Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of evaluation in the Japanese NPO policy to enhance the NPO's essential function of citizenship creation. Citizenship creation is the term created by P.F. Drucker to explain the importance of citizen participation through donating and volunteering in the NPOs in the era of the knowledge society. The year 2008 is the ten year anniversary of NPO law' in Japan. This paper indicates the current and most serious problem of the sector is that the NPOs do not make good relationships with their supporting entities such as donors and volunteers.
Evaluation will contribute to solving this citizenship creation problem. This paper reviews each evaluation activity of individual stakeholders surrounding the NPO sector and examins the public support test (PST) as a consensus of those stakeholders' evaluation. Finally a revision of the tax and NPO policy based on that PST system is suggested.
