Kazuaki (Aki) Okabe
Associate Professor at Toho Gakuen University (Nonprofit Management) since
April 2001. Before that, he was a long time free-lance journalist based
in San Francisco, the United States, introducing American nonprofit activities
to Japan. He wrote six
books and co-authored seven others on civil society and nonprofit organizations.
His most recent book, From San Francisco: Social Change NPOs (Ochanomizu
Shobo, 2000), received 2001 Research Award from Japan Consumer Cooperative
Institute. The book introduced advocacy nonprofits in the San Francisco
Bay Area, which uniquely present a combination of social activism of the
area and the innovative entrepreneurship of Silicon Valley. Beside writing,
he widely speaks and consults for nonprofit audiences/clients. In
last several years, he organized more than 20 exchange tours for Japanese
nonprofit leaders to learn from the American nonprofit sector, as well
as three lecture series in Japan inviting American nonprofit experts. His
English web site (Nonprofit
Japan) is a unique source for information on the nonprofit sector in
Japan. Born in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan in 1950. Graduated from Meiji
University in Tokyo (B. A., Western History) and University of California
at Berkeley (B. S., Conservation of Natural Resources).
Kazuaki (Aki) Okabe
Dept. of Community Business, Toho Gakuen University
3-11 Heiwaga-oka, Meito-ku, Nagoya 465-8515, Japan
Phone: 011-81-52-782-1530, Fax: 011-81-52-781-0931
okabe@nagoya-toho.ac.jp
Home Page (Japanese): http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~okabe/