Osamu Nakano is the Vice Executive Director of the Japan Workers’ Cooperative Union (JWCU). He joined JWCU in 2014 and has served as a board member and Director of International Relations since 2017.
Osamu has also been the President of CICOPA Asia and Pacific and Vice President of CICOPA since 2021. He has represented the worker cooperative movement at numerous international forums, including events by the United Nations, ILO and ICA.
Osamu has published extensively on cooperative movements and the social and solidarity economy. His recent work includes a chapter titled “Platform Cooperatives: Toward the Citizen-Centered Digital Platform Economy” in Decoding Platform Capitalism (Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2023). He was a visiting researcher at Tokyo University from 2019 to 2021.
