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Accountability in Asia
Japan Perspective
Tomoyuki Hashimoto
The Nippon Foundation
CANPAN Project

2. ・The Nippon Foundation and CANPAN project
・Japanese Non-profit organization
・Culture of “Donation” in Japan
・NPO’s Accountability in Japan
Presentation

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About The Nippon Foundation
Established in 1962
Active in more than 100 countries to date
In partnership with 40,000 non-profit organizations
Making grants to more than 4,000 projects annually
Annual grant 25 billion JPY
(≒250 million USD)
Funds are from proceeds of
Motorboat Racing.

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Supporters
-corporations,
individuals
Community website
Blog service for NPOs
Credit-card donation
platform for NPOs
NPO database(14,000)
Rating of NPOs★★★
Civil society
supporting cycle
CANPAN project as Japanese NPO’s platform

5. New platform “Facebook donation”
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Click
button for
Facebook
donation

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1.Japanese Non-profit Organization

7. 1.Japanese Non-profit organization
(1)Public Interest Corporation
• 110 years of history
• Public Interest Corporation Reform
• 3 laws were enacted in 2006
• 25,000 Public Interest Corporation as of today

8. 1.Japanese Non-Profit Organization
(2)Non Profit Organization
• Around 1980s, volunteer activities began active
• In 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake
occurred, “the First Year of Volunteers”
• In 1998, “Non-profitable Activities Promotion Law”
was enacted and Japanese NPOs were born.

9. Supporters
-corporations,
individuals
Community website
Blog service for NPOs
Credit-card donation
platform for NPOs
NPO database(14,000)
Rating of NPOs★★★
Civil society
supporting cycle
CANPAN project as Japanese NPO’s platform
CANPAN project and Japanese NPOs

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2.Culture of “Donation” in Japan

11. 2. Culture of “Donation” in Japan
(1) Tax benefit organization
(2) People tend to think “government’s role”
(3) Virture of “secret good deeds”
~ Tiger Mask Movement ~
(3) After the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake, culture of
“donation”is changing!

12. 2. Culture of “donation” in Japan
(3)Japanese people are shy…
Ex)Tiger-Mask Movement(2011/1)

13. 2. Culture of “donation” in Japan
(3)Japanese people are shy…
Ex)Tiger-Mask Movement(2011/1)
Donation tends to be annonymous…

14. 2.Culture of donation is changing
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3.NPO’s Accountability in Japan

16. NPO’s Accountability in Japan
(1) “Non-profitable Activities Promotion Law” requires
reporting…
Project Report

17. NPO’s Accountability in Japan
(1) “Non-profitable Activities Promotion Law” requires
reporting…
Financial Report
“Balance Sheet”
“List of Property”“Statement of revenues
and expenditures”

18. NPO’s accountability in Japan
(1) “Non-profitable Activities Promotion Law” requires
reporting…
but NOT ENOUGH!! Information lacking
• Outcome of the project
• Evaluation
• Internal governance
• Law Compliance
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(2)CANPAN’s challenges ahead
• Activist’s awareness for information disclosure is still
weak…
Promoting NPO’s awareness for
accountability in a broad sense
• Japan’s “culture of donation” just began!
Create a new NPO’s platform for
facilitating the new “cuture of donation”

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