Analyse du renouveau militant de la société civile japonaise. Le mouvement des sans-abri de Shinjuku à Tokyo

摘要

In this research paper I analyze Japanese civil society's activism rebirth in contemporary Japan, an until now poorly developed approach despite impressive theoretical development both in the United States and in Europe and the presence, for more than twenty years in Japan, of an "anti-poverty" movement strengthened by the recent world wild crisis. To understand the major characteristics of this rebirth, and distinguish it from the traditional "inhabitant movement", I focused on the Shinjuku Renraku Kai (SRK), one of the oldest and nowadays major organizations that supports the very poor. I argue that new Japanese activism has two major features : from an organizational point of view, there is a pluralistic base of recruitment with a central role played by "external" supporters, many of them belonging to the extreme left. From a strategic point of view, an evolution in the repertory of action has been witnessed with a systematic use of Media to facilitate communication with the authorities.