February 23, 2007
Genron NPO's English Pamphlet: Now Online!
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Find out More About Genron NPO. Our brand new pamphlet, "In Your Hands Lies the Power to Change the Course of this Country", gives you up-to-date information about our organization and its work. It includes a chronological history of our activities, the philosophy that governs our work and information about our future goals. Click below to find out more... |
June 01, 2000
About Us
Genron NPO is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating forums for responsible, productive debate about Japan's future—the kind of discussion that today's Japanese mass media are failing to provide. To achieve this, Genron NPO has created a new network of opinion leaders from industry, academia and government. Our members are corporate executives, journalists, government officials, economists, and scholars and researchers from many fields who are committed to engaging in serious debate.
The discussions facilitated by Genron NPO bypass pointless arguments and useless criticisms, aiming instead to generate concrete proposals addressing political and administrative issues. We pursue this goal by holding politicians accountable for envisioning and implementing policies, as well as by constructively bringing issues to the attention of voters. At the same time we assess and monitor how the government and political parties put policy into effect. We promote a sense of urgency among voters about political matters, and offer constructive prescriptions for securing a positive future for Japan. Genron NPO intends to expand its network beyond Japan, to open up serious and constructive discussions that reach the rest of Asia and the world.
The objective of Genron NPO is to be an independent and well-managed non-profit think tank that can create a new information medium based on dialogue among a network of individuals, and use this medium to discuss the issues facing Japan and generate policy solutions.
Existing media and think tank organizations are limited by structural and commercial constraints. We believe that by rejecting these established models and creating a new medium, a discussion network of individual opinion leaders, we can play a major role in revitalizing Japan's public discourse.
Genron NPO is the first organization in Japan to create a network bringing together individual intellectuals, thought leaders and experts. We hope to develop along the lines of US organizations that use this model, such as the Council on Foreign Relations.
Members of the Policy Forum Conferences are able to join in the discussion by exchanging opinions over the Internet. A free email magazine is distributed to members and non-members alike, and currently reaches 2,500 subscribers.
Genron NPO's most important tool for disseminating information is the premium quality magazine Genron NPO. It is distributed to members and available for sale to the public at bookstores. The magazine are currently issued in Japanese only.
A quarterly publication, it is packed with highlights from discussions in Policy Forums and at the website as well as policy perspectives from Genron NPO and essays and opinions focused on specific themes. It is an opinion journal of outstanding quality that only this NPO can offer.
