to raising charitable giving and volunteer coordination while they are actively working with the government. We may find of its major reasons in the governmental policy. In this essay. I will review the basic theory of the private nonprofit organizations and will explain the current state of the Japanese nonprofit sector with comparison of that theory. Is it remarkable that 50% of NPOs do not collect charitable giving from the citizens and that 20% of them do not collect the volunteers. Consequently. I will analyze 15-year the governmental policy of NPO and will point out the reason why the government stifled NPO's volunteerism. Finally. I will recommend what the government should do and not to do. However, the most significance is that how the NPOs by themselves reconstruct the relationship with the citizens through giving and volunteering.
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