International Social Service Japan (ISSJ) is a non-profit organization that helps individuals, children and families confronted with complex social welfare issues because of migration and crossing country borders.
In 1952, in order to help war orphans and mixed race children, The Japan-American Joint Committee for the Assistance of Orphans was established in Tokyo. Then in 1959, from the Ministry of Health and Welfare (now known as the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare), the organization was authorized as a social welfare service corporation.
We also joined the International Social Service (ISS) network, and have been the Japanese branch. The ISS is a worldwide NGO and international social welfare professional organization with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and is the advisory organization to The United Nation.
Not only with other branches of ISS, but we also work with various concerned governmental agencies, courts, hospitals, welfare institutions, and schools. Our counselling is handled by experienced social workers who study social work and/or psychology.
Organization
| Name | International Social Service Japan ISSJ(Social service welfare agency) |
| Location | Ochanomizu K&K Building 3F1-10-2 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0034 Phone：03-5840-5711 FAX：03-3868-0415 access |
| Predecessor | Japan-America Joint Committee for the Assistance of Orphans (1952) |
| Establishment | 15 September 1959 （Accredited by the Ministry of Health and Welfare） |
| Corporation Status | 15 September 1959(Accredited as a social service welfare agency) |
| Contents | ・Adoption ・Stateless Children ・Refugees ・International Divorce |
| Membership | Corporative members 3 Individual members 150 |
| Chairman | Satoshi Nagasaka |
| Articles of association and regulations | 定款・定款細則 ガバナンス・コンプライアンスに関する規定 |