'Multicultural studio' offers hope: Yokohama volunteers help kids with studies, social problems Volunteer worker Hideki Hayakawa and his staff, mainly college students, opened the "multicultural studio," extending support to local junior high and high school students with non-Japanese, mostly Vietnamese, cultural backgrounds at the Icho Danchi public housing complex in Yokohama. Kanagawa Prefecture is home to about one-third of the Indochinese who have settled in Japan since the late 1970s. Japan Times, Nov. 28, 2002.
Center for Multicultural Information and Assistance We are a group which supports foreigners living in Japan. Founded shortly after the Great Hanshin Earthquake, we have been offering help and advice to the foreign community.
United for a multicultural Japan An organization working to promote the welfare and legal rights of non-Japanese with Japanese spouses, and other long-term or permanent residents of Japan.
Citizen’s Network for Japanese Filipino Children We are a non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Tokyo. We support Japanese-Filipino Children (JFC) who are born to Filipino mothers and Japanese fathers.
The Development Action for Women Network (DAWN) is a non-government development organization created on February 6, 1996 to assist Filipino women migrants in Japan and their Japanese-Filipino children (JFC) in the promotion and protection of their human rights and welfare.
Multicultural Center Tokyo organizes and implements programs for people with multicultural backgrounds,mainly designed for children and women. We strive for a multicultural society where differences in nationalities,languages, and cultures are respected, so that we can share in a diverse and enriched community. A major activity is helping non-Japanese children learn Japanese.
Center for Multicultural Information and Assistance (in English)/多文化共生せセンター （ 日本語）"We are a group which supports foreigners living in Japan. Founded shortly after the Great Hanshin Earthquake, we have been offering help and advice to the foreign community mainly around Osaka....our activities include: telephone counseling, medical assistance, support to the foreign media, support for migrant children as well as seminars and fieldwork."
Multicultural Center Tokyo (in English) / 多文化共生センター東京（日本語）”Multicultural Center Tokyo organizes and implements programs for people with multicultural backgrounds, mainly designed for children and women”, in three areas: education, child-rearing and multicultural understanding. It runs a 'Multicultural Free School' to "support children from other countries who wish to go to Japanese high school with Japanese language study".
The Solidarity Network with Migrants (Japan) is the NGO aiming at creating a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural society with migrant workers and citizens of foreign nationality.
Roberts, G. S. (2003). 'NGO support for migrant labour in Japan, in M. Douglass & G. S. Roberts (Eds). Japan and global migration: foreign workers and the advent of a multicultural society. London; New York: Routledge. Available from Chuo Library総合政策 325.252/J35 & Mike.
Migrant Support Organizations in Japan – A Survey by Gabriele Vogt & Philipp Lersch In this paper we pose two main research questions: How successful are MSO in Japan when it comes to actually improving the living and working conditions of foreigners? And how successful are MSO in Japan when it comes to political advocacy for foreigners? German Institute for Japanese Studies, 2007.