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    Japan adopts Workers Co-operatives Act

    The act provides a legal form for worker co-operatives

    4 months ago
  • Legal

    Japan House of Representatives to discuss new Worker Cooperatives Act

    The act provides a legal form for worker co-operatives

    10 months ago
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    Covid-19: Updates from 31 March

    The latest responses from around the world

    1 year ago
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    Bridging divides in health: community-based health promotion in Japan

    Co-operatives have been pioneering voluntary preventive health practice since the 1960s

    1 year ago
  • Japan typhoon relief
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    Co-ops step in to help Japan recover after typhoons Hagibis and Faxai

    Consumer, financial, insurance and forestry co-ops have all responded to the disasters

    1 year ago
  • Environment

    The state of retail: Japanese consumer-run co-op takes the sustainable route

    'We have been creating the materials we need for our daily life through collaboration ... and have been solving social problems through collective purchase'

    2 years ago
  • Agriculture

    Farm co-op uses solar powered ‘Super Monster Wolf’ to protect crops

    The animatronic beast lets out terrifying howls to scare wild boar away from rice and chestnut farms

    3 years ago
  • Agriculture

    Japan federation of agri co-ops to set up subsidiary in Hong Kong

    The country’s co-op movement has also reorganised under a new cross-sectoral umbrella organisation

    3 years ago
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    Co-ops’ head offices are among the most beautiful buildings in the world

    From the Co-op Group’s innovative Manchester HQ to Desjardins in Canada with its living wall, the movement is setting new architectural standards

    4 years ago
  • Health

    Health co-ops “create a peaceful and lively society”

    In a Q&A with the International Health Co-operative Organisation, Dr. Toshinori Ozeki, vice-president of the IHCO and the Japanese Health and Welfare Co-operative Federation (HeW Coop), talks about what the world can learn from Japan’s...

    5 years ago
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