An academic from Komazawa University in Tokyo has been studying the UK’s cooperative sector in the hope it will lead to the development of workers cooperatives in Japan, Co-operative News reported on 14 April.
Part of the project has involved translating the Worker Co-operative Code of Governance—updated in 2012 by Co-operatives UK Limited—which outlines the tools and techniques utilised in some of the UK’s most successful co-ops.
According to the researcher, Noriko Matsumoto, “It is important for [those] Japanese entrepreneurs who now choose to form workers’ cooperatives to know that there is the same movement in the UK”.