Socially responsible business in Japan: the role of the corporate sector in social development

The few last decades have seen more and more large companies in industrialized countries undertaking philanthropic activities within their business activities. In the United State these activities were established as part of business culture many decades ago. For example, American corporations have donated for the development and improvement of local community positively. Because in the United States, if you denied such kind of activities, you are no longer to be estimated as leading company (Tanaka 1989:81). For most of them, it has become natural common idea that business have to do some contributions to the society where they can do business.