It's a big year in Japan for civil society organizations:

• This Jan. => Japan takes over the G8 chair

• J tax revenue starts dropping
• Nonprofit NGOs need to keep government focus
• Halfway point of MDGs

• ICCPR review
  

• May => TICAD meeting in Yokohama

• July => G8 in Hokkaido, G8 NGO forum
• Indigenous People’s Forum in Hokkaido
  

Expect to read more hear about what is going on!