2019 Volume 19 Issue 1+2 Pages 91-99
The new public-interest corporation system in Japan began in 2013, and the institutional operation of general corporations and public-interest corporations was started. This paper used the results of the questionnaire survey for all general corporations and public-interest corporations in Iwate prefecture, Miyagi prefecture, Fukushima prefecture, and clarified the composition of general corporations and public-interest corporations from the viewpoint of scale, degree of nonprofit, relationship with old system and government agencies, response to social tasks by example of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Based on these results, this paper aims to obtain suggestions on future research and measures. The composition of current general corporations and public benefit corporations is a mixture of public-interest corporations based on large asset containing about 40% of organizations that experienced affiliated organizations and relatively small general corporations. The nonprofit type general corporation accounts for a large proportion of organizations newly established in response to social issues. The nonprofit type general corporation should be evaluated as a powerful instrument for groups of people who respond to future social issues and their property and this result raises the problem of incentive design to become a public interest corporation.
