Japanese social enterprise: triumph in the face of adversity

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Japanese social enterprise: triumph in the face of adversity

Claudia Cahalane looks at the role social enterprise is playing in Japan, and how the sector responded to the nuclear disaster in FukushimaSocial enterprises and civil society in Japan appear to have flourished in the wake of natural disasters. According to Nana Watanabe, founder of the Japanese arm of social entrepreneurship foundation Ashoka, it was The Great Hanshin (Kobe) earthquake in 1995 that first really mobilised civil society in Japan.