This book documents how Asian civil society organizations, which have traditionally been observed to imitate or borrow the methods employed by Western nongovernmental organizations, have been developing distinctive relations with the state, inventing novel civic techniques. Furthermore, it highlights how such organizations have created a characteristic framework for governance and spaces for new social practices and reflections. From the Contents: 6. Domestic violence, sex abuse, and civil society in Japan (Machiko Osawa and Jeff Kingston); 13. Civil society and the state in making a wartime history: History of Japanese women repatriated from Manchuria (Mayuko Itoh).