NPO Recovery Support for Foreign Residents after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake: A Case Study of Takatori Community Center in Kobe

Yoko Matsuda and Teruyuki Kume
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Yoko Matsuda: School of Economics, University of Hyogo
Teruyuki Kume: Department of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University

Japan Social Innovation Journal, 2012, vol. 2, issue 1, 72

Abstract: This is an ongoing study investigating how the NPO Takatori Community Center has been supporting foreign residents in the community since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. The authors have, so far, interviewed its three directors and one staff member. Some of the findings are: the importance of community oriented activities, joint ventures of the plural leaders, and multicultural mediating power.

Keywords: Earthquake; Recovery Support; NPO; Foreign Residents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Y20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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